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• ▼ 2013
  • ▼ May
    • Archbishop Longley to bless new Oratory building
    • Abbot of Farnborough to Preach for St Philip's Day
    • Three Saints in Birmingham
    • Corpus Christi Procession in the Year of Faith
    • Fr Michael Barber SJ to be Bishop of Oakland
    • St Philip's Day, 2013
    • Binsey Poplars
    • Sponsored Walk through the Great Glen
  • ▼ Apr
    • Young Oratory Speakers in Hull
    • Legion of Mary
    • New Building: Week 59
    • Respice de Caelo, Sancte Pater
    • New Building: Weeks 56-58
    • New Building: Weeks 53-55
    • Divine Mercy
    • Happy Easter
    • Oratory Team in National Final
  • ▼ Mar
    • Holy Week 2013
    • This year's Paschal Candle
    • New Building: Weeks 51-52
    • Habemus Papam!
    • Prayers for the Conclave
    • Holy Hour for Conclave
  • ▼ Feb
    • Thank you, Holy Father
    • The Man Who Knew Those Who Knew Chesterton
    • Pilgrimage for Beatification of Ven. Salvio Huix i Miralpeix (the first Oratorian Martyr)
    • Window restored
    • Donating by Text Message
    • New Building: Shower Trays
    • New Building: Weeks 45-49
    • Praying for the Pope
    • Evangelium
    • Victory for the Oratory
    • Day of Prayer for the Church
    • Costa Rica Coast to Coast Cycle
  • ▼ Jan
    • Parish Priest's Report 2012
    • Evangelium Course to begin in Lent
    • Mass of Inscription
    • Epiphany Procession and Benediction
    • New Building: Week 44 - Ceiling
    • Seminarians from St Paul Minnesota
    • More pictures from the Reception of the Sisters
    • The Reception into full Communion with the Catholic Church of the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• ▼ 2012
  • ▼ Dec
    • The Fathers and Brothers of the Oratory wish you a happy and a holy Christmas
    • Rorate Mass 2012
    • Wantage Sisters to become Catholics
    • New Building: Weeks 36-39 - November
    • Tota Pulchra es Maria
  • ▼ Nov
    • Costa Rica Coast to Coast Cycle
    • Confirmations
    • Father Dominic and St Philip's School in Rome
    • New Building: Weeks 32, 33 and 34 - Reaching the top
    • Women's Oratory Pilgrimage to Rome
    • Filipino Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Oxford
  • ▼ Oct
    • Solemnity of All Saints
    • Church Break-in
    • New Building: Weeks 30 and 31 - Roof tiles
    • The Forty Hours 2012
    • The Year of Faith begins Today
    • Visit of Choir from Mayfield
    • Bricks - the results
    • New Building: Week 29 - Inside
    • Walking to church
  • ▼ Sep
    • A new Oratory in Bavaria
    • New Building: Week 28 - Roof
    • Newman Night Walk
    • New Building: Weeks 26 and 27 - Half way!
    • News from the Congresso
    • A new Oratorian Bishop
    • New Building: Week 25 - Carrying on
    • Trip to Sezincote
    • New Parish Priest
  • ▼ Aug
    • New Building: Week 24 - Higher and higher
    • Dedicated Gifts - a clarification
    • New Building: Week 23 - New Doorway
    • New Building: Weeks 21 and 22 - On the third floor
    • New Building: Week 20 - Wood and Concrete
  • ▼ Jul
    • Father Edoardo Cerrato named as Bishop of Ivrea
    • Dedicated Gifts: Sponsor a bedroom
    • Bricks!
    • New Building: Week 19 - Second floor
    • New Building: Week 18 - Taking in the views
    • Another Visit by the Prefect of the Vatican Library
    • St Aloysius' School Arts Festival
    • Catholic Women's League Celebrates 150 years since the birth of its founder.
    • New Building: Week 17 - Digging Holes and Climbing Ladders
    • La visite des évêques
    • New Building: Week 16 - First floor
  • ▼ Jun
    • Homily for St Aloysius' Day by Fr Michael Holman SJ
    • New Building: Week 15 - Going up!
    • New Building: Week 14 - Ceiling
    • Corpus Christi Procession 2012
    • New Building: Week 13 - Walls
    • Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
    • New Building: Week 12 - Parish Office
  • ▼ May
    • New Building: Week 11 - Office taking shape
    • Solemnity of our Holy Father Saint Philip
    • New building: Week 10 - More bricks
    • A new performance of the Dream of Gerontius
    • New Building: Week 9 - Bricks
    • Solemn Mass for the English Martyrs
    • New Building: Week 8 - Floors and walls
    • Canonical Visitation
    • Robert Hardy in Dream of Gerontius at Oxford Oratory
  • ▼ Apr
    • New Building: Week 7 - A hole in the wall
    • A Cardinal Patron
    • New Building: Week 6 - Asbestos and Stairs
    • The Parish Census - Some Statistics
    • Campaign Total: £2,124,734.23
    • New Building: Week 5 - Drains and Bricks
    • Priest received at St Aloysius' died on the Titanic
    • 2012 Paschal Candle
    • Information Functions
    • New Building: Week 4 - Pumping Concrete
    • New Campaign Website
    • New Building: Week 3 - Still digging
  • ▼ Mar
    • Times for Holy Week 2012
    • Loyal Address to Her Majesty the Queen - presented by the Archbishop of Westminster on behalf of the Catholic Church of England and Wales on the Occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of her Reign.
    • Ex ore infantium et lactentium
    • New Building: Week 2 - Foundations
    • New Building: Week 2 - Diggers!
    • New Building: Week 1
    • The blessing of the Building Site
    • Lent Scripture Meditations
    • Blessing the building work
  • ▼ Feb
    • Oratory team in Public Speaking Competition
    • Breakfast with the Grand Master
    • Information functions and Campaign total
    • Work to start on Church Revamp
    • Over £2m raised! More restoration in Church!
    • New Building to start soon
    • Parish Priest's Report 2011
  • ▼ Jan
    • Parish Census
    • Fr Gregory Winterton RIP
    • Solemn Profession at St Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde
    • Epiphany Chalk
    • Epiphany Benediction in Crib
• ▼ 2011
  • ▼ Dec
    • The Fathers and Brothers of the Oratory wish you a Happy and Holy Christmas
    • Pictures of this Year's Rorate Mass
    • Oratory Parishioner working in India
  • ▼ Nov
    • Blessing
    • Holy Communion
    • Ascendit in Jubilatione!
    • Our Father
  • ▼ Oct
    • Sacrament
    • Sacrifice
    • The Forty Hours 2011
    • The Offertory
    • The Gospel
    • Some more pictures of Father Nicholas's Ordination & First Mass
    • Fr Robert appointed as National Ecumenical Officer
    • Ordination and First Mass of Father Nicholas
    • The Priesthood
  • ▼ Sep
    • New novice clothed
    • Announcing the Word
    • Gloria in excelsis Deo
    • Confiteor
    • And with your spirit
  • ▼ Aug
    • «¡Esta es la juventud del papa!»
    • The New Translation of the Roman Missal
    • Three Oratories Walkers arrive home safely
    • World Youth Day Pilgrims prepare for departure
  • ▼ Jul
    • Wednesday Morning Group Trip
    • Mary Selwood RIP
    • St Benedict, Patron of Europe
    • Friday Abstinence - Why?
    • Legion of Mary Witness on Cornmarket
  • ▼ Jun
    • "There are no Pantomimes in June"
    • Some pictures of the 2011 Oxford Deanery Corpus Christi Procession
    • FIRST ORATORIAN BEATIFIED MARTYR
    • Bishop Kenney blesses new School building and launches Motto and Mission Statement
    • St Aloysius' Day 2011
  • ▼ May
    • St Philip's Day 2011
    • National Pastoral Letter on the new English Translation of the Roman Missal
    • St Philip's Day - Visit of the Papal Nuncio
    • Ossa Trombone Quartet Concert
    • Concert this Friday
    • John Paul II is beatified
    • Honouring John Paul II through Theatre
  • ▼ Apr
    • Royal Wedding "Street" Party
    • Photos from the Dress Rehearsal of The Quality of Mercy
    • The Liturgy of the Passion
    • Mass of the Lord's Supper
    • Receptions into the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
    • Royal Wedding Street Party *
    • 2011 Paschal Candle
    • Grand Master of the Order of Malta becomes Patron of the Oratory Reaffirmation & Renewal Campaign
    • A new play hails Pope John Paul II
    • Oratory Campaign Passes One Third of Target
    • Visit of Cardinal Mazombwe
    • Olympic Success for the Oratory
  • ▼ Mar
    • The Quality of Mercy - rehearsals and synopsis
    • Piano Recital
    • The Quality of Mercy - buy tickets now!
    • Saint Luigi Scrosoppi - Patron Saint of Footballers
    • Br Nicholas's Ordination to the Diaconate
    • Lord Patten at the Oratory
    • Apostolic Nuncio to celebrate St Philip's Day Mass
    • Jesus of Nazareth part II
    • Our Parish Lent Project 2011
    • Parking Charges in St Giles'
    • Lent & Holy Week 2011
    • OxCYP
  • ▼ Feb
    • Talk by Lord Patten
    • 'Gig' for World Youth Day
    • New Provost Elected
  • ▼ Jan
    • Parish Priest's Report 2010
    • Mea Culpa
    • World Youth Day - Madrid 2011
    • Father Andrew Burnham's First Mass
• ▼ 2010
  • ▼ Dec
    • Extra Times of Confession on Christmas Eve
    • London Oratory Carol Service
    • Rorate Mass
    • World Youth Day Pre-Christmas Festival
    • Sermon for the Immaculate Conception
  • ▼ Nov
    • Christmas & New Year Mass Times 2010
    • Jack Valero to speak at the Oratory
    • Women's Oratory presents cheque for the Campaign
  • ▼ Oct
    • Opening Mass of the Forty Hours
    • Blessed John Henry's first feast day
    • Father Dominic at St Philip's
    • FORTY HOURS 2010
  • ▼ Sep
    • Holy Father's Audience address (Wednesday 22 September)
    • Carpenter's hand-made box given to Pope
    • Pushkin and the Pope
    • Blessed John Henry Newman of the Oratory - Pray for us!
    • Relic of Newman is prepared for veneration
    • Welcome Holy Father!
  • ▼ Aug
    • The Camino to Santiago
    • Wednesday Morning Group on Rose Hill
    • Pilgrimage to Santiago
    • Dramatic Retreat at Minster
  • ▼ Jul
    • Wednesday Morning Group conquers new territories
    • Newman's Golden Nugget
    • OFSTED success for St Aloysius' School
    • Fr Joel Warden Visits from Brooklyn
    • Some pictures from the Oratory Summer Festival
    • Circumdederunt me sicut apes
  • ▼ Jun
    • Article in the Times
    • St Aloysius' Day 2010
    • Some more pictures of this year's Corpus Christi Procession
    • Who photographs the photographers?
    • Over 60s Group Trip to Woburn Abbey
    • Corpus Christi Procession 2010
    • Dedicated Gifts
    • Reaffirmation and Renewal Campaign reaches first Million
  • ▼ Apr
    • Archbishop Longley celebrates Solemn Pontifical Mass on third Sunday of Easter
    • Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes
    • Good Friday 2010
  • ▼ Mar
    • Paschal Candle
    • Palm Sunday
    • Divine Mercy Devotions
    • Papal Visit
    • Date of Newman's Beatification announced
    • 'God's Grandeur' at the Oxford Oratory
  • ▼ Feb
    • Feast of the Chair of St Peter
    • Parish Priest's Report 2009
    • Candlemas
  • ▼ Jan
    • Monsignor Graham Leonard RIP
    • Tercentenary of Blessed Sebastian Valfrè
    • Fr Gregory Mitchell of the Port Elizabeth Oratory
    • Epiphany Benediction in the Crib 2010
    • A White Epiphany!
    • Greetings to Fr Robert from the Procurator General
    • The Epiphany of the Lord - Silver Jubilee of Father Robert
• ▼ 2009
  • ▼ Dec
    • New Archbishop of Birmingham enthroned, 8th December
  • ▼ Nov
    • Immaculate Conception Novena
    • Baronius Lecture
    • Newly restored Relic Chapel
    • Forty Hours 2009
    • Deacon Jack Sullivan Visits the Oratory
    • Br Nicholas given Ministry of Acolyte
  • ▼ Oct
    • 22 Unforgettable Hours
    • More Pictures of the Visit of St Thérèse's Relics
    • Welcome Little Flower!
    • Oxford prepares for Relics visit with play at Oxford Oratory
    • Still more Divine Comedy Pictures
    • More photographs from the Divine Comedy:
    • New Archbishop of Birmingham
  • ▼ Sep
    • Papal Visit to Oxford?
    • Divine Comedy Rehearsals - latest pictures!
    • An Unusual View of our Church from the Radcliffe Observatory:
    • "Ubi Caritas" Award for Kathleen Watson
    • Fr Vincent O'Hara gives the first of three talks on the Little Flower
    • SAINT THERESE ARRIVES ONE MONTH FROM TODAY: On the 7th October
  • ▼ Aug
    • St George's, Victoria, Gozo
    • More Pictures from Divine Comedy Rehearsals
  • ▼ Jul
    • A scene from Rehearsals
    • Peregrinatio pro Christo
    • Lead Kindly Light
    • Newman to be Beatified
  • ▼ Jun
    • St Aloysius' Day
    • Even More Pictures of the Corpus Christi Procession
    • More pictures from the Corpus Christi Procession
    • Corpus Christi Procession 2009
    • Confirmation Mass
    • Father Dominic in Philadelphia
  • ▼ May
    • New Campaign Blog
    • Aid to the Church in Need
    • Solemnity of Our Holy Father Saint Philip
    • Apostolic Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
    • May - Month of Our Lady
  • ▼ Apr
    • Marriage Preparation Day
    • Divine Mercy Devotions
    • Oxford Oratory Reaffirmation and Renewal Campaign
    • The Fathers and Brothers of the Oratory wish you all a Happy Easter
    • The Easter Vigil - celebrated by Bishop William Kenney CP
    • Preparing the Church on Holy Saturday
    • Resurrexit sicut dixit!
    • Good Friday: Liturgy of the Lord's Passion
    • Mass of the Lord's Supper on Maundy Thursday
    • Chrism Mass
    • Paschal Candle
    • Lent Project