Diocese of Oxford

Ordinary Time

What would you have been thinking?

Gospel                     Mark 8.27–38 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I am?’ And they answered him, ‘John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of…

Live a life of faithfulness

Gospel                     Mark 7.24–37 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit…

Journeys through education : Education Sunday

Gospel                     Mark 7.1–8, 14, 15, 21–23 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. (For the Pharisees, and all the…

The bread of life – the ultimate satisfaction

Gospel           John 6.56-69   Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John All        Glory to you O Lord     Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will…

Baptism – our RSVP

Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John All        Glory to you O Lord    I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.’ The Jews then…

When life gives you lemons…..there is hope

First Reading           1 Kings 19.4–8 But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that he might die: ‘It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my ancestors.’ Then he lay down under the broom tree…

One new, united, humanity

Gospel           John 6.24–35 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John All        Glory to you O Lord    So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. When they found him on the other side of…

Lift up your eyes and see

Gospel           John 6: 1-21 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John All        Glory to you O Lord    After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias.  A large crowd kept following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing for…

Time to rest

Gospel            Mark 6. 30–34, 53–56 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark All        Glory to you O Lord    The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. He said to them, ‘Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.’ For many…

Grace and Peace

First Reading          Ephesians 1.3–14 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. He destined us for adoption as his…