Newsletter
From the Director - The Revd Dr Liz
Carmichael
December
2011
Dear Friends of St Theosevia’s,
Thank you for supporting last term’s programme. The day on
the Carmelites was intriguing and very well attended. A keen
but smaller group arrived to join Nicholas Vesey in wrestling
with how to connect the unchurched with the traditions of
Christian spirituality — a question that must remain live and
important for all of us who know the spiritual resources that
exist and yet are often missed.
This term we have two study days that offer a feast of visual
art, and an evening of music and poetry. On 28 January we
welcome
Roger Rosewell who lives in the hamlet of
Yelford, west of Oxford, which boasts one of the smallest
parish churches in England. Roger Rosewell is an expert on
western mediaeval church art, the News & Features Editor
of Vidimus, the on-line magazine about medieval stained glass
published monthly by the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA).
He is the author of the award-winning Medieval Wall Paintings
in English and Welsh Churches (2008 & 2011) and two
forthcoming books: Painting with Light: a History of Stained
Glass in England, and Life in a Medieval Monastery (2012). He
will speak on the symbolism and function of stained glass in
mediaeval churches. This day is shared with
Fr John Baggley, parish priest of the RC parish
of Corpus Christi in Headington, well-known author on icons
and frequent contributor to Study Days, who will speak on
Orthodox iconography.
On the second Study Day, Saturday 25 February,
Dr Nicholas Gendle will explore the Byzantine
mosaics of Sicily. Twelfth century Sicily saw a unique fusion
of Norman, Byzantine and Arab cultural influences, to which
its art and architecture, and not least its magnificent
church mosaics, bear witness.
In between these two days we welcome you on Mon. 30 Jan. to a
bring and share evening of poetry and music with
Metropolitan Kallistos, on ‘The Passage of Time’.
LIZ CARMICHAEL
Tel. (01865) 277351
liz.carmichael@sjc.ox.ac.uk
- Free tea and coffee are available at Study Days, from 10 am and at lunch-time. Lunch break is about one hour 1-2pm. Bring packed lunch, or you can buy food nearby in North Parade.
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