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...
Dante Concert for the Jean Grove Trust | BLACKFRIARS ETHIOPIA PROJECT
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...
Blackfriars Advent Talks
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...
Visit to the Archives
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...
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...
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....
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...
Novitiate of 2015/2016
The six new novices clothed this evening flank their novicemaster, and novices representing the previous two years.
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...