Novices visit Ely Cathedral
The days after Christmas in the noviciate are a time of holiday. The novices for the first time since the noviciate has started can leave for a few days to visit family or friends. The two Dutch novices Michael...
End of Term for Novices
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for the novices as they ended their first term of studies. Classes have now finished, but preparations for Christmas have begun in earnest with a trip to the local food bank to...
Christmas at Blackfriars
Christmas Eve: 11.15 p.m. Vigil, followed by the Mass of Christmas Night Christmas Day: Dawn Mass: 8.15 a.m. Mass in the Antiquus Ordo (Dominican Use): 9.15 a.m. Day Mass: 11 a.m. Solemn Vespers: 6 p.m. NB: NO EVENING MASS...
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...
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...