On Tuesday 2 February the novices, with Fr Bruno, visited Norwich for a special Mass for the consecrated religious of the diocese. In his homily, Bishop Alan marked the end of the Year for Consecrated Life by encouraging everyone...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...