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.

Thank you to everyone for your support, prayers and friendship on the occasion of my being made a Canon last Tuesday at St. Chad’s Cathedral.  I think the photograph tells the whole story, although you may want to provide a caption!

If you want to see more photographs or watch a recording of the whole service go to: www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/news/two-new-canons-installed-at-st-chads-cathedral

Sacred Heart Youth Group.  There will be the annual outing for young people to the Malvern hills on Sunday, 21^st June.  Please speak to Joyce for more information.

Sacred Heart Parish Day.  Saturday, 11^th July.  This looks like being a great day, with games and stalls.  There are also some incredible prizes to be won in the raffle, and raffle tickets are on sale at the back of church as you leave today.

Oxford Corpus Christi Procession, This afternoon, Sunday, 7^th June, at 3.00 pm. Please note the reversal of direction this year. It will begin at Oxford University Catholic Chaplaincy on Rose Place (OC1 1RD) and will conclude with Benediction at the Oratory Church. See poster at the church porch.

Harvington History Festival returns from 22–26 July with a fascinating programme of talks, tours, and events exploring history at Harvington Hall, the Archdiocese’s historic moated manor house known for its priest hides. For more info or to book, visit: harvingtonhall.co.uk

Legion of Mary.  A new “Praesidium” has been set up at Our Lady Help of Christians, meeting on Friday evenings, after the 7.00 pm Mass.  It is still a small group and they would welcome new members.  Just come along and try it.

Tailpiece: The World Cup starts this week, so here is a cautionary tale.  There were two football-mad friends, and one of them fell ill. The other came to visit him and said, “When you die, do me a favour. I want to know if there’s football in heaven.” The dying man said, “Alright, I’ll let you know.” And then he died. A couple of nights later, the man was sleeping when he heard his friend’s voice. “I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that there is football in heaven.”  “What’s the bad news?”  “You’re playing in goal next Wednesday.”

May God bless you and all those whom you love.

Fr. Harry

For more details please see the Newsletter for the week.