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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 9 August. 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 2 August.

• Short form - as 9 August
• Full text

Resources accessible by telephone

• The Diocesan Church at Home services resume on Sunday 6 September. Until then, please use the Daily Hope service below.
• Daily Hope A Church of England resource offering hymns, prayers and reflections as well as full services via a freephone number 0800 804 8044.

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 sixth issue is now available. Members of St Michael's have contributed articles.
• Silent Reflections at Home materials from:
  • 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. During August a range of family, all-age, modern and traditional services will be available. Two different churches are streaming their services each Sunday. Please check the web page for service times as these vary. The Diocesan Church at Home services resume on Sunday 6 September. 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
• Oxford Cathedral on-line services (includes service booklets and sermons)
• 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

• Florence Nightingale, nurse and social reformer, is commemorated in the calendar on 13 August. This year is the 200th anniversary of her birth. A lot of events planned for the year have been cancelled due to Covid-19, though many more are being made available on-line. Some resources that readers might find of interest. Her work included the development of pioneering techniques in statistics and data visualization.
  • Florence Nightingale Museum at St Thomas' Hospital
  • Florence Nightingale, first female Fellow of the (Royal) Statistical Society
  • Data visualization in healthcare: the Florence effect
• 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 – 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.
• John Keble, priest and poet, is commemorated on 14^th July. Readers might like to browse the web site of Keble College Oxford. In the chapel section there is a link to the chapel's YouTube channel which includes recordings of various services and choir music.
• Wadham College Chapel, University of Oxford The Revd Dr Jane Baun,Chaplain of Wadham College and Honorary Assistant Priest in our parish has suggested that readers might enjoy watching the five Evensong films that have been made at Wadham Chapel. They are available on the Chapel's YouTube channel. They feature student contributions, and introduction and prayers filmed on location around Oxford, including Boar's Hill (complete with bleating sheep) and the Thames towpath. Pentecost (wk 6) features beautiful sign-language interpretation.
• 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