This Sunday
12th / 13th July 2025
15th Sunday in OT Yr C
Retiring Collection – Stella Maris, (The Apostleship of the Sea)
The Saturday Vigil
6.00pm – St Thomas More KidlingtonSunday
9.30am – St Hugh of Lincoln, Woodstock
11am – St Thomas More, Kidlington – zoomedLive Interactive Holy Mass Sunday at 11am (come by 10.50 only 97 logins available so come early).
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Parish YouTube channel click here – Our Sunday Mass at 11am is Live streamed on YouTube and you can join interactively on Zoom.
Readings & Prayers
Children’s Activity for this Week
A ‘Little Thought’ to ponder for this Sunday ~ Fr Prem
Taken from ‘The Living Word’
First Reading Deuteronomy 30:10-14
God’s word is very close to us – in our mouth and heart – so that we can put it into practice.
Second Reading Colossians 1:15-20
Jesus is the image of God and the firstborn of all creation.
Gospel Luke 10:25-37
When Jesus was asked what the most important commandment is, he told the story of the Good Samaritan.
Thought by Fr Prem
It is not your charity, not your mercy the good Samaritan today that seeks. It is his share of life, justice. His portion of life, when the portion of flesh is demanded of him. When it is justice that the innocent people, vulnerable, helpless people ask for. The voiceless that ask for is to be heard. Not for your mercy, but simply what is due to them. Then it is the great presidents, prime ministers, even Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, priests, great Rabbis, Molaves, Hindu priests walk by, there is none! No they were not the by standers or walked past by. But the real bandits!
Except for people like Greta Thunberg, Malala Yousafzai, the journalists, the doctors without boarders …. your social status absolutely means nothing! Yes, they are the good Samaritans.
If Jesus walked today, he would have had a different Samaritan story, there is nothing so new to say or is said of a victim of the bandits, when real bandits are adorned, titled and given a social, religious recognition. No longer were they passing by, but the real bandits! could you believe it.
Why are you denying justice to someone pleads for justice, not mercy! and who are you?
Hymns suggestions for this Sunday
Here’s a link to a choice and selection of hymns click here
Some hymns from the Parish Hymn Book and YouTube links to learn the tune, for prayer and reflection
243 – Eternal Father strong to save click here
118 – All I once held dear click here, click here
186 – Brother, sister, let me serve you click here
214 – Come Lord Jesus come click here
362 – In bread we bring you, Lord click here
444 – Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour tune St Helen click here, tune Henry Smart click here
464 – Love is the only law
726 – Whatsoever you do click here
479 – My god accept my heart this day click here
730 – When I needed a neighbour click here
Children’s Liturgy Activity and Work Description
See the introduction by Clare Haley regarding our children’s liturgy click here
Our Children’s activity on Sunday, shared!
Creative Activity by Parishioners shared with us
Our Sunday Parish Mass on interactive Zoom streaming
Sharing the joy of this Sunday with all. Let us be inspired and be an inspiration to the others!
Readers (Lectors) click here (and scroll right down) to
have a look at the Readings for Next Few Sundays – download below or
have a look online for your practice and preparation.
Please be aware that you will be reading from the missalette left in church, not this print or format. Let me know in time please if you need the format that is given above, or you may come with your own print. I will be more than happy to print it for you.
Last Sunday: 5th / 6th July 2025
14th Sunday in OT Yr C
Retiring Collection – Supporting the Parish Debt recovery
Readings & Prayers for the Mass
Children’s Activity for this Week
A ‘Little Thought’ to ponder for this Sunday ~ Fr Prem
Taken from ‘The Living Word’
First Reading Isaiah 66:10-14 Isaiah presents a vision of Jerusalem as a loving mother, overflowing with tenderness and the source of every blessing. But God’s blessing is rooted in peace, not in conquest. God’s servants are instruments of peace, not agents of domination.
Second Reading Galatians 6:14-18 Paul the zealous Jew calls his pagan converts “the Israel of God”. Salvation does not come from membership of an exclusive elite but from the power of the cross, which makes of all who follow Jesus a new creation, by his grace.
Gospel Luke 10:1-12. 17-20 Jesus’ disciples rejoice to share in his healing power. He warns them not to pride themselves on miraculous powers but on sharing his life. He sends them out poor and defenceless so that they learn to rely on God alone.
Thought by Fr Prem
I think the short commentaries given above for the readings speaks for itself and gives the very crucks for the theme for this Sunday. Having celebrated the great solemnities, our profession of faith, we were privileged in this Jubilee Year to celebrate the very foundation of the Church with Ss Peter & Paul. As I reflected last Sunday, it looks like this day – I mean our times, is really testing the faith of the very church itself. If the very leaders of the church do not profess the faith, lost the faith of the church, surely then the church is simply a business enterprise, job making and wealth creating institution for their people giving a taste and a flavour of their own business. That is the challenge today. Well numbers will increase like in any other business too then, if that is what it all matters.
But quite not! This weekend the church is set on fire with a mission. To go out from their own to places where Jesus wanted to go, not necessarily those places wanted him there, possible dared not that he comes! We celebrate today the very missionary mandate entrusted to the church. Church then is not a comforting, comfortable home with our prodigy: family and friends surrounded, to our own liking, want and taste, filled with milk and honey. But the Church is and must be a migrant church, church on mission. Isn’t this true when we look at our own churches! Isn’t it a migrant church. Where there is no faith, it is the migrants – the church on mission that brings the faith, keeps the faith and sustain it.
Are we a Church then on mission and are we a people ready to welcome the migrant church!
How lovely this Sunday in our parish we celebrate our children receiving the sacraments and also the parish coming together especially welcoming all the children and families, anew to our parish and school.
We say you are warmly welcome! Open doors!
Some Hymn for our own prayer and reflection for last Sunday
Here’s a link to a choice and selection of hymns click here
Some hymns from the Parish Hymn Book and YouTube links to learn the tune, for prayer and reflection
562 – Our hearts were made for you lord click here
263 – Forth in the peace of Christ we go Duke street tune click here Quinn / SONG 34 click here
262 – For the healing of the nations click here (Henry Purcell) and click here (Tune sung at National Memorial Service on 14 December 2017 at St Paul’s Cathedral, to mark the 6 month anniversary of the Grenfell Tower Fire)
572 – Peace is flowing like a river click here
286 – God forgave my sin click here
573 – Peace is the gift click here
828 – O Lord, all the world click here
413 – Lay your hands gently upon us click here
274 – Give me joy in my heart click here
547 – O perfect love tune Strength and Stay click here, high wood click here, modern click here
Children’s Liturgy Activity and Work Description
See the introduction by Clare Haley regarding our children’s liturgy click here