Visiting the Margaret Beaufort
Good conversation and a delicious Thai curry cooked by Rosina awaited us after the Thursday evening Mass at the Margaret Beaufort Institute on Grange Road. It was a chance to catch up with staff as well as meet new...
Dante and Aquinas
In last night’s lecture Prof. Kirkpatrick tackled a theme dear to the heart of his one-time teacher, Fr. Kenelm Foster OP – Dante’s understanding of Aquinas as a maker of careful distinctions. Close reading of passages from the Paradiso...
Why we need to understand Islam
Fr. Jean Jacques Pérennès, former Director of the Order’s Centre for Islamic Studies in Cairo, spoke yesterday to the community about the Centre’s mission, showing and commenting on a recent film about the Friars there. With a first-class library...
The Prophets from Abraham to the Christ
Fr Richard Ounsworth came through last week to give two talks on Sacred Scripture: on Old Testament prophecy, and its culmination in the preaching of Jesus Christ. The novices from Greenwich, Sisters Lynn and Lucia, together with their Novice...