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Prayer and Worship Resources

This page collects links to resources that you might find helpful whilst our regular services in church are put on hold. Many of the pages are updated frequently, so please check for the latest information.

Service booklets

The Order of Mass for 27 September, celebrated as our Patronal Festival, Michael and All Angels. If you wish, please download a copy to your mobile device or print to bring to Mass that day. Printed copies of the short form will be provided in church.

• Short form - can be printed as an A5 booklet
• Full text

The Order of Mass for 20 September.

• Short form
• Full text

Resources accessible by telephone

• Diocesan Eucharist Recordings should be available from around 11am. Simply call 01865 920930 and, once connected, dial 0 for the full service or 1 for a short version. Standard call rates apply.
• For those unable to access a church service online, please use the Church of England's Daily Hope freephone number, dial 0800 804 8044, for daily hymns, reflections and prayers

On-line resources

• Parish of Abingdon Resources page. Contains service recordings and other resources
• A Candle in the Window, news and views from the parish of Abingdon-on-Thames. The seventh issue is now available. Members of St Michael's have contributed articles.
• Silent Reflections at Home materials from:
  • 27 September - Power in the Darkness
  • 25 August - Companions on our Journey: mothers, sisters, friends, companions ... and the communion of Saints
  • 28 July - Waiting with God - A Call for our Times?
  • 30 June - New Beginnings
  • 26 May - Spirit Sense
• Diocese of Oxford Church at Home page. The service starts at 10 am each Sunday.
• Oxford Cathedral on-line services There are some changes being made this month. The 8 am Said Eucharist will be broadcast following the installation of new live-streaming equipment. From 20 September a weekly podcast will replace the Matins sermon. Choral worship in the cathedral has resumed and Choral Evensong will be offered daily to the public at 6pm. A pre-recorded video service of Choral Evensong will be offered shortly. Check the Cathedral web site for more details and links.
• Oxford Cathedral blog (includes daily reflections)
• Church of England Daily Prayer
• Daily prayer for the current day that page also has links to the CoE Daily Prayer app.
• A simple form of Daily Prayer St Peter's Church, Earley, Reading
• Community of the Resurrection: live streaming and recordings of the community's daily round of prayer and praise See Worship and Live Streaming on the Community's web site for details of their services. There is a pattern and rhythm to their worship that some readers might find helpful.

For variety

• Ordinations to the diaconate and priesthood, postponed from June 2020, are being held at various churches around the diocese as well as in the cathedral. As social distancing rules severely limit the numbers able to attend in person, many of the services will be live-streamed and/or recorded. For details of ordinations on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September see the Diocesan Church at Home page
• Bishop Steven's address to Diocesan Synod in September 2020.
• Jerome, translator of the bible, teacher of the faith (420) is commemorated on 30 September. Readers might be interested to browse the web sites of the Bible Reading Fellowship and Wycliffe Bible Translators. The National Gallery has a portrait of Saint Jerome in his Study by Antonello da Messina (d. 1479).
• An on-line labyrinth.
• Community of St Mary the Virgin, Wantage
  • The Community have re-arranged Quiet Day originally planned for the summer in an online form. The Quiet day Betwixt St Fracis and St Luke, will be available as a takeaway from their website between October 16 and 31.
  • Some readers will be familiar with the work of the sculptor Nicholas Mynheer. He has been commissioned to carve a two metre statute of the Holy Mother and Child for the Community. He talks about the work and the creative process in this video. Lockdown has enabled him to make very good progress.
  • Sr Stella wrote a recent report on the Community which began "Roll up, roll up. Come and hear about a renewed sense of being called to the Religious Life in Wantage." She was asked to record the talk. It is very interesting listening.
• Walsingham
  • Mass will be live-streamed from the Holy House at 9 am every Sunday from 12 July
  • There is a daily live stream of Shrine Prayers at 6.00 pm. A guide to Shrine Prayers is available there together with recordings of previous instances.
• Cathedrals are responding to lockdown and the easing of lockdown in a variety of ways.
  • Norwich Our former Team Vicar, Peter Doll, is Canon Librarian of the Cathedral. Of particular interest is the Coronavirus memorial to those who have died from Corona virus in Norfolk
  • Oxford Now open for private prayer
  • Portsmouth Fr Paul was a priest in Portsmouth Diocese before moving to Abingdon
  • Sheffield Our former Team Vicar, Peter Bradley, is Dean of the Cathedral
  • Winchester
  • For a cathedral from the Province of York, readers might like to look at the web site of Wakefield Cathedral in the Diocese of Leeds.
• The History of Stations of the Cross A very interesting talk by an American Roman Catholic Franciscan brother. For information about Franciscan brothers and sisters in the Anglican Communion see the web site.
• Alone Together Reflections from monks and nuns on isolation and distancing, led by Fr Christopher Jamison, OSB.
• Thriving in Lockdown Br Marc CR speaks about his time in lockdown in this interview with Caleb Ellwood of York Gateway church.
• Some readers may remember The Revd Dr Joe Kennedy, a former curate at St Michael's. He is now vicar of the Parish of Oxton St Saviour, Wirral. The church's web site includes an on-line worship section.

Archives

• Christ Church Cathedral are archiving sound recordings of sermons, services and reflections on their SoundCloud site. There is already an extensive collection of recordings in this archive.
• The Diocese of Oxford also has a SoundCloud archive which includes recordings of services as well as talks given on Local Radio stations by the Bishops and clergy of the diocese.
• Recordings of Diocesan services can be viewed from their Vimeo site.

Service Booklets

Lightly modified versions of the service booklet for the liturgies that would traditionally be used at St Michael's are available to download.

• Palm Sunday
• Maundy Thursday
• Good Friday
• Easter Liturgy (Saturday evening)
• Pentecost.
• Corpus Christi