Subject: News from the University Church
News from the University Church
June 28th, 2024 at 2:00 pm BSTView onlineThee we adore, O hidden Saviour by The Revd Naomi Gardom I’m writing this full of grateful thanks to everyone who came and supported me at the ordination service on Sunday afternoon. It was wonderful to have so many people from the St ...
News from the University Church
June 21st, 2024 at 4:53 pm BSTView onlineSummer at the University Church by The Revd Canon Dr William Lamb Trinity Term has ended and so we now look forward to the Long Vacation. We often imagine that this is a relatively quiet period in the life of the University Church, but n ...
News from the University Church
June 14th, 2024 at 3:12 pm BSTView online Always be ready by the Revd Naomi Gardom Today the termly Bible study concluded our study of the First Letter of Peter. This is a comparatively short letter, only five chapters, which has allowed to spend time reflecting deeply on the i ...
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June 7th, 2024 at 3:55 pm BSTView online Walk in the ancient paths by the Revd Hannah Cartwright ‘Stand at the cross roads and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it and find rest for your souls’ (Jeremiah 6.16) As the TV debates hot u ...
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May 31st, 2024 at 3:57 pm BSTView online Give us this day our daily bread by the Revd Canon Dr William Lamb Bread has been a staple part of our diet for centuries. And yet we live in a society in which bread is increasingly a political issue. A loaf of bread in a local artisan ...
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May 24th, 2024 at 4:34 pm BSTView online God’s Pronounsby the Revd Naomi Gardom How do we refer to God? The standard answer to this is ‘he’ – it has become automatic for us to refer to God, both God in Trinity and in the person of Jesus Christ, as masculine, male. For ...
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May 17th, 2024 at 2:44 pm BSTView online When consonants go astrayby Patricia O'Neill Psalm 57 v 11 For your loving-kindness is as high as the heavensAnd your faithfulness reaches to the clouds My religious formation centered on the question ‘what does God want from me?’ I ...
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May 10th, 2024 at 3:54 pm BSTView onlineGod is gone up… now we wait. by the Revd Hannah Cartwright If the Ascension (which we celebrated on Thursday), were to have a soundtrack, for me it would be Finzi’s ‘God is gone up with a triumphant shout’ with its gloriously out ...
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May 3rd, 2024 at 5:00 pm BSTView onlineSongs of Ascent by the Revd Naomi Gardom I recently discovered that The Lark Ascending, Vaughan Williams’ immensely popular piece for violin and orchestra, was based on a poem of the same name by the Victorian poet George Meredith. T ...
News from the University Church (Errata)
April 26th, 2024 at 5:41 pm BSTView onlineThis Sunday - APCM, 12 Noon, Old Library This Sunday at 12noon in the Old Library, we will hold our annual parish church meeting (APCM). This is a special occasion in the year where we give an account of the year that's passed, look over ...