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This year our APCMs will be held in Church at 7.30 pm on the following dates:
Monday 23 April – Ascott Tuesday 24 April – Spelsbury Wednesday 25 April – Chadlington Thursday 26 April – Enstone
Contrary to popular belief, these meetings are not only for PCC members! They are important meetings for ALL members of our congregations, where the PCC presents its annual report and accounts and the congregation has the opportunity to raise matters to be considered in the coming year. Continue reading Annual Parochial Church Meetings 2018→
Easter Day was particularly memorable in the Benefice this year. We woke to a beautiful spring day and walking through the churchyards with sunlight on the daffodils was a treat after the wet and grey weather of recent weeks. Each of our churches had been lovingly decorated and were filled with spring flowers, and it was a real joy to celebrate our Lord’s resurrection. Continue reading Easter 2018→
We have had a beautiful Holy Week in the Chase Benefice. Here are some photos to remind us of the journey we have shared. Continue reading Holy Week 2018→
Recently, we had a very special one at Holy Trinity Church, Ascott-under-Wychwood for 11-month-old twins, Samuel and Isaac. They were born three months premature, weighing just 2lb 12oz and 3lb, and spent the first two months of their lives in hospital. Since then, Isaac has had another spell in hospital but has recovered well and is now catching up his bigger brother! Continue reading A Special Baptism→
After the upheaval and dust of the last six months of work inside St. Kenelm’s Church, the end is in sight of what has turned out to be a 30-year project to safeguard and enhance our beautiful building. All that remains to be done is the final fix of our hidden kitchen; the connection of mains water and drainage, and finally, the installation of our new reredos depicting the life of St. Kenelm in a mosaic of Venetian glass. Continue reading First glimpse of St Kenelm’s→
Our friends at the Charlbury Quaker Meeting invite you to join their stimulating reading group. The Reading Group meets for an hour each month to discuss each of the Quaker “Building the New Economy” booklets. These are all focused around how we can move towards a more sustainable economy which doesn’t rely on consuming our natural resources and economic growth every year. Fortunately, you don’t need a degree in economics to understand this because each booklet is written for beginners. Continue reading Charlbury New Economy Reading Group→
Called to be Christ-like: contemplative, compassionate and courageous
I am writing to invite every church, chaplaincy, small group and school in the diocese to do something very simple but life changing over the next year.
I am asking the whole Diocese of Oxford to read, study and dwell in the opening words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount: the Beatitudes in Matthew 5.1-10. Continue reading Letter from Bishop Steven→
