Lenten devotions
You are warmly invited to join the friars for devotions during Lent. On the Mondays of Lent there will be recitation of a decade of the rosary as usual at 18.15, Vespers at 18.30 will include a short Lenten...
Special lecture
Blackfriars welcomed last night Prof. Eduardo Echeverria from Sacred Heart School of Theology, Detroit, to speak on ‘The Theological Mind of Pope Francis’. Prof. Echeverria, recent author of Pope Francis: The Legacy of Vatican II, stressed the formative and...
Starting the Jubilee!
Today is the Feast of All Saints of the Order of Preachers, and looks forward to our Jubilee year of 2016 – celebrating 800 years of Dominican preaching, prayer, and fraternity. You can visit the Jubilee pages on our...
Sharing the life
As part of the noviciate year, we have been visiting St Bede’s Inter-Church school in Cambridge, talking to students about the Order, its purpose and how we live. Our thank you to Mr Dennis Johnson and his colleagues in...
Mass & more at Fisher House
Fr Philip SJ and Sr Ann Catherine OP made the novices welcome when they arrived for Mass and lunch with the students, followed by a discussion over coffee about their work as chaplains. A happy occasion and a valuable...
Term has started!
The first of our regular weekly classes – this one on Dominican History and Spirituality. Br Albert led us in a look at the twelfth century background, the social, economic, intellectual, and religious world into which St Dominic was...
The Old Howardians Reunion
The autumn sun shone down on us at Laxton Hall, near Oundle, where the noviciate joined the Old Boys of Blackfriars School for Sunday Mass at their biennial reunion. The hymns included that composed by Old Howardian Leon Paul....
A successful & enjoyable gig!
The Blackfriars Ethiopia Trust raised around five hundred pounds at the Devonshire Arms recently with a gig organised by George Bacon and other supporters. The money will fund the education of schoolchildren in schools supported by the Trust. A...
Blackfriars welcomes Bishop Alan Hopes
The Dominican friars at Cambridge were very pleased to welcome their diocesan bishop, The Rt Rev Alan Hopes, to Blackfriars this Sunday. Bishop Alan presided at the 11am Conventual Mass, met with members of the congregation over coffee afterwards...
Association of Blind Catholics retreat
Fr Benedict returned recently from acting as chaplain at the annual retreat for the Association of Blind Catholics (ABC). As has been the case for several years now, this took place in the Emmaus Centre in West Wickham in...