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 | Mass, Synod, Homilies, Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, News
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 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 | 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...
by Catholic Chaplaincy | Oct 31, 2020 | Past Events, Centenary Celebrations, Prayer, Vocations, Homilies, Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, News, Mass
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,...
by Alvea Fernandes | Oct 12, 2020 | Newman, Homilies, Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, News, Mass
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,...