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All Saints Church Shorthampton was the venue for our latest Choral Evensong sung by St Mary’s Church choir. Organist Richard Fairhurst. Soloists: Sebastian Fairhurst, Mike Summers

Music:

Preces and Responses by William Smith

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F by George Dyson

Anthem Ride On by Grayston Ives

Organ Voluntary : Love Unknown

At St Mary’s Church on Good Friday 18th April at 10am.

Come and join us and explore the Easter story though games, crafts and activities.

Here are a few photos from St Mary’s Mothering Sunday service last week. Our thanks to those who made up the flower posies, to Denise Summers for the delicious Simnel Cake (for 51 years in a row!), the Vicar Fergus, Richard, Choir, everyone who made the service special, and Mary for the photos. Thank you!

We have been advised that the talk to mark 1700 years of the Council of Nicaea has been postponed until after Easter.

A series of talks for Lent arranged by Churches Together in Charlbury, to be held on Tuesday evenings at 7.30pm in St Mary’s Parish Church.

11 March – Prof. Markus Bockmuehl on ‘The Light of the World’. Markus has recently edited a new book about Holman Hunt’s famous picture. 

18 March – Revd. Dr Nick Wood on ‘Jesus through the eyes of other faiths’. Nick is a Baptist minister with long experience of inter-faith relations. He will be speaking about Jesus from the perspective of non-Christian faiths. As a Baptist minister he was the Vice-Moderator of the Commission on Baptist Muslim Relations of the Baptist World Alliance and from 2015-2020 served in the same role on the revised Commission for Interfaith Relations. He is honorary Vice-President of the Christian Muslim Forum (England) and until recently was a member of the Baptist Union of Great Britain’s inter-faith working group. We may be surprised by the respect in which Jesus is held by other faiths and what they learn from his life and teaching. Please arrive promptly for 7.30pm start. There is no admission charge but donations will be gratefully received towards expenses.

25 March – Roger Wagner, artist and poet, on ‘The Flowering Tree’. Roger will be illustrating his talk from his own paintings and poetry.

1 April – Revd. Esther Lay on ‘Meeting Christ in poetry’. Esther is Rector of Wooton near Woodstock and a prize-winning poet.

8 April – Revd. Dr Elizabeth Koepping on ‘Jesus across the Christian world’. Elizabeth is a social anthropologist, university teacher and priest.

More information about the speakers and their talks can be found on the Events page of charlbury.info There is no charge for admission but donations will be gratefully received towards expenses. Please arrive in good time for a prompt start to the talk at 7.30pm. There will be opportunity for questions and the meeting will finish by 9pm.

Everyone is welcome

We will be having a confirmation service later this year with a course to help people explore their faith in a deeper way beforehand. If you would like to commit to the life of St Mary’s in full and to learn more about the joys and beauties of the faith we proclaim, please email the Vicar (contact details here) or sign your name up on the sheet in church. Thank you.

Image is royalty-free from Pixabay.

A service was held on Friday 7th March 2025 by Churches Together in Charlbury in St Mary’s Church for the Women’s World Day of Prayer. The service was written by women in the Cook Islands.