One of the major achievements of the last year was to be able to pay our parish share in full. This is the amount of money which each parish is asked to contribute to support the mission and ministry of…
Messy Church Fun
Great fun was had at our first ever Messy church on 10th January 2016 in Cuddesdon Village Hall. We had a number of tables with activities for children and their parents to enjoy on the theme of Visitors from the East:…
Christmas across the Benefice
Stepping Stones Christingle Workshop. Forms are at the back of the church to sign up for the workshop in Garsington school on 12th December from 10 to 12 noon. Our christingle service will be held in St Mary’s on unday…
Mission Sunday in aid of Us
On November 22nd we held a special Sunday in aid of Us. Elizabeth Taylor from Us gave a talk at the 9.30 am morning Service at St Mary’s which outlined the plight of many refugees. Her power point presentation is…
Advent across the Benefice
Advent Quiet Day on Friday 27th November in the Edward King chapel, led by Bishop Humphrey Southern. The full timetable for the day is: 9.15-10am Morning Prayer and Address I in Chapel, silence begins 12noon-1pm Eucharist and Address II in…
St Mary’s Book Group
The book group meets next on 14th January at 8pm at the Day’s house. the book we will be discussing is Godless Morality by Richard Holloway. ‘If God is the author of our moral code, how can we challenge it?…
New Julian Group
Parsnips and Prayers When was the last time that you had half an hour of total quiet to yourself? Last week? Last month? Last Year? Or perhaps it is a long distant memory before the kids came along. In a…
Village cross to War memorial
In the section that describes Cuddesdon in Volume V of The Victoria County History of Oxford (VCH), there is a footnote. It is on page 100 and it simply reads: ‘The cross was moved in 1857’. The text on the…
Ancient beech tree to come down at Cuddesdon
Bishop Humphrey Southern, Principal of the College, writes: As you are probably aware, on Sunday afternoon (20th September 2015) and without warning a very large bough fell from the beech tree in the middle of the turning circle at the…
Celebrating the Benefice
On Sunday 6th September we woke up to a glorious early autumn day. The first mists soon dissipated in the sunshine ready for our day of walking between the three parishes of St Mary’s Garsington, All Saint’s Cuddesdon and St Giles’…