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.
Enquiries about the Catholic Faith, Friday, 4.30 pm, at Our Lady’s in the Don Bosco Centre. This week’s subject: “Marriage, Ordination, and the Anointing of the Sick”. All welcome.
Bishop Richard’s Visitation. Bishop Richard will be coming to visit Our Lady’s Parish and Sacred Heart Parish on the weekend of 21st/22nd February. There will be a meeting in the hall here on Sunday, 22nd February, at 4.30 pm. Please try to come to it if you possibly can.
Altar Servers. Some new servers came yesterday, and there will be a second training session here at Sacred Heart this Saturday, 14th February, at 11.00 am. You can still come if you missed the first session.
Eucharistic Ministers. We need several more Ministers of Holy Communion. If you feel that God is calling you to serve in this way, please come and see me. I shall arrange a training day soon.
First Holy Communion Lessons. There will be a meeting for parents at 4.00 pm this Thursday, 12th February, in the Don Bosco Centre at Our Lady’s. Lessons for the children will start there at 3.30 pm on Thursday, 26th February.
Ash Wednesday is just one week on Wednesday! If you have any old palms that you no longer want, please bring them in (no later than next Sunday) so that we can burn them after Mass (weather permitting) to make our ashes.
World Day Of Prayer For The Sick. Wednesday, 11th February, the Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes. In his message for this Day, Pope Leo XIV takes up the parable of the Good Samaritan as a central image of Christian charity: to truly love means to stop, to draw near, and to care for those who suffer. Compassion, in fact, is not only a feeling but translates into concrete gestures and shared commitment, particularly towards the sick. In this perspective, caring for the sick and the most fragile is one of the clearest signs of fidelity to the Gospel.
Annual Diocesan Thanksgiving Mass for Marriage. Married couples who are celebrating a milestone anniversary, and couples preparing to marry this year are invited to the Diocesan Thanksgiving Mass for Marriage at St Chad’s Cathedral in Birmingham on Saturday, 2nd May, at 12.00 noon, followed by light refreshments. For info, and to register please visit www.vocations.org.uk/marriage-mass
40 Hours of Eucharistic Adoration will take place in St. John Henry Newman’s Chapel at Littlemore from Friday 13th February to Sunday 15th February. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed from Friday, 9:30 am – 9:00 pm, and on Saturday and Sunday from 7:00 am – 9:00 pm. There will be possibilities for Confession.
Tailpiece: For a change this week, here is a sneaky test of intelligence and observation. Give me your answers in writing and I shall draw a winner from a hat. (Prize: a box of chocolates). Answers will be published next week.
1) Some months have 30 days; some months have 31 days. How many months have 28 days?
2) If a doctor gives you 3 pills and tells you to take one pill every half hour, how long will it be before all the pills have been taken?
3) Do they have the Fifth of November in Australia?
4) Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What do you get?
5) A farmer had 17 sheep. All but 9 died. How many did he have left?
6) If you had only one match and entered a cold, dark room, where there was an oil heater, an oil lamp and some kindling wood, which would you light first?
7) A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction, each side having a southern exposure. A big bear comes wandering by. What colour is the bear?
8) Take 2 apples from 3 apples. How many do you have?
9) How many animals of each species did Moses take into the Ark?
10) If you drove a bus with 42 people on board from Oxford and stopped at Kidlington to pick up 7 more people and drop off 5 passengers, and again at Banbury to drop off 8 passengers and pick up 4 more, and eventually arrive at Edinburgh 20 hours later, what is the driver’s name?
May God bless you and all those who are dear to you.
Fr. Harry
For more details please see the Newsletter for the week.
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