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WeekdaysMONDAY TO FRIDAY
(In term) Morning Prayer is said Monday to Friday at 7.40 a.m., and Evening Prayer is said Monday to Friday at 5.30 p.m. Mass is celebrated at 8.00 a.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, immediately after Morning Prayer. On Fridays, we celebrate Holy Communion according to the Book of Common Prayer. We meet for coffee and discussion of the day's readings in the Hood Room around 8.30. TUESDAYS: Compline (Book of Common Prayer, 1928) is sung by candle-light on Tuesday evenings at 9.30 p.m. (Weeks 0–9). WEDNESDAYS: Mass takes place at 6 p.m., immediately after Evening Prayer, on Wednesday evenings and includes a short homily. FRIDAYS: The Litany is said at 7:30 a.m. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament takes place after Evensong at 5.30 p.m. (Weeks 0–8). For more information about the Mass, or Holy Communion, please follow this link. Baptisms take place throughout the year at Pusey House. If you would like to find out more, follow this link. If you would like to receive the sacrament of Confirmation, we can help you arrange this, just follow this link. Confessions, or the Sacrament of Reconcilation, are heard regularly at Pusey House, find out more here. Holy Orders? If you would like to find out about what it means to be a priest, or feel that you might be called to ordained ministry in the Church of England, we are here to help! Just follow this link. Healing Ministry. We would be happy to pray for you in a time of any need, particularly for those suffering sickness or anxiety. Please follow this link to find out more about Holy Anointing. |
Forthcoming ServicesThis term's detailed weekly sheets, outlining the Chapel's services, can be downloaded here.
The weekly lectionaries, which we use for services in House, can be downloaded here.
The Chapel of the Resurrection"I do not think there is in Oxford any better specimen of Gothic design, old or new", wrote architectural historian Harry Goodhart-Rendel of the Chapel of Pusey House. With its Temple Moore design and its fittings by Ninian Comper - whose ciborium over the altar in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel is one of the finest examples of his work - it is one of Oxford’s hidden gems. Some of Comper’s original vestments remain in use, and others have been commissioned using his original designs. Far from being an architectural showpiece, however, the Chapel remains a place of living worship, where the offices are chanted and the mass offered every day; either quietly in the stillness of an early weekday morning or with splendid music and full ceremonial on Sunday. It is a place where prayer continues to be offered to God in the beauty of holiness everyday.
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How we worship at Pusey House
Pusey House is situated within what some might refer to as "The Great Tradition." That is to say, theologically, spiritually, ascetically and liturgically, we represent an experiment within contemporary culture, arguing that perhaps within the grammar, ideas and praxis of classical Christian discipline, theoria and liturgy, the answers to the many questions demanded of modernity might be answered.
In our daily worship, and in the cycle of the Christian Year, the essential message of Holy Scripture, God's word to us, is set before us in an orderly and supremely logical way. As we follow the lessons appointed for the Sundays and the great festivals, and as we meditate upon them, and as we open our minds and hearts to understand the pattern and meaning of them, we are led, step by step, into an ever deeper and clearer perception of Christian truth and the essentials of Christian life.
In the first half of the year from Advent to Trinity Sunday, the cycle of lessons sets before us in due succession those great works wherein the mind and heart of God are manifest in Jesus Christ, those great works whereby our redemption and reconciliation are accomplished, and we are called to new life in the Spirit. All that teaching, all that revelation and illumination, is magnificently summed up in our adoring contemplation of God the Holy Trinity. A door is opened in Heaven,and souls are caught up in worship, with angels and archangels; we "rise to adore the mystery of love".
As children of God by adoption and grace, and heirs of eternal life, we are to be partakers of the divine nature, partakers of that mystery. With open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, we are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. (II Cor. 3:18) "Changed into the same image": therein lies the meaning, the logic, of our lectionary for this long season of Sundays after Trinity.
In our daily worship, and in the cycle of the Christian Year, the essential message of Holy Scripture, God's word to us, is set before us in an orderly and supremely logical way. As we follow the lessons appointed for the Sundays and the great festivals, and as we meditate upon them, and as we open our minds and hearts to understand the pattern and meaning of them, we are led, step by step, into an ever deeper and clearer perception of Christian truth and the essentials of Christian life.
In the first half of the year from Advent to Trinity Sunday, the cycle of lessons sets before us in due succession those great works wherein the mind and heart of God are manifest in Jesus Christ, those great works whereby our redemption and reconciliation are accomplished, and we are called to new life in the Spirit. All that teaching, all that revelation and illumination, is magnificently summed up in our adoring contemplation of God the Holy Trinity. A door is opened in Heaven,and souls are caught up in worship, with angels and archangels; we "rise to adore the mystery of love".
As children of God by adoption and grace, and heirs of eternal life, we are to be partakers of the divine nature, partakers of that mystery. With open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, we are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. (II Cor. 3:18) "Changed into the same image": therein lies the meaning, the logic, of our lectionary for this long season of Sundays after Trinity.
