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 : Rev. Canon 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.

Mass for the Sick, with the Sacrament of Anointing, here on Saturday, 17^th October, at 1.00 pm.  If you know of anyone who is sick and/or housebound who might like to attend if they are given help with transport, please tell them about it, and let me know about them.

Sacred Heart Christmas Bazaar.  This year our annual parish bazaar will take place on Saturday, 5^th December. Raffle tickets will be on sale after Mass today. Please take some to sell and bring the stubs and money back to Jacqui in good time before the bazaar. Please put the date in your diary, and if you can donate a prize for the raffle, please check the list in the porch.

November Mass for the Dead – for our relations and friends who have died, especially those who have died during the last twelve months, 11.00 am, Saturday, 7^th November.  Please let me know in writing if you would like anyone’s name to be included among those who have died during the last year.

Prisoners’ Sunday.  Today we remember prisoners and their families at Mass.  Prisons are in crisis, and life for prisoners and their families in our communities is challenging.  PACT is the national Catholic prison charity, supports prisoners, their families and their children, offering them hope and the chance to turn their lives around.  We pray for them today.

World Mission Sunday.  Next Sunday is a day when we remember the work of our brothers and sisters to spread the Gospel around the world.  There will be a second collection at Masses for Missio, the Holy Father’s official charity for overseas mission.  

Mass Intentions.  The diary for Mass intentions for 2027 is now available.  If you wish to arrange for a Mass to be said for your intentions please see Joyce.

Tailpiece: A dietitian was giving a lecture: “The material we eat is not good for us.  Red meat is awful. Soft drinks erode your stomach lining.  Take-away food is loaded with monosodium glutamates.  Vegetables can be disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term harm caused by the germs in our drinking water.  But there is one thing that is most dangerous of all and we all have, or will have, eaten it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating it?”  An elderly man in the front row stood up and said, “Wedding cake”.

May God bless you and all those whom you love.

Fr. Harry

For more details please see the Newsletter for the week.