MAUNDY THURSDAY OFFICE OF READINGS AND MORNING PRAYER
This will be broadcast on Radio Maria England at 7.30 am. Please click on this pdf link to follow the liturgy: Maundy Thursday Morning Mass of the Lord’s Supper is at 6 pm.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS WITH MUSIC – from our Dominican Sisters
The Stations of the Cross are a traditional devotion for Lent, especially for Holy Week, which we can do as a community or privately at home. Here’s a recording of Stations of the Cross recorded at the chapel at...
THE ANNUNCIATION: OUR GIFT TO GOD?
Fr Bob Eccles is surprised by how, at the Annunciation, God asks a gift of Our Lady – and reflects on the surprise to us that we too have gifts to give to God… Some words of encouragement as...
NATIONAL DAY OF REFLECTION ON THE PANDEMIC, Tuesday 23 March – ADORATION AT BLACKFRIARS 3-5 and 7-9 pm
This coming TUESDAY 23 March is National Day of Reflection on the Pandemic. Our bishops have encouraged us to make it a day of prayer in front of the Blessed Sacrament. Here at Blackfriars there will be Adoration in...
HOLY WEEK AND EASTER AT BLACKFRIARS
PUBLIC LITURGIES (scroll down for liturgies which we celebrate in private but are broadcast on Radio Maria England) PALM SUNDAY, 28 March 8.15 Mass (also broadcast on Radio Maria England) 9.15 Mass (Extraordinary Form) 11 am Mass with...
ST. JOSEPH, 19 March – his Year, and a new prayer to him
In his letter for this Year of St. Joseph, and very prophetically in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard,Pope Francis says, “The nobility of Joseph’s heart is such that what he learned from the law he made...
THE VACCINES, ARE THEY ALRIGHT?
Catholics everywhere are asking questions about whether it’s moral to have a Covid vaccine, as some of them have origins in tissues taken from an aborted child. Fr Bob Eccles helps us with this serious and difficult question, based...
TRUE FAITH OR MAKE-BELIEVE?
Noting how the devil’s temptations of Jesus resemble children’s make-believe games, Fr Bob Eccles invites us to accept the wonderful, transformative reality of God’s Easter love. On the first Sunday of Lent, the Church always has us listen to...
ASH WEDNESDAY AND LENTEN STATIONS OF THE CROSS
Ash Wednesday Mass is at 7.30 am, in the cloister (to allow extra space) and will also be broadcast on Radio Maria. For Covid safety, ashes will be sprinkled on top of your head (which is also the ancient...
FEAR AND LONGING: CHRIST THE OUTSIDER AND HEALER
In a time of fear and longing for touch, Fr Colin Carr reflects on Christ healing the leper (homily for the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)). We all have feelings about cleanliness: we spend a lot of...