St Mary, Oxford 215 Summit St Oxford, Iowa 52322

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Welcome to our home on the Internet. Here you will find the latest news and information about our parish. Please take a moment to visit our News column on the right hand side of the page for featured articles. Visitors are invited to sign up for our online mailing list for special news and announcements or sign up to receive the weekly bulletins. We hope you  enjoy your visit and encourage you to check back often for updates! If you or someone you know would like to receive communion and are not on the list, please let me know. Whenever you know of someone in the hospital, please let me know so I can make a visit. Please check the bulletin and this web site each week for the dates and times of weekday Masses or call the rectory at 828-4180.
God Bless, Fr. Dunn

Learning About Forgiveness and Vocations
Our church had its second youth ministry meeting of the new school year on Wednesday, November 12. We were very lucky to have two guest speakers, Father Thomas Doyle and Father Marty Goetz. During this meeting, they told us about how they have experienced God throughout their lives, and ...

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Don't Let Faith Get Lost in School Year
School time brings together a host of activities: sports, friends, after-school activities such as clubs, and especially homework. With so many activities going on in a young person’s life it is easy to lose track of other important activities that should be a no-brainer. In my experience over ...

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Oxford Area Parishioners Restore Houses for Poor
Earlier this month a group of eight youth and four adults returned to the hollows near the David, Ky., area of Appalachia to work on restoring housing for the poor.  Many in the group had worked in the recent floods that affected eastern Iowa. Some people asked why we were going all the way to ...

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US Senate: Cardinal McCarrick defends religious freedom of Muslims, Catholics

Testifying before a senate judiciary subcommittee hearing on “Protecting the Civil Rights of American Muslims,” Cardinal Theodore McCarrick defended the religious freedom of Muslims and Catholics.

Speaking on behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the ...

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Persecution of Church looming in Sudan?

The secretary general of the Sudanese bishops’ conference is expressing concern that the Church in the northern part of the nation will suffer persecution if the residents of southern Sudan opt for independence in a January 2011 referendum. In addition, “the lives of ...

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California Catholic Lobby Day

Each year California Catholics gather in Sacramento to speak with their elected officials about issues of concern to the Church. This effort is ...

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What Have You Done for Your Marriage Today?

That’s the question the Catholic Church asks in a series of TV and radio spots launched June 27 by the U.S. bishops’ Committees on Marriage and Family ...

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