This Sunday, Fr Jerome will be talking about the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple. Armed only with a Bible, he will unpack the story handed down to us in St Luke’s Gospel.

Meet in the parish centre after the Sunday evening Mass (about 7:30) for drinks (provided!) and food (bring and share!). The talk will begin at 8pm in the parish centre, and will end with Compline at around 9pm.

Angela Clare (née Sloan) was a much-loved class teacher at St Aloysius’ Catholic Primary School for seven years, before becoming ill last summer. She died on Friday 24th January, at the age of 39. Staff and pupils have been greatly saddened, and will be coming to church on Friday (31st) for a Requiem Mass at 10am.

Angela’s funeral Mass will take place at the Immaculate Conception, Bicester on Thursday 6th February at 10am.

May she rest in peace.

The new portrait by Alvin Ong, of Blessed Salvio Huix-Miralpeix was unveiled in the Parish Centre this morning, and parishioners had the opportunity to meet the artist.

We are very pleased with the work, which depicts the pectoral cross worn by Blessed Salvio, which he asked to be sent to the Pope, and conveys the pastoral heart and determined witness of this martyr.

Alvin Ong is willing to take on other commissions – which would also be a way of raising money for our fundraising Campaign. Please speak to Fr Daniel if you are interested.

The painting is revealed:

Alvin discusses his work:

The Youth Group will start meeting again this Sunday at 7:30pm in the parish centre to watch The Way. Bring food, drinks provided. New faces always welcome!

Watch the trailer here.

The young Singaporean artist Alvin Ong, who is studying at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, has painted a fine new portrait of Blessed Salvio Huix-Miralpeix, our first martyr, beatified last October.

The painting, which we hope will go in our church, will be unveiled in the Parish Centre after the Solemn Mass this coming Sunday (26th January), when you will also be able to meet the artist himself!

Since its foundation in the 16th century, the Oratory has been involved in the writing and publication of books. The Fathers in Oxford have continued something of this tradition, in formats ranging from childrens’ books to CDs.

A list of published works is now available from the Publications section of the website. Most of the books are available to buy online, and links are provided where possible. Thanks to print-on-demand publishing, we have also been able to re-publish some works of Oratorian interest that have long been out of print, in addition to our own newly-written works.

There was a full house this morning for the first session of the Catholicism series, presented by Fr Robert Barron. Today’s episode was on “Amazed and Afraid: The Revelation of God Made Man”. The course continues for ten weeks, each Saturday at 11am, with tea and coffee served beforehand. Next week’s theme is: “Happy are We: the Teachings of Jesus”.

On Sunday evening a masked Ball was held in the Parish Centre for young people, and the sixty tickets were sold out.

Dancing instruction was given, and the dancers managed to make their steps correspond somewhat to their elegant dress.

£1645.72 was raised for the Oratory’s fundraising Campaign, for which thanks go to all who took part, and especially to the organisers, Sian Stevens and Tessa Caldecott.

We hope that this will not be the last such event: it is a good demonstration of the new possibilities opened up by the refurbishment of the parish centre.

This afternoon we had our annual Epiphany Procession and Benediction in the Crib.

We began with the blessing of chalk, and writing the inscription 20+C+M+B+14 above the door: Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar, or “Christ bless this House” – “Christus Mansionem Benedicat”. Chalk is available at the back of the house for you to write this above your own doors.

Then we went in procession, following the star to Bethlehem.

The Blessed Sacrament was then placed in the crib for us to adore.

The Kings brought their gifts to the baby Jesus:

The Oxford Oratory
is looking for a

Lay Sacristan

to assist the Father Sacristan at weekends
as well as on major feast days and during busy seasons of the year.

In the first instance please contact Fr Dominic Jacob at
dominic.jacob@oxfordoratory.org.uk

or in writing at:
The Oratory
25 Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6HA