A lay-led group meets once a term at Blackfriars Cambridge. Its purpose is to help deepen our understanding of the Catholic Faith through the study of particular challenges to that faith. At each meeting a member of the group...
Last night saw the launch on an online exhibition, ‘A Pipeline from Heaven: 800 Years of Dominican Books’. The exhibition, one of several projects marking the Order’s 800th anniversary of foundation, is the result of a fruitful collaboration between Cambridge academics...
The Jean Grove Trust, the Blackfriars Ethiopia Project, is delighted to announce a forthcoming benefit concert. On Sunday 24 January, Clive James and Patrick Hemmerlé will join forces to present an evening of readings and music. Patrick’s programme, the Mozart...
The days after Christmas in the noviciate are a time of holiday. The novices for the first time since the noviciate has started can leave for a few days to visit family or friends. The two Dutch novices Michael...
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the novices as they ended their first term of studies. Classes have now finished, but preparations for Christmas have begun in earnest with a trip to the local food bank to...
Christmas Eve: 11.15 p.m. Vigil, followed by the Mass of Christmas Night Christmas Day: Dawn Mass: 8.15 a.m. Mass in the Antiquus Ordo (Dominican Use): 9.15 a.m. Day Mass: 11 a.m. Solemn Vespers: 6 p.m. NB: NO EVENING MASS...
Join us at Blackfriars for four talks on the Blessed Virgin Mary to be held at 7.30pm on the Sundays of Advent. Beginning Sunday November 29th: ‘The Annunciation: ‘Behold the handmaiden of the Lord‘ The title of the other...
Novices of the English Province, Wilfrid, David and Albert, travelled to Douai Abbey in Berkshire last Wednesday to look through the provinces archive, housed in the abbey library and cared for by a professional archivist. The visit aimed at...
Going from the rich heritage of the priory of Salamanca, to the humble origins of the Order is a long road in both the literal and historical sense. One cannot but marvel at the fact that a young man...
What a glorious day! And the sunshine was matched by the warmth of welcome we received from the people of the parish! We were celebrating Pentecost at Our Lady of Loreto and St Winefride’s, as part of St. Martin’s...