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 | Apr 18, 2021 | Coming Up, Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, News
Jesuits rarely stay in one place for very long and today at the end of the 11am Mass Fr Matthew passed on the sad news that, after their four years of wonderful service at the Chaplaincy, Frs. Nick and Ian are being asked by the Jesuit Provincial to take up new...
by Fr Matthew | Jan 25, 2021 | Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, Gospel Reflections, News, Past Events, Prayer, Formation, Homilies, Mass
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 | Mass, Covid-19, Coming Up, CathSoc/Newman Society, This Week, Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, News
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 | Mass, CathSoc/Newman Society, Newman, Homilies, Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, News
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...