Two Dominicans, Fr Timothy Radcliffe and Br Toby Lees, are among the religious who talk about the joy of consecrated life in this short video. A powerful and insightful testimony to the lives of monks, friars, enclosed nuns, and apostolic sisters. Enjoy!
Yesterday (Wednesday) saw us make our first noviciate visit to St Bede’s Inter-Church School in Cambridge – for a short morning assembly on the theme of Hope as a Christian virtue. Many thanks to Mr Denis Johnson, Head of...
After two months with us, Michael has discerned that his vocation lies elsewhere, and has left the noviciate. We shall miss him, but wish him well, and keep him in our prayers as he ponders his next move. We look forward...
Each year, on All Souls, the brethren visit the three Cambridge cemeteries which contain the bodies of friars buried from Blackfriars, Cambridge, and are joined at the third by the Dominican sisters as well as Lay Dominicans. We light a...
Our congratulations to Sr Mary Magdalene! The noviciate went north on Saturday to the Dominican Sisters’ convent at Stone, for the clothing of Gabriella Debreczeni, the former Cambridge postulant, who was clothed in the religious habit as Sr Mary...
A big thank you to Rev Alan McMahon, to his Chaplaincy team, and to his Rosary Group who welcomed us on Thursday afternoon at HMP Highpoint. Together with Sr Angela Mary OP, Novice Mistress for the Stone congregation, and Gabriella, who will be clothed...
The noviciate has had an early outing… Brs Stefan and Michael spent Thursday September 25th at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, where Fr Benedict is the new priest chaplain. After midday Mass in the chapel, there was cake in the...
Two brothers, Joseph Bailham and Christopher Pierce (shown here with their former Novice Master), made their simple profession in the English Province this Sunday, on the Feast of the Holy Cross, at Blackfriars, Cambridge. In his homily the Provincial, Fr...
On Saturday September 13th, Michael Watkins and Stefan Mangnus were clothed with the Dominican habit in a private ceremony at Blackfriars, Cambridge, supported by fellow members of the Dominican Family. Michael, who graduated this summer from St Andrews with a...
From the Spring sunshine of Student Cross to Salamanca in June and on to the heatwave that rolled in from the Cumbrian coast to the shores of Yorkshire…