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October 2024

October Music
“That loving tender providence that never deserts those who trust in him”

September 2024

The Conversion of England
Maxim-ising Our Spiritual Life (10)
Maxim-ising Our Spiritual Life (9)
September Music
Maxim-ising Our Spiritual Life (8)

August 2024

Maxim-ising Our Spiritual Life (7)
Maxim-ising Our Spiritual Life (6)
Maxim-ising Our Spiritual Life (5)
Maxim-ising Our Spiritual Life (4)
August Music

July 2024

Maxim-ising Our Spiritual Life (3)
Maxim-ising Our Spiritual Life (2)
Maxim-ising Our Spiritual Life (1)
The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri
July Music
And on the seventh day…
Thy Kingdom Come

June 2024

A Meditation on Mark 10:17–22
Walking by faith and not by sight
Extraordinary Time
June Music
“You can only see properly with your heart.”

May 2024

St Philip & Corpus Christi
Spiritual Fruits
Funeral arrangements for Fr John Hunwicke
Our Lady at Pentecost
Life Begins At Forty
May Music
Easter goes on

April 2024

The Patronage of Saint Philip Neri
Favourite resurrection stories
“Always go forward; never look back.”
Go back to Jerusalem
April Music

March 2024

O Friend, on what errand hast thou come?
Our Restoration
St Aloysius Revealed: Restoring the lost murals of Gabriel Pippet
A Week of Prayer
Holy Week Schedule
How’s your Lent going so far?
March Music

February 2024

The Lenten Fast
Jerusalem
An Island in the Rain
February Music
The Growth of the Church
Oratory150: Plan of Works

January 2024

Respice finem
The Gentleman Saint
The Indies shall be your Indies
January Music
Troubled or rejoicing?
Sir John Stainer – The Crucifixion
2023
Concert: Sacred Treasures of Venice

December 2023

And is it true?
O Come Let Us Adore Him
Christmas Mass Times 2023
Ad litteram
December Events
He stoops down from on high
Tota pulchra
December Music

November 2023

Thy Kingdom Come
Envy
The Communion of Saints
Blessed Salvio Huix
November Music
Friends in heaven

October 2023

“Of ghouls and ghosts and long-leggedy beasties”
OYA 2023–2024
The law of praying (12): The law of living
The law of praying (11): Asking for pardon
St John Henry Newman: Theologian, Oratorian
St Luigi Scrosoppi
The law of praying (10): Remembering the dead

September 2023

October Music
The law of praying (9): Sharing in the heavenly altar
October Events
The law of praying (8): Looking up to heaven and back in time
The law of praying (7): Making God present
The law of praying (6): Negotiating with God
September Music

August 2023

The law of praying (5): Communicating with the Saints
The law of praying (4): Remembering the Living
The law of praying (3): Praying for the Church
The law of praying (2): Addressing the Father
The law of praying
August Music

July 2023

Saying Something to Someone
School’s out
Is God my God?
Let us not lose sight of Jesus

June 2023

July Music
Two different men, one same Faith
Flos paradisi
June Music
The Sacred Heart
Worship

May 2023

Courtesy
Vessel of the Holy Spirit
Look up to heaven
May Music
Crowns come in different sizes
Praying with words

April 2023

The Oratory Prayer Book
Found by God
Now we see as in a mirror, dimly
A new season
April Music
And suddenly it is Holy Week…

March 2023

Music for Holy Week
Charity
Hope
Faith
Temperance
March Music
Fortitude

February 2023

Justice
Prudence
Virtue
February Music

January 2023

Blessed Sebastian Valfrè
Saint Francis de Sales, Cong. Orat.
‘Go out into the whole world and proclaim the Good News’
From Country House Catholicism to City Church
2022
January Music
Benedict XVI

December 2022

Childlike innocence
An interruption to the routine
December Music
‘How good a thing it is to be a Son of St Philip’
‘Make straight the way of the Lord’

November 2022

Advent signs of the Kingdom
Our November Friends
‘Frosts and cold, O bless the Lord’
The Lateran Basilica
Blessed Salvio Huix
November Music
Mediocrity will not do

October 2022

Keep the light burning brightly
November Masses for the Departed
Marlene Dietrich and Saint Frideswide
The hem of his garment
A life explained only by faith in God

September 2022

October Music
It takes all sorts to make the Church
HM The Queen
How to pray (10)
September Music

August 2022

How to pray (9)
How to pray (8)
How to pray (7)
Oratory Groups Survey
How to pray (6)
How to pray (5)
August Music

July 2022

How to pray (4)
How to pray (3)
How to pray (2)
July Music
How to pray (1)

June 2022

Romanità
The Feast of God
Getting out of the way
The Silence of the Spirit
June Music
Cardinal Pell’s Sermon for St Philip’s Day
Our own Personal Pentecost

May 2022

Beauty
The Peace of God
Sunday Mass Obligation Restored
Paschal Joy
Our Lady in Eastertide

April 2022

May Music
A simple act of kindness
‘Then comes the end.’ (1 Cor. 15:24)
‘Go, and sin no more’
April Music

March 2022

The Passion
Scrupulosity
When to speak
A Rhymed Life of Saint Philip
Plenary Indulgence for the Canonisation Jubilee
Perfect Saints
Aid for Ukraine
Peace

February 2022

March Music
Particular times and particular places
In love with God
I confess to almighty God…
February Music
Candlemas and Hope

January 2022

Resolutions
Growth in holiness
2021
January Music

December 2021

Timing it right
Christmas Mass Times 2021
The Coming of Our Lord
Planning ahead
December Music
Decking the halls

November 2021

Making the effort
Visit of Cardinal Pell
‘Forgive and you will be forgiven’
Reflecting on Death
Solemn Mass for All Souls
November Music
Tony Cockshut RIP
Solemn Mass for All Saints
All Soul’s Night

October 2021

Relics
Wisdom
Push through and run
The English Aquinas
October Music
Amazement

September 2021

Angels’ Protection
Some more about prayer
Organ Scholar
The Sign of the Cross
September Music
Requiem Mass for Eileen Healy
The London Eucharistic Octave

August 2021

Eileen Healy RIP

July 2021

Rest
August Music
O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness
Changes to safety restrictions
Traditionis Custodes
God made it, God loves it, God preserves it
Give thanks in and for everything
July Music

June 2021

Ordinary Time
All or nothing?
Making use of distractions
Pastoral Letter
Distractions in prayer
Bishop Robert’s Sermon for St Philip’s Day
The human face of God’s love

May 2021

St Philip and the Holy Spirit
Praying with the same passion
Changes in restrictions from 17 May
Organ Scholar
The Oratory School Vacancy
Shouts of joy…trumpet blast?
Mary’s month of May
New Director of Music
May Music

April 2021

St Philip’s Patronage
The Early Church
Resurrection

March 2021

Holy Week Schedule
The Ceremonies of Holy Week
Music for Holy Week
Annunciation
Lent Project: Child 31
Nearly there
Lent Project: Love Reaches Everywhere
Forgiveness
Lent Project: Crisis in Ethiopia
Monuments

February 2021

Lent Project: The Vision of Mary’s Meals
Stations
Lent Project: Mary’s Meals
Dust and ashes
OYA: ‘But it’s Lent already!’
Chris Crouch RIP
Distractions
‘As the days grow longer, the cold grows stronger’

January 2021

Snow
Tidying up
Sacramental Preparation & Family Catechism
January Music (updated)
Safety Measures in Church
‘I’m only human’
January Music
2020

December 2020

The Dawn
Mass and Confessions this week
Thoughts from the library
Booking for Christmas Masses
Pointing to Christ
Current Church Opening Times
Walter Hooper RIP
December Music
Cycles and Opportunities

November 2020

Immaculate Conception Novena
Who are you?
A message from the Archbishop on the final IICSA report
Bringing to God what is
Friends with death
Current Church Opening Times
Statement from the Bishops’ Conference on the National Lockdown
Memory
Bookshop opening
Latest restrictions

October 2020

OYA by Zoom
‘You will not leave my soul among the dead’
Helping the Holy Souls
Trying to pray
November Dead List
Giving explained
Current Church Opening Times
‘He knows what he is about’
St John Henry Newman (Abbot Cuthbert Brogan’s Sermon)
New Sunday Mass
The Rosary

September 2020

Fr Jerome Memorial Journal
Spiritual battles
Director of Music
For thy sake
Fr Benedict's Ordination and First Mass
The Cross
Ordination Mass
Beginnings
Time

August 2020

Consecration of the new Sacred Heart altar
An appeal for Beirut
Changes to Mass and streaming schedule
Exciting news from Br Benedict

July 2020

Gwen Sheppard RIP
Mediaeval Inscriptions: The Epigraphy of the City of Oxford
Preparations for Saturday

June 2020

Re-opening for Masses
Solemnity of St Aloysius
Church opening for private prayer
Fr Jonathan Robinson, Cong. Orat. RIP

May 2020

Booklets for St Philip’s Day
Novena to St Philip Booklet
May Devotions Booklet
Pastoral Letters on the current pandemic

April 2020

The Patronage of St Philip
E-Newsletter
Benediction for St George’s Day
Sunday Update
Easter Messages
The Inscription on the Cross by Fr Jerome Bertram
Live Stream Sound Issues
The Stations of the Cross (by St John Henry Newman)
Triduum Services and Booklets
Holy Week Schedule
Requiem for Pat Collins

March 2020

Booking Masses Online
What to do when you can't get to confession
Feast of the Annunciation
Church Closed
What to do when you can’t get to Mass
Oratory Outreach
Changes to Mass times and church opening
Coronavirus Response Updated Wed 18 March
Coronavirus Response Updated Sat 14 March
Coronavirus Response
March Music

February 2020

February Music

January 2020

January Music
Music and Musicians in 2020

December 2019

Christmas Music 2019
Christmas Mass Times 2019

November 2019

The fifth English Oratory
November Music
Fr Jerome Bertram, Cong. Orat., M.A., F.S.A.
Fr Jerome Bertram RIP

October 2019

Fr Jerome Bertram RIP
October Music

September 2019

Newman and the New Evangelisation by Bishop Robert Barron
Fr George Bowen on Newman and the Oratory
Br Benedict's Ordination to the Diaconate
September Music

August 2019

August Music

July 2019

Farewell to Chesterton
Fr Marco Egawhary
July Music
Bl. John Henry Newman to be Canonised on 13 October

June 2019

June Music
Bishop Michael Campbell's St Philip's Day Sermon

May 2019

Holy Week Photos
May Music
Christ the Good Shepherd

April 2019

Holy Week and Easter 2019
April Music
Passiontide
The Last Week: 'It is finished'
Tenebrae Factae Sunt — Passiontide Musical Oratory
Bishop Robert installed as Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle
The Last Week: 'Behold, the hour is at hand'

March 2019

The Last Week: 'The hour has come'
The Last Week: ‘It was now night’
Lent, Holy Week and Easter 2019
March Music

February 2019

Canonisation of Blessed John Henry Newman
Bishop Robert becomes Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle
February Music

January 2019

The Future of Music at the Oratory
January Music

December 2018

Some pictures of this year's Rorate Mass
Times of Masses, Confessions and Services for Christmas 2018

November 2018

The Cause of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman of the Oratory
Confirmations 2018
The Presentation of Our Lady - a visual aid
They shall grow not old

October 2018

Forty Hours 2018
Feast of Blessed John Henry
Oratorian Pilgrimage to Walsingham
The Eleventh General Congress of the Confederation of the Oratory of St Philip Neri
Italian Pilgrimage

September 2018

Adoration for Schools
Adoremus
Another Acolyte
"Behold, a ladder was set on the earth"

August 2018

Young Oratory Summer Programme Photos
Scout Camp 2018
Young Oratory Summer Programme

July 2018

Chapel of St Ignatius
Father Oliver's First Mass
Ordination to the Priesthood
Women's Oratory

June 2018

St Aloysius' Day in his Jubilee Year
Flower-arranging Workshop
A film of the Corpus Christi Procession
Adoremus in Aeternum
Corpus Christi Procession this Sunday

May 2018

From the Jesuit Archives
Let your forbearance be known unto all
St Philip's Day 2018
Mary's prayers shall win our country back to Thee
Sacred Heart Altar

April 2018

Archbishop Longley to join Rosary on the Coast
Rosary on the Isis
Divine Mercy Devotions

March 2018

The Fathers & Brothers of the Oratory wish you a blessed Easter
Maundy Thursday: The Altar of Repose
Pictures from Palm Sunday
Holy Week and Easter 2018
Paschal Candle 2018
Our Lent Project: the Oxford LIFE House
Deacon Philip Prince R.I.P.
Episcopal Consecration of Bishop Mario Aviles

February 2018

Time Travel
Lent, Holy Week and Easter 2018
Candlemas
Cafe Neri starts tomorrow

January 2018

Pilgrimage to Rome, Assisi and the Holy House of Loreto
Parish Priest's Report 2017
Australia Day
Wednesday Morning Group Goes to the Dogs
New Year's Day with the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary

December 2017

The Fathers and Brothers of the Oratory wish you a very happy and holy Christmas
Christmas at the Oratory 2017-8 - Mass and Confession Times
Archbishop Longley celebrates Mass for the Immaculate Conception
Parish Visitation in the Snow
Father Procurator to be made a bishop
More confirmations

November 2017

Shoe boxes sent off
Confirmations 2017
Christmas Mass & Confession times 2017
His Grace the Archbishop to celebrate Mass for the Immaculate Conception
Deputy Head teacher Vacancy

October 2017

Shoe boxes for refugees
The Forty Hours 2017
The One Fold of the Redeemer
Brother Benedict is made a Lector

September 2017

Feast of Blessed John Henry Newman
A Journey of Faith to Fatima

August 2017

Groups starting in the autumn
Women's Oratory at Harvington Hall
Bless the Lord, O you rain

July 2017

A Pilgrimage to York
Religious Barbecue
Father Richard's Silver Jubilee

June 2017

Canonical Visitation
O Sacrament Most Holy!
Corpus Christi Procession this Sunday
Eularia Clarke Exhibition
Monsignor Armitage's Sermon for St Philip's Day

May 2017

Bournemouth Oratory-in-formation
St Philip's Day 2017
"My Immaculate Heart will Triumph"
Young Oratory in Rome

April 2017

The Saints of North Wales
Marriage Preparation Day
The Fathers and Brothers of the Oratory wish you a Blessed Easter
Some photographs of the Liturgy on Maundy Thursday
Times for the Triduum, Easter Week and Divine Mercy Sunday
Lent Talk — The Still Small Voice that Speaks in Lent

March 2017

A new Oratory in Cincinnati
Bishop Robert's Ordination Sermon
Some photographs of Br Oliver's Ordination to the Diaconate
Stabat Mater
Lent Talk — Prayer and Preaching
“Little Acts of Love”
Talk by Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow
Lent Talk — The Odd Life of St Norbert and his White Canons
Lent Talk — The School of St Philip
Resources on Ignatian Prayer
Fr David Hutton, Cong. Orat., R.I.P.

February 2017

Lent Talk — A School of the Lord's Service
Mary's Meals — Lent Project
Saturday Talks for Lent: Praying with the Church
Lent 2017
Oratory Young Adults
Saint Paul and his Letter to the Romans
The Church of Jerusalem
Triennial elections

January 2017

Oratorian orators
Parish Priest's Report 2016
Epiphany
Some Pictures of our Crib

December 2016

The Fathers and Brothers of the Oratory wish you all a very Happy and Holy Christmas
Lunch for the Homeless
The One Show
Rorate caeli desuper
Good OFSTED Report
Advent and Christmas at the Oratory
Immaculate Conception Sermon

November 2016

The End of the Holy Year
The Closing of the Holy Door of Mercy
The ruined Basilica of San Benedetto
The Art of Dying Well

October 2016

Frideswide Voices
Some photographs from this year's Forty Hours' Devotion
The Forty Hours begin this evening
Clothes appeal: Thank you
Saturday Talks: People of the Gospel

September 2016

Oratory Young Adults
New Scouts
Newman Night Walk
Young Oratory and Little Oratory
Our Lady's Birthday
Scout Camp 2016
Saint Teresa of Calcutta, pray for us!

August 2016

Mother Teresa's Canonization
Brothers' Retreat at Belmont Abbey
Fr Jerome walks again
The Monks of Norcia in the Earthquake
Keeping the punters happy
Mystery Tour
2nd Lieutenant Richard Walker R.I.P.
Fatima Pilgrimage 2017

July 2016

This Sunday: Our Lady of Oxford, Mother of Mercy

June 2016

More Bees
New Nursery Class at St Aloysius' School
St Aloysius' Day
First Holy Communions
Long to rain over us...
Mass at St Edward's Tomb
St Philip's Day Sermon
Corpus Christi Procession Video
Lourdes Pilgrimage
New Book: The Legacy of St Philip
Last Sunday's Corpus Christi Procession

May 2016

Pontifical Mass for Corpus Christi
St Philip's Day
Corpus Christi Procession this Sunday
Street Party for the Queen's Birthday
Saint Philip's Novena begins soon
Bournemouth Oratory-in-formation

April 2016

800 Years of the Dominicans
Visit of the Apostolic Nuncio to the Mother Teresa Exhibition
School Tea Party for The Queen
Happy Birthday Ma'am
Mother Teresa Exhibition opens
Serata Tombola & Pizza
Monteverdi Vespers
Evangelium
A Pilgrimage to Walsingham
Tombola Evening

March 2016

Divine Mercy Sunday - in the Year of Mercy
Monteverdi Vespers
Surrexit Dominus vere - alleluia!
The Fathers and Brothers of the Oratory wish you a Blessed Easter
This year's Paschal Candle
Year of Mercy Pilgrims
Mother Teresa Exhibition
A Passiontide Musical Oratory

February 2016

Novena for the Canonization of Blessed Dominic Barberi
Visit of Bishop Schneider
Lent Project
Compline with Bishop Schneider
24 Hours for the Lord
Lent at the Oratory
Parish Priest's Report 2015
Lent Talks on Exodus and Leviticus

January 2016

First Scout Promises
Benediction in the Crib
Evangelium continues
Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2016

December 2015

Catholic History of Oxford: Series Two
Women's Oratory Christmas Dinner
The Fathers & Brothers of the Oratory wish you all a happy and holy Christmas
Times of Masses & Confessions - Christmas 2015
Christmas lunch for the Homeless
Rorate Mass
Preparing for Christmas
The Holy Door is opened
The Holy Year of Mercy
Solemn Mass for the Immaculate Conception
Solemn First Vespers of the Immaculate Conception
The caravan moves on
Benemerenti
General Improvements
Confirmations

November 2015

Thank you for the Music
"And here at length is he"
Nightfever
Br Oliver is made an Acolyte
Oxford Catholic History

October 2015

Confirmations in the Extraordinary Form
Oxford Catholic History Talks
Sermon from the Feast of Blessed John Henry Newman, our Cardinal
Forty Hours Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament - this weekend
The Remorseful Day
Bishop Robert Byrne's Sermon for the Twenty-fifth anniversary of the arrival of the Oratory in Oxford

September 2015

Silver Jubilee Celebrations
Ordination of Father Kevin Athaíde
St Philip Stamps
Oxford Open Doors Exhibition
Our Lady's Birthday — 25 Years since the Oratory began in Oxford
Guides and Scouts Fire
A Novena for Parliament

August 2015

The Little Singers of St Charles
Evangelium Course to begin in September
Fr Davide Saron, Cong. Orat.
First Summer Camp of the 1st Oxford Scout Troop of St Philip

July 2015

More Photos from St Philip's Birthday Celebrations in Florence
Celebrations of St Philip's Birthday in Florence
St Aloysius' Day Sermon by Fr James Hanvey SJ

June 2015

Fr Stephen Morrison, O.Præm
On Fire With Joy
St Aloysius Gonzaga - pray for us
Wednesday Morning Trip to Hereford
His Grace the Archbishop leads the Corpus Christi Procession
Performance of Bach's Mass in B Minor
Vespers for the Year of Consecrated Life
Oxford Catholic Handicapped Fellowship in Lourdes
Vespers for the Order of Malta

May 2015

St Philip's Day with HE Cardinal Burke
Pictures from First Vespers of St Philip, Benediction, and Veneration of the Relic
Photos from the Chesterton Open Day
The visit of the Relics of Blesseds Louis and Zélie Martin
Plenary Indulgence for St Philip's Day
Chesterton Exhibition in our Library
New book: St Philip Neri and the Oratory
Living with Saint Philip

April 2015

The Saint who loved laughter!
Marriage Preparation Day 2015
Questioning the Candidates
New Director of Music
Bach's Mass in B Minor
General Election Hustings
Five hundred years of Joy! Celebrations for St Philip's fifth centenary
He is risen indeed!

March 2015

Holy Week and Easter Service Times 2015
2015 Paschal Candle
Our Lent Project - SURVIVE-MIVA
New book: St Joseph Vaz

February 2015

Cardinal Burke to celebrate St Philip's Day in Oxford
Liszt's Via Crucis
Lent and Holy Week 2015
Parish Priest's Report 2014

January 2015

Two Missionary Saints
Director of Music for November 2015
Scouts d'Europe
Saint Joseph Vaz - Pray for us!
Faith of Our Fathers
Joseph Vaz's birthplace
Fr Robert Barron filming in church

December 2014

The Fathers and Brothers of the Oratory wish you all a very happy and holy Christmas
Christmas lunch for the homeless
2014 Rorate Mass
Christmas Mass Times
Mugs
Prepare a Way for the Lord
Sermon for the Immaculate Conception
Immaculate Mary
Messiah Performance

November 2014

Messiah this Saturday
Murder at the Oratory
Immaculate Conception 2014
The Last of the Last Things
Art and calligraphy afternoon
Ordination of the New Bishop of Leeds
For the fallen
Venerable Father Raimondo Calcagno of the Oratory

October 2014

The Last Things
Marriage and Monasticism
Solemn Vespers, Procession and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
Forty Hours Underway
Sermon for the Feast of Blessed John Henry Newman
Calligraphy afternoon
A new Oratory in Jamaica
Relic Chapel Repaired

September 2014

Murder Mystery Dinner
Come and Sing Messiah
Blessed Joseph Vaz of the Oratory to be Canonised
New film about Blessed John Henry Newman
Monsignor Marcus Stock to be Bishop of Leeds
Patching up the Relic Chapel
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Royal Visit to our Parish
Advance Notice - the Forty Hours 2014, with a special intention

August 2014

The St Rupert Pilgerweg
Pilgrimage to Lourdes

July 2014

New novice clothed
The Last Judgement at Fairford
Pray for the Christians of Iraq
Twenty-five years of priesthood
Father Dominic's Silver Jubilee
Assisted Dying Bill: Special time of Prayer
Concert by the Camerata of Curiosities

June 2014

Blessed Sacrament Procession and Blessing of a new Peace Garden at St Aloysius' School
First Holy Communions
Corpus Christi 2014
Celebrating St Aloysius
New book: The Divine Office Hymnal
St Anthony Unveiled and Blessed
St Anthony Veiled
New Publication: In honorem B. Mariae Virginis

May 2014

Solemn Pontifical Mass for St Philip's Day
Solemn First Vespers of our Holy Father St Philip
May Procession in Church
May Procession at School
Holy Father Saint Philip - Pray for us
Consecration of Bishop Robert Byrne, Cong. Orat.
Vigil for Fr Robert at the Birmingham Oratory
Father Robert presented with a Crosier by the Parish
Marriage Preparation Day
St Philip's Day 2014
Easter Fair

April 2014

Pray for us!
Divine Mercy Sunday
New Publication: The Office and Mass of St Philip
Resurrexit Dominus vere!
St Anthony in Progress
Parish Lent Project
2014 Paschal Candle
Spring Cleaning on a large scale
Wednesday Morning Group Retreat at Littlemore

March 2014

Some pictures of today's G.K. Chesterton exhibition in our library
Chesterton Library Exhibition
Talks on the Book of Genesis
Coach to Fr Robert's Episcopal Ordination
Parish Centre Weekday Opening
Father Robert to be made a Bishop
Lent and Holy Week Schedule
Parish Report for 2013

February 2014

Parish Pancake Party
A really easy way to support the Oratory Campaign - do it now!
Youth Group - Slaughter and Sacrifice
Youth Group - Quiz Night this Sunday
Triennial Elections

January 2014

Youth Group Talk - The Presentation of the Lord
Angela Sloan R.I.P.
New painting unveiled
Youth Group Film Night - The Way
A new painting
New: Publications Section
Catholicism Series begins
The Epiphany Ball
Epiphany Benediction in the Crib
Sacristan wanted
Young Speakers win competition for the Oratory
Epiphany at the Oratory

December 2013

The Fathers and Brothers of the Oratory wish you a happy and holy Christmas
Fr Robert in support for Christians in the Middle East
Christmas Mass Times
Immaculate Conception Sermon
Rorate Mass tomorrow

November 2013

St Peter's Relics
Life of Blessed Salvio Huix
Fr Richard's Induction
Fr Robert Barron's Catholicism
Special Mass for the People of the Philippines
Collection for the Philippines
Stabat Mater
Camerata of Curiosities - this Saturday

October 2013

St Wilfrid's Website
Fr Richard leaves for York
Please pray for our foundation in York
The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy
Forty Hours in the Year of Faith
Oxford Oratory Pilgrimage to Catalonia
The Holy Father's Message for the Beatification of the Spanish Martyrs of the Twentieth Century
Buy Tickets now for 9th November
Beatification of our First Martyr
Night Walk to Littlemore
New Youth Group
St Anthony's Fire

September 2013

Skydiving Success
Evangelium in the Hopkins Room
Over-60s stranded in Walsingham
Oxford Open Doors
Evangelium Course starts again this week
Vigil for Peace - this Saturday 7.30-11pm

August 2013

Parachute Jump Progress
Walking to Mariazell for the Assumption
Dinner with the Jesuits
More Photographs of the Blessing of the New Building
New building blessed by Archbishop Longley

July 2013

A new deacon
Brothers' Pilgrimage to Ars
St Wilfrid's, York
Wednesday Morning Group Coffee at Standlake
Back in the Parish Centre
Father Antonio Dario R.I.P.
Solemn Profession of a Knight of Malta

June 2013

Fr Daniel and Br Oliver to jump out of plane
Wednesday Morning Group Trip
St Aloysius' Day Party in the New Parish Centre
Our Parish Patronal Festival. Saint Aloysius - Pray for us
SVP Fruit Collection
A few more pictures of the Corpus Christi Procession
Corpus Christi Procession 2013

May 2013

Pope Francis urges all the faithful to make time for Eucharistic Adoration this Sunday.
St Philip's Day 2013
St Philip's Altar on his feast day
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

April 2013

Young Oratory Speakers in Hull
Legion of Mary
Respice de Caelo, Sancte Pater
Divine Mercy
Happy Easter
Oratory Team in National Final

March 2013

Holy Week 2013
This year's Paschal Candle
Habemus Papam!
Prayers for the Conclave
Holy Hour for Conclave

February 2013

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
Praying for the Pope
Evangelium
Victory for the Oratory
Day of Prayer for the Church
Costa Rica Coast to Coast Cycle

January 2013

Parish Priest's Report 2012
Evangelium Course to begin in Lent
Mass of Inscription
Epiphany Procession and Benediction
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

December 2012

The Fathers and Brothers of the Oratory wish you a happy and a holy Christmas
Rorate Mass 2012
Wantage Sisters to become Catholics
Tota Pulchra es Maria

November 2012

Costa Rica Coast to Coast Cycle
Confirmations
Father Dominic and St Philip's School in Rome
Women's Oratory Pilgrimage to Rome
Filipino Pilgrimage to Our Lady of Oxford

October 2012

The Forty Hours 2012

July 2012

Catholic Women's League Celebrates 150 years since the birth of its founder.
La visite des évêques

June 2012

Homily for St Aloysius' Day by Fr Michael Holman SJ
Corpus Christi Procession 2012
Diamond Jubilee Celebrations

May 2012

Solemnity of our Holy Father Saint Philip
A new performance of the Dream of Gerontius
Solemn Mass for the English Martyrs
Canonical Visitation

April 2012

Priest received at St Aloysius' died on the Titanic

March 2012

The blessing of the Building Site

December 2011

Pictures of this Year's Rorate Mass

November 2011

Blessing
Holy Communion
Ascendit in Jubilatione!
Our Father

October 2011

Sacrament
Sacrifice
The Forty Hours 2011
The Offertory
The Gospel
Some more pictures of Father Nicholas's Ordination & First Mass
Ordination and First Mass of Father Nicholas
The Priesthood

September 2011

New novice clothed
Announcing the Word
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Confiteor
And with your spirit

August 2011

Three Oratories Walkers arrive home safely

July 2011

Friday Abstinence - Why?

June 2011

Some pictures of the 2011 Oxford Deanery Corpus Christi Procession
Bishop Kenney blesses new School building and launches Motto and Mission Statement

May 2011

St Philip's Day 2011

April 2011

The Liturgy of the Passion
Mass of the Lord's Supper
Receptions into the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
Grand Master of the Order of Malta becomes Patron of the Oratory Reaffirmation & Renewal Campaign

March 2011

Br Nicholas's Ordination to the Diaconate

January 2011

Father Andrew Burnham's First Mass

December 2010

Rorate Mass
Sermon for the Immaculate Conception

November 2010

Women's Oratory presents cheque for the Campaign

October 2010

Opening Mass of the Forty Hours
Blessed John Henry's first feast day
Father Dominic at St Philip's

September 2010

Holy Father's Audience address (Wednesday 22 September)
Carpenter's hand-made box given to Pope
Blessed John Henry Newman of the Oratory - Pray for us!
Relic of Newman is prepared for veneration

August 2010

The Camino to Santiago
Wednesday Morning Group on Rose Hill

July 2010

Newman's Golden Nugget
Fr Joel Warden Visits from Brooklyn

June 2010

St Aloysius' Day 2010
Some more pictures of this year's Corpus Christi Procession
Corpus Christi Procession 2010
Reaffirmation and Renewal Campaign reaches first Million

April 2010

Archbishop Longley celebrates Solemn Pontifical Mass on third Sunday of Easter
Good Friday 2010

March 2010

Palm Sunday

February 2010

Feast of the Chair of St Peter

January 2010

Monsignor Graham Leonard RIP
Fr Gregory Mitchell of the Port Elizabeth Oratory
A White Epiphany!
The Epiphany of the Lord - Silver Jubilee of Father Robert

November 2009

Immaculate Conception Novena
Newly restored Relic Chapel
Forty Hours 2009
Deacon Jack Sullivan Visits the Oratory
Br Nicholas given Ministry of Acolyte

October 2009

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:

September 2009

Papal Visit to Oxford?
Divine Comedy Rehearsals - latest pictures!

August 2009

More Pictures from Divine Comedy Rehearsals

July 2009

A scene from Rehearsals
Lead Kindly Light

June 2009

Even More Pictures of the Corpus Christi Procession
More pictures from the Corpus Christi Procession
Corpus Christi Procession 2009
Father Dominic in Philadelphia

April 2009

The Easter Vigil - celebrated by Bishop William Kenney CP
Preparing the Church on Holy Saturday
Good Friday: Liturgy of the Lord's Passion
Mass of the Lord's Supper on Maundy Thursday