NEWS FROM BLACKFRIARS
The Annual Jean Grove fayre (we need your help!), Vocations Hotspot webinar with the Sisters, Fr Euan’s final talk on the Creed – and Fr Nicholas, our new prior. The annual Jean Grove fayre will take place here at...
Vocations Hotspot for Women
Wondering if God is calling you to religious life? A Zoom meeting with our Dominican Sisters for women enquirers 18-45 on Sunday 30 October, 4 pm. Contact Sr Rose to register: roserolling.opAToutlook.com
Anger: The Fire Within
The Holy Preaching is back on Wednesday 19th October at 7.30pm at St Catherine’s Convent, 155 Huntingdon Road. The topic will be Anger: The Fire Within. All welcome!
Reading the Bible: a homily for St. Jerome’s Day
Fr Bob Eccles first encountered the Bible when he was 7 or 8, and has been hooked ever since… On the memorial of St. Jerome, great translator and interpreter of Sacred Scripture, Fr Bob tells us his own story...
ST BERNADETTE COMES TO CAMBRIDGE – 15-16 October
St Bernadette is coming to Cambridge! Her relics will be at Our Lady and the English Martyrs from Saturday 15 to Sunday 16 October. Register here – DO IT SOON if you want to go, because places are filling...
HOLY PREACHING: SADNESS, THE LITTLE FOX IN THE VINEYARD
The Holy Preaching is coming back at our Sisters’ convent, 155 Huntingdon Rd, and will continue exploring the theme of the Eight Evil Thoughts. The key difference is that this term, it will be the third Wednesday of the...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II RIP – REQUIEM MASS SUNDAY 11 AM
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has died, peacefully, at the great age of 96, after 70 years of constant and faithful service. She will be remembered by British Catholics as a devout Christian and a good friend to the...
Novice Dominicans: brothers and sisters to all
Fr Bob Eccles, a Dominican novice a mere sixty years ago, reflects in his sermon for the 23rd Sunday of the Year on the vocation of Dominicans to be brothers and sisters to all. A friend was sitting over...
Meeting God in everyone
Fr Robert Verrill suggests that Jesus’ command to Christians to be “watchful” offers Christians a loving way to respond to “Woke” In today’s Gospel (Matthew 24:42-51, Thursday 21st Week in Ordinary Time), Jesus tells His disciples to watch. But...
BLACKFRIARS IN AUGUST
Sunday and weekday Masses and other services at all the usual times except NO EXPOSITION AND BENEDICTION ON THE FIRST FRIDAY OF AUGUST (5 August). A prayer for rain: https://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=1630