BACKSTAGE

The Director, Tessa Caldecott:

Thérèse and Céline backstage:

Three angels resting:

The Cast warm up!

THE PERFORMANCE:

Dan & the Doctor:

Thérèse and Pauline:

Thérèse and Louis:

Thérèse, Pauline and Céline:

Céline and Thérèse:

Healing of Thérèse:

The Virgin of the Smile:

Older Céline and Thérèse:

Thérèse:

Thérèse asks her father’s permission to enter Carmel:

Henri Pranzini: a soul saved by Thérèse’s prayers.

With Nietszche in a Paris Lift:

IN CARMEL

Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus:

Sister Marie of the Sacred Heart:

Finale: The Fight between Good & Evil:

Dan & Sister Françoise Thérèse (Léonie):

Dan & Beatrice:

Death of Thérèse:

Photographs by Richard Brown

Photographs by Br Lawrence Lew OP

No – it’s the Divine Comedy! The picture shows Thérèse asking Pope Leo XIII whether she may enter Carmel at 15.

Here, Clare Coggins as the Carmelite Thérèse:

And here, Marie, Thérèse and their father Louis Martin:

Pictures by James Bradley

Thérèse makes her first Confession:

Monsignor Reverony caught in an informal moment:

The stars take a break:

The Carmelites Practise their chant:

Our Lady cures the young St Thérèse:

Three of the actresses playing Thérèse at different stages of her life:

The Divine Comedy is our Thérèsian mystery play, to be performed on 30th September, 1st & 2nd October in preparation for the visit of St Thérèse. Buy tickets now from the Porter’s Lodge or the Oxford Playhouse!

On Sunday 12th July there was a Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving for the forthcoming Beatification of our Cardinal, John Henry Newman, followed by the singing of the Te Deum.

Among the clergy in choir were the Very Reverend Fr Ignatius Harrison, Provost of the London Oratory and Fr Brendan Callaghan SJ, Master of Campion Hall.

Photographs by Rosie Caldecott

Photos by Rosie Caldecott:

Pictures by James Bradley

It is hard to assess how many people came to the Deanery Corpus Christi procession – but the crowds stretched from one end of Cornmarket to the other. This year for the first time we were accompanied by the Witney Town Band, who included some Maltese processional music in their repetoire.

Here are some pictures of the event by Br Lawrence Lew OP

Fr Dominic explains things to the Dominicans!

The Procession begins at the Oratory:

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP preaches at Blackfriars:

Passing the Ashmolean:

In Cornmarket:

Benediction at the University Chaplaincy: