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10am-11:30am Fortnightly on Thursdays

A small number of us meet together regularly in a pastoral fellowship group held in a home in the parish. This group is for those who would like to get to know each other better and where there is an opportunity to support and pray for one another. We also aim to develop our understanding of scripture and spirituality, so use resources such as Bible study guides to aid short discussions around chosen themes.

For further information contact Chrissy at chrissy_dove@hotmail.com

For information on all the groups available for bible study, prayer or fellowship just click here

Over the course of this year we’ll be taking a journey through the Old Testament, so we can both better understand scripture as a whole, and the one who fulfils it. Most months, after the joint service at 11:30am, we’ll have an approx. half hour talk followed by Q and A.

We began on September 27th, with Paul speaking on the foundational stories in Genesis 1-11.

It continues next week (25th October) after the joint service at St. John’s. Grab a coffee after the service and we’ll start at 11:30am. The next in our series walking, or sprinting, through the Old Testament will be John Goldingay speaking on “Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.” For those of you who don’t know John, here’s his brief autobiography:
John Goldingay is a retired priest and professor who goes to Morning Prayer in Christ Church, writes books about the Old Testament (currently writing one on Satan in the book of Job), and lies in the sun on his lounger. Oliver once told him to listen to Oasis, and he did.

If you did not make it to the first session on Genesis 1-11, please don’t let that stop you! It will be a great session and well worth coming to!

Communion is a big part of our church life here in the parish, as it is all over the world. Many of our children and young people are in services where we celebrate it, but we don’t often teach on it specifically, and it’s even rarer we talk about it in a way aimed at children and young people. This October all that will change!

Beginning on October 2nd and running before Choristers rehearsals for four weeks (Oct. 2nd, Oct. 16th, Nov. 6th, Nov. 13th), we are going to have a kid-friendly session for choristers to learn about communion: why we do it, what it means, and why it’s important. If your young person is interested, we’d love to have them there. At the end of these sessions, if you and your children want, they can be admitted to communion, which means they will be able to take it during the services, receiving bread and wine with everyone else. We will be in St. Mary’s refectory from 4:45pm till 6pm, and we’ll feed them pizza and pasta (or something different if they have allergies etc) before choristers begin. This will primarily be aimed at those in Key Stage 1 and 2, but if you have a young person/young people older than that we can happily accommodate them.

Please email Paul (curatepaul@kidhp.org.uk) if you’re interested.

Saturday 14th November, 7pm, St Mary’s Kidlington

Our Castaway is Yo Davies, interviewed by Jan Jeffreys.

Tickets, £12.50 each, include a glass of wine and nibbles.

To help with catering, please book in advance if you can, by clicking here

Please note that this is raising money for the Live Nativity in December (“camels”). The cost of the camels does not come from our church budget. Do come and support these events, thanks all.

Sunday 18th October 5.30pm

This Sunday the choir and choristers will be singing evensong at 5.30pm at St Mary’s. Music will include the introit “Hail gladdening light” by Sir John Stainer, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis with Fauxbourdons by William Byrd, Psalm 42 (“Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks”) set to a beautiful chant by Sir Edward Bairstow, and the powerful anthem “O Lorde, the maker of al thing” by John Joubert.

There’ll also be a congregational hymn and an organ voluntary by one of our organ scholars. All are most welcome!

If you haven’t been to evensong before, why not give it a try?