Services in October 2025

Weekday Morning Prayer is 9am Tuesday - Friday at St Barnabas.
On Monday mornings, Morning Prayer is at 9.15am.

Sunday 5 October - Trinity 16 (Care of Creation Sunday)
8.00am: Low Mass (Celebrant: The Revd Lucie Spiers
10.30am: All Age High Mass (Celebrant: The Vicar; Preacher: Andrea Alvord Wood)
6.30pm: Evening Prayer

Monday 6 October - St Bruno, priest
9.15am: Morning Prayer

Tuesday 7 October - Our Lady of the Rosary
9.00am: Morning Prayer
9.30am: Low Mass followed by coffee

Wednesday 8 October - Feria
9.00am: Morning Prayer
12.30pm: Low Mass (at St Thomas the Martyr)

Thursday 9 October - St John Henry Newman
9.00am: Morning Prayer
5.00pm: Holy Hour (with confessions)
6.00pm: Low Mass

Friday 10 October- St Paulinus of York
9.00am: Morning Prayer

Saturday 11 October Feria
5.00pm: Sung Compline at St Thomas the Martyr

Sunday 12 October - Trinity 17
8.00am: Low Mass (Celebrant: The Vicar)
10.30am: All Age High Mass (Celebrant and Preacher: The Revd Lucie Spiers)
6.30pm: Evening Prayer

Monday 13 October - St Edward the Confessor
9.15am: Morning Prayer

Tuesday 14 October - Feria
9.00am: Morning Prayer
9.30am: Low Mass followed by coffee

Wednesday 15 October - St Teresa of Avila, Mystic
9.00am: Morning Prayer
12.30pm: Low Mass (at St Thomas the Martyr)

Thursday 16 October - Feria
9.00am: Morning Prayer
5.00pm: Holy Hour (with confessions)
6.00pm: Low Mass

Friday 17 October- St Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop
9.00am: Morning Prayer

Sunday 19 October - ST FRIDESWIDE, PATRON OF OXFORD; DEDICATION FESTIVAL
8.00am: Low Mass (Celebrant: The Vicar)
10.30am: All Age High Mass (Celebrant: The Vicar; Preaching and Presiding from the Throne: The Rt Revd Robert Atwell, sometime Bishop of Exeter)
6.30pm: Evensong & Benediction

Monday 20 October - Feria
9.15am: Morning Prayer

Tuesday 21 October - Feria
9.00am: Morning Prayer
9.30am: Low Mass followed by coffee

Wednesday 22 October - St John Paul II
9.00am: Morning Prayer
12.30pm: Low Mass (at St Thomas the Martyr)

Thursday 23 October - Feria
9.00am: Morning Prayer
5.00pm: Holy Hour (with confessions)
6.00pm: Low Mass

Friday 24 October- St Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop
9.00am: Morning Prayer

Sunday 26 October - Trinity 19
8.00am: Low Mass (Celebrant: The Revd Lucie Spiers
10.30am: All Age High Mass (Celebrant: The Revd Lucie Spiers; Preacher: Jenny Pittaway, LLM)
6.30pm: Evening Prayer

Monday 27 October - St Edward the Confessor
No Morning Prayer today

Tuesday 28 October - Ss Simon and Jude, Apostles
9.00am: Morning Prayer
9.30am: Low Mass followed by coffee

Wednesday 29 October - Feria
9.00am: Morning Prayer
12.30pm: Low Mass (at St Thomas the Martyr)

Thursday 30 October - Feria
9.00am: Morning Prayer
5.00pm: Holy Hour (with confessions)
6.00pm: Low Mass

Friday 31 October- All Hallows’ Eve
9.00am: Morning Prayer

Sunday Services

8.00am: Low Mass
(a quiet, short service in the beautiful Lady Chapel of St Barnabas Church. Doors open at 7.30am approximately. The service finishes at 8.30am. No music, no sermon.)

10.30am: High Mass
(Experience a full-on sensory timeless service, with incense, bells, beautiful choral music, well-loved hymns, colourful vestments, poetic language, and a short but relevant sermon. All finishes with coffee hour, to which newcomers are very welcome. The service lasts about 75 minutes)

6.30pm: Evening Prayer
(a contemplative service at the end of Sunday, with spoken prayers and two hymns. We all sit together in the choir stalls near the altar, which creates an an intimate yet devotional atmosphere. The service is over by 7pm)

Services on Sundays are at St Barnabas.

Weekday services

9.00am: Morning Prayer
(this service is a short and quiet service of prayers and scripture readings. The service is from the traditional Book of Common Prayer and lasts for 15-20 minutes). This takes place Tuesday-Friday in the choir stalls at St Barnabas. On Mondays, Morning Prayer begins at 9.15am

Daily Mass (times vary - see opposite)
(The tradition of a ‘daily mass’ is one that has roots in the early Church but was essentially part of the vision of renewal of the spiritual life by the Oxford Movement advocates of which our parish was a central part. To receive communion on a weekday allows us to consecrate the day to God and to receive the spiritual food and drink to nourish our faith on our daily journey.)

unless otherwise stated:
Morning Prayer is at St Barnabas
Mass on Tuesdays and Thursdays is at St Barnabas
Mass on Wednesdays is at St Thomas the Martyr

Confessions are heard at 5.00pm on Thursdays, or by appointment with the Vicar