Welcome to the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church Oxford

Sacred Heart Church in Blackbird Leys, Oxford is part of the Archdiocese of Birmingham. We hope that you will find our website useful and enjoy searching through the various aspects of life in the parish. Here you will be able to check our weekly newsletter, news and forthcoming parish events, read about how to go about with Sacramental preparation and find out Mass times and other services.

Whatever your reason for visiting us, we pray that God will bless your search and grant you many blessings

Parish Priest : Fr. Harry Curtis

(Also serving Our Lady of Christians, Cowley, 01865 770910)

E-mail : fr.harry.curtis@rcaob.org.uk

Parish Secretary : Reena Bartrip

10:00 am – 1:00 pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

Telephone : 01865 455182

E-mail : sacredheart.oxford@rcaob.org.uk

This Parish operates in accordance with Statutory Safeguarding Guidance and the National and Archdioceses policies & procedures at all times. At present, our Parish Safeguarding Representative is Onyi Anyanwu. She can be contacted at: sg.sacredheart.oxford@rcaob.org.uk or alternatively the Diocesan Safeguarding team can be contacted on 0121 230 6240/ safeguarding@rcaob.org.uk if you have any concern. For more details, visit the page Safeguarding.

Wednesday: The Chrism Mass.  The Archbishop will celebrate the Chrism Mass at 11.30 am on Wednesday morning in St. Chad’s Cathedral.  It is the occasion when the Holy Oils are blessed, and also when priests renew their commitment of service to God and the Church.

Maundy Thursday: The Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 7.00 pm on Maundy Thursday evening is the end of Lent and the start of the Easter Triduum.  At this Mass we celebrate the institution of the Sacraments of the Eucharist and the Priesthood.

Watching at the Altar of Repose.  After the Mass we shall go to the Altar of Repose and keep watch with Jesus, remembering His Agony in the Garden and His acceptance of His Father’s will.

Good Friday: On Good Friday there is no Mass, but at 3.00 pm, the hour at which our Lord died, there is a “Solemn Celebration” of the Passion of our Lord.

Holy Saturday: The Lord’s Day of Rest in the tomb.  In the evening at 8.00 pm we begin our Easter celebrations with the Easter Vigil, the greatest event in the Church’s year.

Gift Aid Envelopes.  If you gift aid your weekly offerings in the collection (thank you), please collect your new box of envelopes from the back of church today.

Please pray for the sick, especially people we know: Bridie Barry, Josie Griffiths, Claire French, Inna, Jean Carpenter, Beatrice Upham, Terry Jackson, Mary Cross, Sheila Cuddy, Rosa Fernandes, Maggie Durkin, Tony Davis, John Hudgell, Pat Walsh, Doreen Teagle, Mary Barry, Mary Cairns, Lisa Birch and Julio Madeira Cabral Soares. 

Please pray for Sheila Jennings, Anne Rhodes, Julia Scully, John Lillis, Gladys (“Bonnie”) Trowell who died recently, and all whose anniversaries fall at this time: Archbishop Thomas Leighton Williams, Mgr. Canon Daniel Leonard, Frs. Thomas Cockburn, Matthew Sheridan, John Callaghan, Philip O’Reilly and Lawrence King, Dcn. Raymond Zacaroli, and also Breda Keenan, Patricia Conway, Elizabeth Conry, Collette McNarry, Mary Teresa Heavey, Mick Mullagh, Charlie O’Connor, Betty Kellett, James Craig, Julia Moran and Mary Batten. 

Eucharistic Ministers will be re-commissioned during the Mass of the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday.

The collection on Good Friday is for the Holy Places – i.e. for the upkeep of the sites in the Holy Land.

Traditionally the collection at the Easter Masses is your personal offering to your priest.  There are envelopes at the back of church if you wish.  Thank you.

Welcome to Bishop Richard Walker.  I am very grateful to Bishop Richard who will be here at Sacred Heart on Maundy Thursday and Holy Saturday.  On Good Friday I shall be here, and Bishop Richard will be at Our Lady’s.    

Easter Triduum.  There is a list on the table at the back of church for people to sign up for roles this week.

May God bless you and all your loved ones.

Fr. Harry

For more details please see the Newsletter for the week.