The Novices joined parishioners from Our Lady of English Martyrs (OLEM) to witness to their faith. This was the first year at which the Catholic community has joined the winter fair, giving the faithful a chance to witness to the...
We rejoice as we pass the midway point of this Advent season. We rejoice in anticipation and as we prepare for the coming of Christ. The rose vestment is a lightening of the purple vestments of Advent, the Sunday...
The Novices were kindly invited to enjoy a Christmas dinner with retired parishioners from the Cambridge parishes. This was an opportunity for the Catholic community to get to know the seven brothers; and a wonderful opportunity for the Novices to...
On the 8th of December we celebrated the Immaculate Conception of our Blessed Mother, Our great intercessor, Loving mother of the Church. As is customary in the Priory we celebrated this solemnity with a great feast, and truly celebrated...
The novices attended a session with the Blackfriars Study group on the 16th of November. The group was discussing Ralph Martin’s article entitled: The Post-Christendom Sacramental Crisis: The Wisdom of Thomas Aquinas. The paper was introduced by Professor John...
Last month, Mariapaola Sorrentino, one of the Lay Dominicans in Cambridge, volunteered to provide first aid training for the Novices, training them how to respond to incidents in a safe and helpful way. The two-hour tutorial was a practical...
Fr Euan Marley OP has just recently been assigned to the Cambridge priory. He joins us from Scotland, which he is native to and where he was until recently been living. The whole community is very grateful to welcome this new Friar...
Every week, the novices with their master and assistant master undertake some community work. This ranges from working in the garden, cleaning the kitchen and tidying the stores to proofreading liturgical books and inputting data on the computer. The rationale...
A familiar site at Blackfriars as the Novices serve the Conventual Mass: The Dominican life is centred on Prayer nourished by the daily mass. Please keep the Novices in your Prayers
The novices were very blest to join Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster and Fr. Martin Ganeri OP, Prior Provincial of the English Province at the Solemn Mass to celebrate the inauguration of the Shrine of Our Lady of the...