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This week in the Benefice
Sunday 14 January
The Baptism of Christ / The Second Sunday of Epiphany
8.00am – Holy Communion at St Giles’ (said, 1662 BCP)
10.30am – Parish Eucharist at St Margaret’s (sung, Common Worship)
10.30am – Holy Communion at St Giles’ (sung, Common Worship)
6.00pm – Epiphanytide Carol Service at St Margaret’s
Note that evening services at St Giles will resume on Sunday 21 January.
The pew sheets for the Sunday services above, with readings, prayers and details of the music, are published each Friday afternoon on this website.
Monday 15 January
5.30pm – Evening Prayer at St Giles’
8.00pm – Compline (Night Prayer) online
Tuesday 16 January
8.30am – Morning Prayer at St Margaret’s
5.30pm – Evening Prayer at St Giles’
Wednesday 17 January
Antony of Egypt, Hermit, Abbot, 356
Charles Gore, Bishop, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932
8.30am – Morning Prayer at St Margaret’s
5.30pm – Evening Prayer at St Giles’
Thursday 18 January
Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, spiritual writer, 1951
First Day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
8.30am – Morning Prayer at St Margaret’s
5.30pm – Evening Prayer at St Giles’
Friday 18 January
Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095
Second Day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
8.30am – Morning Prayer at St Margaret’s
9.00am – Little Fishes at St Margaret’s (for toddlers and parents)
5.30pm – Evening Prayer at St Giles’
Saturday 20 January
Richard Rolle of Hampole, Spiritual Writer, 1349
Third Day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
8.30am – Morning Prayer at St Margaret’s
10:00am – 4:00pm – Theology Study Day on St Gregory of Nazianzus at Ripon College, Cuddesdon – details below.
5.30pm – Evening Prayer at St Giles’
Sunday 21 January
The Third Sunday of Epiphany / Second Sunday after Epiphany
Fourth Day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
8.00am – Holy Communion at St Giles’ (said, 1662 BCP)
10.30am – Parish Eucharist at St Margaret’s (sung, Common Worship)
10.30am – Holy Communion at St Giles’ (sung, Common Worship)
3.30pm – Service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity at Wesley Memorial Church – details below.
6.00pm – Evening Prayer at St Margaret’s (said with hymns, 1662 BCP)
6.30pm – Evensong at St Giles’ (sung, 1662 BCP)
Epiphanytide Carol Service
All in the benefice are invited to an Epiphanytide Carol Service at St Margaret’s Church on Sunday 14th January at 6pm.
Service for Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
There will be a service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity at the Wesley Memorial Church in central Oxford on Sunday 21st January at 3:30pm: all are welcome.
Oxford University Jazz Orchestra & Imperial College Big Band
Jazz at St Giles’ presents a special one-off concert from OUJO and the IC Big Band, at St Giles’ Church on Saturday 3rd February at 7:30pm. Tickets available using the button below.
Candlemas Party at St Margaret’s
Tea & Talks at St Margaret’s Institute
St Margaret’s Institute’s current season of Tea & Talks continues on Wednesday 7th February at 1:30pm with a talk by Angela Findlay titled In my grandfather’s shadow: working through Germany’s legacy of trauma, shame and silence. They occur each month – see the full schedule by pressing the button below. Entry is £2 and includes tea and cake.
St Margaret’s Recipe Book
Eve Barsham and Sam Schad are putting together a St Margaret’s recipe book. We would love to have your recipes! They can be family favourites, recipes with a St Margaret’s connection, recipes devised by or associated with a particular person, recipes suitable for children to make, you name it! Please get in touch with Sam or Eve if you’d like to submit a recipe. The more the merrier! Thank you!
Unwanted wine or gin from Christmas?
Please do leave them with Jane at St Giles’, or in the church kitchen, for use at the upcoming Jazz at St Giles’ events: OUJO and IC Big Band on 3 February and Alyn Shipton’s New Orleans Jazz Friends on 11 May.
Supporting the Gatehouse
As most will know, one of the charities supported by St Giles’ is The Gatehouse, a registered charity and drop in community centre giving meals, clothes, computer access and general support for the vulnerable and homeless. There is also a valuable counselling service organised by our own Revd Anne Holmes.
As well as some financial contributions from the church, we can all help individually by donating items such as tinned and packeted food, or clothing items particularly requested by the Gatehouse, eg new men’s underwear/ pants; ( always required).
There is a new box in place near the kitchen, labelled ‘Gatehouse’ and all donations will be taken over weekly to the Gatehouse Centre in the parish rooms.
Please donate whenever you can.
Little Fishes
Course on Portuguese Buildings and Gardens
One of our congregation, David Boswell, is running a course at the Oxford University Department of Continued Education on The Buildings and Gardens of Portugal from the Romans to the Romantics at Ewart House in Summertown beginning on the 22nd January, on Mondays 2-4pm. It is open to all, and members of the congregation have enjoyed the course in the past – please click the button below for more information, or collect a leaflet at the back of the church.
New Children’s group at Christ Church Cathedral
Theology Study Days in Cuddesdon
Ecumenical Marian Pilgrimage Trust Pilgrimage to Walsingham
