Sunday Feb 23rd: Second Sunday before Lent
8am Holy Communion. President: Revd Jane Hedges
10am Parish Eucharist withForest Sunday School. President: Revd Emily Hockliffe Essex. Preacher: Revd Canon David Knight. Organist: Andrew Patterson
Midweek Services
Morning Prayer: 9am Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Lady Chapel.
Midweek Communion: Wednesdays at 10am
Sunday Mar 22nd: Sunday next before Lent
8am Holy Communion
10am Parish Eucharist with Forest Sunday School
A prayer for the vacancy
God of vision and hope,
we thank you for all who have ministered here throughout the history of this church.
In this time of vacancy,
may we continue to grow in love,
share in responsibility,
and seek your vision for our future,
in the name of Jesus Christ, our shepherd and our guide.
Amen.
HTHQ 175 Talking History
The HTHQ175 committee have put together a programme of talks celebrating Holy Trinity’s 175th Anniversary year:
Tuesday 4 March History of the Quarry Maurice East
Wednesday 9 April Racial Justice Revd Emily Hockliffe Essex
Wednesday 7 May Morris Dancing (speaker TBC)
Wednesday 4 June Our changing church Revd Canon Dr Margaret Whipp
All talks are in church. The evening begins with refreshments at 6.45pm, the talk beginning at 7pm, and discussions close at 7.45pm. All are welcome.
Lent Course
This year’s Lent course will be held on Wednesday evenings, 7-8pm with refreshments served from 6.45pm. This will be an opportunity to explore the landscape of prayer and how we can deepen our relationship with God through different forms of prayer. Experts and novices alike are welcome. For more information contact Emily (curate@hthq.uk)
Electoral Roll: Request for Email Addresses
Our electoral roll is a list of our regular members, informing the Church of England about who we are, and signifying a right to vote on matters at the APCM. According to Church of England rules, every six years the roll must be discarded and a completely new one made, and this is due to happen this year before the APCM. We will be contacting all our electoral roll members to let them know when it’s time to sign up again, but to facilitate this it would be helpful to have email contacts where possible.
Please consider sending your email address to our electoral roll officer, Joan Jones (joan@joneses.org.uk) with your permission to add this information to the electoral roll records.
Advance notice of a Regular Giving Appeal as part of our parish fundraising.
A group led by our Treasurer, Richard Stoneman, has been meeting in recent months to look in detail at our church finances and at what we need to meet our obligations and to strengthen what we do as a church. With input from the Diocese we have decided to hold a Regular Giving Appeal. Around the start of Lent (on Sundays 2nd March, 9th March and 16th March) there will be a focus on giving and faith and developing a visionfor our ministry and work. On 9th March we will be visited by the Generous Giving Advisor for the Diocese, Joshua Townson, who will talk at the 10am service.
To start giving through the Parish Giving Scheme:
(i) access the Scheme’s website through the QR code below and click on “Regular Giving,” or visit https://www.parishgiving.org.uk/donors/find-your-parish/headington-quarry-holy-trinity-oxford/
(ii) call the Scheme on 0333 002 1271, Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm, and they will take all of the information needed to complete a new Direct Debit instruction for you.
Our Community Café is now up and running: 9.30am-11.30am on Tuesday mornings. All are welcome, and most especially families with young children, as the meeting room will be set up for tots to play.
This week’s Eco Tips
Last tip about bird life! In the interests of biodiversity, get ready to sow seeds for bird- (and insect-) friendly flowering plants.
Hilary Rollin, Eco Group
Eco Resources for Spring 2025
For suggestions on information re Eco Matters, including reading material, links to Zoom sessions etc. go to Eco Church resources
Pastoral care team
Are you in need of support or would you like to talk to someone? We rely on you to let us know of anyone who is ill, or in hospital or who might welcome a visit. Please contact any of the clergy (numbers on back page) or Janet Masters, Anne Tarassenko, or Ruth Wooldridge.
