by Alvea Fernandes | Nov 5, 2021 | Homilies, News, Mass
One of my fondest memories from my time as a graduate student in the 1990’s was sitting in Teddy Hall – St Edmund Hall – Middle Common Room talking with fellow students. Looking back on the conversations, I expect that I would disagree with some of what I...
by Alvea Fernandes | Oct 17, 2021 | Synod, Homilies, Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, News, Mass
Pope Francis has called on us all to engage in the discernment of the future direction of the Church, in a Universal Synod. Our Gospel values remain consistent, from age to age, just as Jesus is “the same yesterday, day and forever” and is the “Way, the Truth and the...
by Alvea Fernandes | Oct 9, 2021 | Mass, Covid-19, Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, News
AMDG 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗘 Thank you to all who took part in our recent COVID response survey. We hope that what’s proposed below will reassure those of you who are keen to minimise the risk of infection and encourage others that we hope to be as free of restrictions as we...
by Fr Matthew | Jan 25, 2021 | Prayer, Formation, Homilies, Mass, Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, Gospel Reflections, News, Past Events
AMDG We end today the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity. I think it is true to say that of all the years that I have been here in Oxford (admittedly not at all that very many) this year the week has featured more prominently. Perhaps in this time of shared...
by Alvea Fernandes | Jan 5, 2021 | Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, News, Mass, Covid-19, Coming Up, CathSoc/Newman Society, This Week
AMDG After the Prime Minister’s announcement last night, many of you might be wondering what the next few weeks and months will hold. Please be assured that we will do our best at the Chaplaincy, along with the Newman Society, to support virtually all of you who...
by Alvea Fernandes | Nov 29, 2020 | Homilies, Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, News, Mass, CathSoc/Newman Society, Newman
A hundred years ago, very roughly, the Newman Society began meeting in what we now know as the Blue Room. Sometime in 1920, the then University Catholic Chaplain, Mgr. Arthur Stapylton Barnes, generally known as the Mugger, moved into the Old Palace, a property that...