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Deus   Scientiarum    Dominus

             Hilary Term 2021
                 Pusey House
                       St Giles
  puseyhouse.org.uk

Sundays
11.00 AM                             HIGH MASS & SERMON

10th January (0th week)              The Principal
Epiphany I                           Free Thinking

17th January (1st week)              The Chaplain
Epiphany II                          What do you give someone who has everything?

24th January (2nd week)              The Principal
Epiphany III                         Inside-Out healing

31st January (3rd week)              The Venerable Jonathan Chaffey
Septuagesmia                         Archdeacon of Oxford

7th February (4th week)              The Chaplain
Sexegesima                           If your skin was soil how long until they’d start digging?

14th February (5th week)             The Principal
Quinquagesima                        Love’s Re-creation

21st February (6th week)             The Chaplain
Lent I                               Wafer thin?

28th February (7th week)             The Rev’d Canon Dr Robin Ward
Lent II                              Principal, St Stephen’s House, Oxford

7th March (8th week)                 TBD
Lent III

14th March (9th week)                The Rev’d James Mosher
Lent IV

Special Services

Friday 29th January                  The Rev’d Philip Corbett, SSC
The Eve of Charles King and Martyr   Parish Priest, All Saints’ Notting Hill and St Michael’s
High Mass (1662 BCP) 6pm             Ladbroke Grove.

Tuesday 2nd February                 The Rev’d Stephen McCarthy
Candlemas                            DPhil Candidate
High Mass 6pm

Wednesday 17th February
Ash Wednesday High Mass with
Imposition of Ashes 12pm.
Low Mass 6pm.

        Details about Holy Week and Easter will be available later in the term.

Weekday Services MONDAY TO FRIDAY 4th October to 6th December (0th - 9th week)
Morning Prayer at 8.00am, Evening Prayer (live-streamed) at 5.30pm.
On Wednesdays, Evening Prayer is followed by Mass with sermon at 6pm.
On Fridays, the Litany is during Morning Prayer.

Diary Discipleship Discussions: Will take place Mondays from 2nd to 9th week from 6.30pm to
7.30pm via Zoom. For the first half of term (2nd to 5th week) we will discuss Rowan William’s Why
Study the Past: the quest for the historical church. Jack Nicholson will faciliate these discussions
on how we might think about history-and time- in relation to our Christian discipleship. In the second
half of term (6th to 9th week) our Discipleship discussions will discuss C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape
Letters. Lewis’s insightful and convicting look into the working of the human soul athrough satirical
letters from a senior to a junior devil makes it a perfect text to focus ourselves through prayer, and
reflection during Lent. It will be faciliated by Alex Fels. Please speak to Alex Fels (pusey.office@stx.
ox.ac.uk) for more information.

Scriptorium: The Oxford Scriptorium is a study group providing time and space to work, regular
breaks, prayer and academic community. We seek to place our work within the context of our vocation
to seek God’s wisdom and truth in all things. This term Scriptorium meets Tuesdays, Wednesdays and
Thursdays on Zoom. Our day begins and ends with prayer at 9:25 and 5:20pm in the Chapel. All are
most welcome. Please contact Richard Keeble for details (pusey.sacristan@stx.ox.ac.uk).

Common Good: Part of being faithful to our roots in the Oxford movement involves being faithful
to the call of Christ to love our neighbour. A significant way we do this through compassion to those
most vulnerable and in need. This term we are looking to renew our attention to common good
through common prayer and by putting together a list of volunteers who would be willing to receive
specific invitations to help, whenever needs arise in our congregation or wider community. Contact
Alex Fels (pusey.office@stx.ox.ac.uk) or the Chaplain for further information.
Lectures The Recollection Series: Wednesdays of 4th, 6th, and 8th week at 4.00 pm in the Chapel:
The Hilary Term Recollection Series will be available on Zoom.
See the website for details or contact Jack Nicholson (pusey.chapel@stx.ox.ac.uk)
February 10th (4th week): Beginningless remaking in Julian of Norwich’s vernacular
theology by Dr Godelinde Perk who is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Faculty of
Medieval and Modern Langauages, Univesity of Oxford and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at
Somerville College. Dr Perk will lecture on Vernacular theologian Julian of Norwich, (c. 1343 –
c. 1416). Julian devoted much of her adult life to revising the account of her visionary
experience. The earlier, shorter “Vision Showed to a Devout Woman” and the later, longer “Revelation
of Love” both bear witness to incessant reviewing of form and content.
February 24th (6th week): The two recpetions of Avicenna: Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus by
Dr Daniel de Haan who is a Reasearch Fellow in the Ian Ramsay Centre for Sience and Religion in the
Faculty of Theology and Religion, Universtiy of Oxford. Dr de Haan will explore what
Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus learned about being and God from their careful readings of
Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Shifā’.
March 10th (8th week): Luther and Augustine by Phillip Cary, Professor of Philosophy at Eastern
University. Professor Carey will explore how Luther’s famous law-gospel distinction is best
understood as a development of Augustine’s law-grace distinction, taking the gospel as an external
means of grace.

pusey house

Pusey House offers a full round of daily worship, opportunities for engaging with the
intellectual life of the University, and a hospitable and growing body of students and others
actively nurturing vocations and lives of Christian discipleship.
During the 19th century Oxford was the centre of a revival of Church life which affected the
whole of the Church of England, and had its influence far beyond. Dr E. B. Pusey, who for
more than fifty years was Regius Professor of Hebrew and a Canon of Christ Church, was at
the very heart of this Catholic Revival which became known as the Oxford Movement. In
1884 Pusey House was founded in memory of him as a centre of prayer, theological study and
pastoral care.
The House has always been known for its lively presentation of the Catholic Faith as received
by the Church of England. Drawing on this tradition, we seek to build a community where
thoughtful and robust faith is nourished by rich worship so that those who find a home at
Pusey House are formed in Christ for service in the Church and in the world.
THE FRIENDS OF PUSEY HOUSE provide important additional support for its work and
regular news and updates from the House. If you are interested in becoming a Friend, please
see our website www.puseyhouse.org.uk/friends-of-pusey
or contact the Secretary to the Friends Mr Ian Palmer (pusey.society@stx.ox.ac.uk)
THE LIBRARY is normally open to all Monday-Friday 9.30-5.25 for study space and open
shelf books. For special arrangements during lock-down please see the library section of
the website. Please contact pusey.librarian@stx.ox.ac.uk to access archives and closed stack
materials. Dr Pusey’s own books, purchased after his death, form the heart of the collection,
which is a leading Anglo-Catholic library and archive in the UK.
CONFESSION AND SPIRITUAL DIRECTION is a regular and important part of the
ministry of the house, and you are welcome to discuss this with the Principal or Chaplain.
They are available to hear confessions by appointment or in chapel on Mondays 8.30 to 9.00am
and Fridays 5.00 to 5.20.

                         THE CHAPTER OF PUSEY HOUSE

      Dr Jonathan Price          The Rev’d Dr George Westhaver           The Rev’d Mark Stafford
     John & Daria Barry                     Principal                           Chaplain
     Lay Academic Fellow
                                         Jessica Woodward
                                               Libarian
          Sacristan: Richard John Keeble               Master of the Music: David Bannister ARCO
            Steward: Karen Westhaver                        Organist: Laurence John ARCO
                                           Chapel Interns:
                              Alex Fels, James Mosher, Jack Nicholson
                 pusey.office@stx.ox.ac.uk                                    Oxford, OX1 3LZ
                 www.puseyhouse.org.uk                                           01865 278415