by Alvea Fernandes | Jun 6, 2020 | Blog post, Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, News
It’s Saturday 6th June and the city is getting busier. Feels like a good moment to acknowledge how special it has been to experience Oxford’s beauty during the quieter days of Lockdown. We’ve so enjoyed the Meadows. And the winding streets, whose gentle curves and the...
by Alvea Fernandes | May 29, 2020 | Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, News, Blog post
I am not quite sure how we would have managed lockdown had it fallen mainly during Lent! As it is, we have had 7 weeks of the Easter Season; and alongside the encouragement that has given us to pray to rejoice as Christ rejoiced, we have also had some lovely events...
by Alvea Fernandes | May 25, 2020 | Homilies, Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, News, Easter
Greetings to you in Oxford – and wherever you are. I am really glad to be able to share this Mass with you even if it is from down here in central London! I am sure each one of you knows that this pandemic experience is going to have a major effect on your future....
by Alvea Fernandes | May 23, 2020 | Blog post, Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, News
Creativity has been flourishing in the Chaplaincy during lockdown! We painted eggs on Holy Saturday (a tradition Rasa grew up with in Lithuania). And with what beautiful results! There was candle-making with Alvea – it is wonderful to know we can now put all our...
by Alvea Fernandes | May 16, 2020 | Blog post, Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy, News
Like everywhere else in the University, the Chaplaincy is now very much online! Encouragingly, people seem to have been ‘with us’. Good Friday was the peak for our Livestreamed Masses/Services with well over a thousand ‘attending’. Since then our Sunday Mass numbers...