Term Card Hillary 2020

Sadly, from 20th March our events have had to be cancelled due to the Coronavirus epidemic.

February

Wed 26th: Ash Wednesday

6pm Sung Mass, SS Gregory & Augustine's

March

Fri 6th, Ember Friday, 7:30pm Sung Mass, English Martyrs, Didcot

Sunday 15th, 12 noon Sung Mass, SS Gregory & Augustine's

Saturday 21st, 11:30am High Mass, Our Lady and St Anne, Caversham

Sunday 22nd, 11am Sung Mass, Holy Trinity, Hethe

Wednesday 25th: Annunciation of the BVM

6pm Sung Mass, SS Gregory & Augustine's

Welcome to the OUGCS: Michaelmas Term 2019

Here is our Term Card

Regular opportunities to sing:

Sundays, 5pm, Holy Rood,

Abingdon Road

1st Week

Dominican Chant

Saturday 19th Oct 11am

Oxford Blackfriars

3rd Week

All Saints

Friday 1st Nov 6pm

SS Gregory & Augustine’s Woodstock Rd

4th Week

Annual Requiem

Saturday 9th Nov 10:30am

St Benet's Hall

6th Week

St Cecelia

Friday 22nd Nov 7:30pm

English Martyrs Church, Didcot

9th Week

St Lucy

Friday 13th Dec 6pm

SS Gregory & Augustine’s, Oxford

Trinity and Summer Vacation Term Card

Note: Masses in bold are Schola Masses where student singer may receive a stipend; other Masses are those at which we are invited to participate.

4th Week

Sunday 19th May

12 noon, Sung Mass at SS Gregory & Augustine's

5th Week

Thurs 30th May: Ascension

6pm Sung Mass at SS Gregory & Augustine's

7th Week

Sunday 9th June: Whitsun

12 noon Sung Mass, Holy Trinity, Hethe

Saturday 15th June: Whit Saturday (Ember Sat of Pentecost)

10:30am Sung or High Mass, Holy Rood Church, Abingdon Road, Oxford

8th Week

Sunday 16th June: Trinity Sunday

12 noon Sung Mass at SS Gregory & Augustine's

Thurs 20th June: Corpus Christi

6pm Sung Mass at SS Gregory & Augustine's

Long Vacation

Friday 28th June: Sacred Heart

6pm Sung Mass at SS Gregory & Augustine's

Saturday 29th June: SS Peter & Paul

10:30am Sung Mass at SS Gregory & Augustine's

Tuesday 2nd July: Visitation

7:30pm English Martyrs, Didcot

Sun 28th July

12 noon Sung Mass at SS Gregory & Augustine's

Tues 6th August: Transfiguration

6pm Sung Mass at SS Gregory & Augustine's

Thurs 15th August: Assumption

6pm Sung Mass at SS Gregory & Augustine's

Sunday 18th August

12 noon Sung Mass at SS Gregory & Augustine's

Hillary & Easter Vacation 2019 Term Card

Schola Masses plus, in italics, other Masses where we are invited to join the singers.

Times refer to services, nor rehearsals.

2nd Week

Sun 20th Jan: 2nd After Epiphany

Mass at 12 noon, SS Gregory & Augustine's, Oxford

3rd Week

Sat 2nd Feb: Candlemas (Purification)

Mass at 10:30am, SS Gregory & Augustine's, Oxford

4th Week

Sat 9th Feb: St Cyril of Alexandria (Dominican Chant)

Mass at 11:30am, St Dominic's, Haverstock Hill, London

6th Week

Sun 17th Feb: Septuagesima Sunday

Mass at 12 noon, SS Gregory & Augustine's, Oxford

8th Week

Wed 6th March: Ash Wednesday

Mass at 6pm, SS Gregory & Augustine's, Oxford

Easter Vacation

Sat 16th March: Ember Sat of Lent, LMS Pilgrimage to Caversham

Mass at 11:30am, Our Lady and St Anne, Caversham, Reading

Sun 17th March: 2nd Sunday in Lent

Mass at 12 noon, SS Gregory & Augustine's, Oxford

Tues 19th March: St Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Mass at 7:30pm, English Martyrs, Didcot

Masses in Michaelmas 2019

The Schola sang at some beautiful Masses this term, in a number of different places: Blackfriars, St Benet's Hall, SS Gregory & Augustine's in the Woodstock Road and as far away as Bedford.

Above is Dominic Bevan, who led most of these Masses; below is our guest director, Prof Peter Kwasniewski.

Term Card for Michaelmas 2018

Michaelmas Term 2018

(times refer to services, not rehearsals)

2nd Week

Advance rehearsal/audition: Thursday 18th Oct, 6:30pm

Saturday 20th Oct

Oxford Pilgrimage: Votive Mass of the Martyrs of Oxford University

11am, Blackfriars, St Giles Oxford

3rd Week

Friday 26th Oct

Votive Mass of St Gregory the Great

6pm SS Gregory & Augustine's, Woodstock Road, Oxford

Guest director: Prof Peter Kwasniewski

5th Week
Advance rehearsal: Thursday 8th Oct, 6:30pm

Saturday 10th Nov

Bedford Pilgrimage

Votive Mass of Our Lady of Guadalupe

St Joseph's, Bedford

Guest Director: Matthew Schellhorn

7th Week

Saturday 24th Nov
Annual Requiem, St Benet's Hall
11am, 38 St Benet's Hall, St Giles, Oxford

8th Week

Wednesday 28th Nov

Votive Mass of Our Lady of Guadalupe

6pm SS Gregory & Augustine's, Woodstock Road, Oxford

Last Masses of Term

The final Masses of term included an annual celebration in the historic chapel of Milton Manor House, where the schola sings in an unusual loft with windows opening into the chapel: below.

The last one of all was an unusual Mass of Reparation, a Votive Mass 'for the remission of sin', celebrated in SS Gregory & Augustine's, Oxford: above. Both of these Masses were led by Dominic Bevan.



And so another academic year comes to an end. This year the Schola Abelis has sung at a larger number of churches than in recent years. We now have a regular termly slot in the English Martyrs, Didcot, in Holy Rood, Abingdon Road, in Blackfriars in Oxford, and in SS Gregory & Augustine's, as well as annual events in Milton Manor, Caversham, St Benet's Hall, and Long Crendon.

The Schola also plays a major part in the general availability of singers with experience of Chant to come along and sing at other Masses taking place in Oxford.

In both ways we are fulfilling the purposes for which we were established: to make chant available for the celebration of the traditional Catholic liturgy in the Oxford area. We have also had a lot of fun along the way.

If you are reading this and are interested in singing Gregorian Chant in the 2018/19 academic year, contact us using the email address on the sidebar. We can also tell you about opportunities to sing, or hear chant sung, in Oxford over the Long Vacation.