Chapel Services
Weekly sheets for Hilary Term, with details of all our services, can be downloaded here.
WeekdaysIn full academic term
(from 11/01/21) Morning Prayer is said at 8 a.m.; we say the Noonday Office (lasting about ten minutes); and Evening Prayer is said at 5.30 p.m.. On Wednesdays, we celebrate Mass, straight after Evening Prayer, at 6 p.m. Mass on Wednesday evenings includes a short homily by one of our young people exploring their vocation in the Church; you can listen to previous recorded sermons here. On Fridays only, we say the Litany together immediately after Morning Prayer. |
Sunday Services
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Worshipping Online
During lock-down, we have committed to live-streaming the Office of Evening Prayer, and Mass on Wednesday evenings and Sunday morning.
You can watch these services on either our YouTube Channel or on our Facebook page. If joining the live-stream for Evening Prayer, you can follow the liturgy and find the Psalter on the Church of England's website, here. |
Praying at Home
When praying at home, you may wish to use a shortened version of Morning or Evening Prayer, and use additional prayers for morning, evening, and night, which are available here.
Our lectionaries for Hilary Term (24th January to 31st March) are available here, which will enable you to follow our lessons at home to structure your private prayer.
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During Lent
Dr E. B. Pusey, to whom our House stands as a memorial, described Lent as 'a season, not of going back, but of passing on, of inworking into life by His grace, what, by that grace, we have learned of humility or penitence, or prayer, or simplicity, of self-sacrificing love'.
You can download material to help you keep a holy Lent here, put together by our Principal Father George Westhaver, or more specifically on the Lenten practice of fasting here. |
Special Services
Baptisms take place throughout the year at Pusey House. For more information, follow this link.
If you would like to receive the sacrament of Confirmation, we can help you; just follow this link.
Confessions are heard regularly at Pusey House, find out more here.
If you would like to find out about what it means to take Holy Orders, 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.
If you would like to receive the sacrament of Confirmation, we can help you; just follow this link.
Confessions are heard regularly at Pusey House, find out more here.
If you would like to find out about what it means to take Holy Orders, 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.
The Chapel
'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 said 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, our Chapel is a place where prayer continues to be offered to God in the beauty of holiness every day.
If you've any questions, please email Jack Nicholson at pusey.chapel@stx.ox.ac.uk.