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This week in the Benefice
Sunday 21 January
The Third Sunday of Epiphany / Second Sunday after Epiphany (BCP)
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)
3.00pm – Oxfordshire Together for Humanity at Oxford Town Hall – details below.
6.00pm – Evening Prayer at St Margaret’s (said with hymns, 1662 BCP)
6.30pm – Evensong at St Giles’ (sung, 1662 BCP)
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 22 January
Vincent of Saragossa, Deacon, first Martyr of Spain, 304
Fifth Day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
5.30pm – Evening Prayer at St Giles’
8.00pm – Compline (Night Prayer) online
Tuesday 23 January
Sixth Day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
8.30am – Morning Prayer at St Margaret’s
5.30pm – Evening Prayer at St Giles’
Wednesday 24 January
Francis de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher of the Faith, 1622
Seventh Day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
8.30am – Morning Prayer at St Margaret’s
5.30pm – Evening Prayer at St Giles’
Thursday 25 January
The Conversion of Paul
Last 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 26 January
Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul
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 27 January
8.30am – Morning Prayer at St Margaret’s
5.30pm – Evening Prayer at St Giles’
Sunday 28 January
The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas) / Service for Christian Unity / Third Sunday After Epiphany (BCP)
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 – Evening Prayer at St Margaret’s (said with hymns, 1662 BCP)
6.30pm – Evensong at St Giles’ (sung, 1662 BCP)
Parish News
Lent discussion group
Claire has provided an overview of the series, which you can read below:
St Giles’ Gardening Group
We shall start again in February and as usual this is the third Saturday of the month from 10.30am to 12pm. HOWEVER we are ‘promised’ a sunny day with a higher temperature for next Saturday January 27th, so would like to kick off on this Saturday with an early Spring tidy up and pruning of the rose pergola outside the parish rooms. Please join us! Coffee and cake provided; all hands and general assistance most welcome. (Don’t forget your gardening gloves.)
Join us too for the RSPB Birdwatch 2024
We also need someone to record birdlife in our church graveyard for only one hour between 26 and 28th January. Don’t worry it’s very easy, even if you don’t know your blackbird from your magpie! We have the very simple chart to record numbers in, together with the pictures of all common birds. You can do this when the gardeners are working – more robins come out then! If 2 people volunteer, we can record in the north and south graveyards. – Helen
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
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!
Supporting the Gatehouse
As most will know, one of the charities supported by St Giles’ Church 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 in St Giles’, 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
Community News
Oxfordshire Together for Humanity
Oxfordshire Civic, Community and Faith Leaders Group is hosting this event, one of a series of national events being held across the country, on Sunday 21st January 2024 at Oxford Town Hall at 3pm – 5pm. The purpose of this event is to draw together Oxfordshire’s communities in friendship, understanding and peace. This takes the place of the previously planned Service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity at Wesley Memorial Church.
Holocaust Memorial Day
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.
Theology Study Days in Cuddesdon
Ecumenical Marian Pilgrimage Trust Pilgrimage to Walsingham
Comments
2 responses to “Weekly News: 21 – 28 January”
I can’t see any of the Bellringing News which I submitted to the Benefice Manager a few days ago. Please try to get into the next issue at least the announcement of the attempt to ring a full three-hour peal next Saturday morning 3rd Feb starting at 10:00.
Hi John,
This is last week’s issue – if you look at the news published on Saturday you’ll see the bellringing news in the Parish News section.
Thanks!