Welcome to Pusey House
"Pusey House changes people"
That is the common refrain of those who have passed through this place. That, indeed, is the aim of the Christian life, to be changed from glory to glory, into the likeness of the God who has created us and who calls us to Himself. That is the purpose of the sacramental life which is the foundation, and heart-beat, of the life of Pusey House: baptism, the Eucharist, the other sacraments of the Church, all set in the context of the regular, routine encounter with the converting power of the Word of God in the recitation of the Daily Offices. John Betjeman, in his verse-autobiography Summoned By Bells, famously put it like this:
Those were the days when that divine baroque
Transformed our English altars and our ways.
Fiddle-back chasuble in mid-Lent pink
Scandalized Rome and Protestants alike …
Despite my frequent lapses into lust,
Despite hypocrisy, revenge and hate,
I learned at Pusey House the Catholic faith.
Latest News
Baptism and Confirmation
James Fox was baptised and confirmed today by Andrew, Bishop of Ebbsfleet, during the High Mass of Pentecost. The sacrament of confirmation was also conferred on Phillip Gration.
11th May 2008
Friends' Festival 2008
The Annual Festival of the Friends of Pusey House will take place on Sunday 8 June 2008.
High Mass 11am
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor
Harris: Faire is the Heaven
Britten: Te Deum in C
Preacher: The Revd Prebendary William Scott, Sub Dean of Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal, Deputy Clerk of the Closet,Sub-Almoner and Domestic Chaplain to The Queen
A buffet luncheon will be available,and the Annual General Meeting of the Friends will follow at 2.30 p.m.
10th May 2008
The Ecumenical Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Oxford branch of the ESBVM will meet at Pusey House on Thursday 8 May at 7.30 p.m.
Stratford and Leonie Caldecott of the Centre for Faith & Culture will speak on Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the poetry of G K Chesterton and G M Hopkins.
26th April 2008