Drawing on the ancient spiritual devotion of the Stations of the Cross, we invite you to participate in a journey of reflection and discovery in the city of Oxford.
Drawing on the ancient spiritual devotion of the Stations of the Cross, we invite you to participate in a journey of reflection and discovery in the city of Oxford.
The blue ceiling studded with stars is called a ‘celure’, from the Latin ‘caelum’, meaning ‘heaven’. Painted in 2012, this celure shows the constellation Pleiades and was inspired by this biblical text: ‘Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion?’ (Job 38.31).
Oliver Caroe, 2009
By kind permission of the Vicar and Churchwardens, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford.
Listen to a reflection by Canon Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford