Synod 2021 – 2023: Bishop John Arnold’s address to Oxford and Cambridge Chaplaincies
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...
The Feast of the Conversion of St Paul – final day of the Octave of Prayer for Christian Unity
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...
Newman Society’s Mass of Thanksgiving 2020 – homily by Fr Matthew Power SJ
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...
Bishop John Arnold’s homily on the occasion of the Academic Mass and Centenary of the Oxford University Catholic Chaplainy at the Old Palace
My dear Brothers and Sisters……. This isn’t the way it was planned! Virtual meetings and celebrations are certainly a great scientific advance, but it is not the same as meeting in person, and praying together in the celebration of Mass. In this unprecedented time,...
‘Newman’s Secret’
Fr Nick King’s Homily for the Feast of St John Henry Newman Let me start with two pictures: The first is on Sunday afternoons in the 19th Century here in Oxford; you see large numbers of undergraduates making their way up St Aldates, or across the Broad or Cornmarket,...Holiday Accommodation Oxford City Centre
Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy
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| Fr Matthew Power SJ, Fr Keith McMilan SJ, Fr Nick King SJ, Fr Ian Tomlinson SJ, and Becky Short |
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