ST EDMUND’S COLLEGE
CAMBRIDGE
Chapel Centenary Year 1916–2016
The Resurrection of Christ by Piero della Francesca (1415-92),
Museo Civico, San Sepolcro, Italy
Study as if you were to live forever;
live as if you were to die tomorrow.
St Edmund of Abingdon (1175–1240), the College’s Patron
Chapel Card
Easter Term 2016
Mass Times
Sunday Mass is celebrated throughout the year at 10.30am, followed by tea and coffee in the Combination Room.
Weekday Mass is on Monday, Wednesday & Friday at 8.30am in Full Term.
Holyday Masses are as announced.
The Sacrament of Reconciliation is available at any time or by appointment.
Sunday Preachers
17 April Fourth Sunday of Easter: The Dean
24 April Fifth Sunday of Easter: The Dean
1 May Sixth Sunday of Easter: The Dean
8 May The Ascension of the Lord: The Reverend Dr Stephen Wang
15 May Pentecost Sunday: The Reverend Dr Aidan Nichols OP
22 May Trinity Sunday: The Dean
29 May Corpus Christi: The Dean
5 June Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Fr Philip Moller SJ
12 June End of Year Mass (Scarlet & Fellows’ Procession): The Dean
19 June Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Dean’s Assistant
· The Reverend Dr Stephen Wang, is the Senior University Chaplain of the Archdiocese of Westminster, working from the Newman Chaplaincy Centre, London. He was formerly Dean of Studies at Allen Hall, London. Stephen is the author of Aquinas and Sartre: Freedom, Personal Identity and the Possibility of Happiness (Catholic University of America) and, most recently, The Christian Faith: A Mini-Catechism for Adults. He runs a blog, Bridges and Tangents: Looking across the Landscape of Contemporary Culture.
· The Reverend Dr Aidan Nichols OP is the Prior of Blackfriars, next door to the College, and a prolific author. His forthcoming book is All Great Art is Praise: Art and Religion in John Ruskin.
· Fr Philip Moller an Australian Jesuit, a member of St John's College, reading for a PhD in philosophical theology. He lives and works at Cambridge's Catholic Chaplaincy, Fisher House, as an Assistant chaplain.
Anglican Eucharist
Wednesday 11 May at 12.00 noon
Celebrant: The Reverend Dr Rodney Holder, Bye-Fellow.
ALL WELCOME
The Golden Lyre of Ur
A Performance of Ancient Near Eastern
Music & Poetry
Poems in English and Babylonian, sung and recited by Stef Conner & Jennifer Sturdy, accompanied by Andy Lowings and Mark Harmer on a replica of the oldest extant stringed instrument found in the
Royal Tombs of Ur (Iraq) in 1929.
Monday 25 April at 8.00pm
FREE ENTRANCE
REGULAR EVENTS
Sung Latin Compline (Monastic Night Prayer)
Every Sunday in Full Term at 9.00pm in the Chapel
Contact: Jeffrey Berland ()
ALL WELCOME
Meditation, Discussion, Adoration & Said Compline
Scriptural meditation and informal discussion, followed by Compline
8.00pm on Wednesdays in Full Term
For further information, contact Matteo Barbone ()
ALL WELCOME
Extraordinary Form (Tridentine) Low Mass
at 6.15pm on selected Mondays of Full Term
(18 April & 2, 9, 16, May).
ALL WELCOME
St Edmund’s Chapel Choir
New members are always welcome and should contact the Director of Chapel Music & Organist, Louisa Denby ().
Rehearsals are on Tuesdays 7–8.30pm
and at 9.30am before Sunday Mass.
St Edmund’s College
St Edmund’s College is unique among all the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge in having, by Statute, a Catholic Chapel and a Catholic priest as Dean. The College was founded in 1896 as a Catholic house of residence, primarily for priests reading for degrees in the University. It became an Approved Foundation in 1975, changed its name from St Edmund’s House to St Edmund’s College in 1986, achieved full collegiate status in 1996 and received its Royal Charter in 1998. The chapel is a Grade II listed building, designed by Father Benedict Williamson CSSP. Its foundation stone was laid in 1915 by Cardinal Bourne, the then Archbishop of Westminster, and opened in 1916 by Francis Keating, the then Bishop of Northampton. The Chapel’s centenary is being celebrated during the current academical year from 13 November 2015 to 24 September 2016.
The Chapel
The College Chapel is open at all times. It is accessed through the main door during the day in Full Term and at all other times from within the College at the end of the main corridor in the Norfolk Building. All members and visitors to the College are welcome to attend liturgical and other events taking place in the Chapel. The Dean, Father Alban McCoy, a Catholic priest and Franciscan Friar, is available to all members of the College. Please feel free to call at his office, which is next to the chapel, or make contact by e-mail ( & ) or telephone (3)36123 or 07887850978). The Dean’s Assistant is the Reverend Professor Allen Brent ().
Chapel Collections
Chapel collections contribute to the running costs of the Chapel. The chapel community also supports various charities, the principal ones being The Premananda Orphanage Centre in Ongole, Andhra Pradesh, which provides a home for sixty homeless children (collection 8 May) and Street Invest Africa (collection 5 June), which trains professional workers to serve as trustworthy adults in the lives of street children, securing for them a viable future.
Readers, Servers & Eucharistic Ministers
If you would like to read at Mass, please contact John Gannon (). If you would like to serve Mass or be instituted as an Extraordinary Minister of the Holy Eucharist, please contact the Dean.
Dean: Fr Alban McCoy OFM Conv BA (Kent) MLitt (Oxon)
Dean’s Assistant: The Reverend Professor Allen Brent DD
Director of Chapel Music & Organist: Louisa Denby MA MMus PGDip LRSM CertRCO