We are delighted to welcome Catherine Pickstock, Norris Hulse Professor of Divinity, to Blackfriars this year to give our annual Aquinas lecture. The lecture Truth as Conformation: Forgotten Theorists of Verity will take place on Tuesday, 28 January at...
The Dominicans are hosting a stunning photographic exhibition from 25-27 October featuring a talk given by Zoltán Körösvölgyi ‘On Photography and the Limits of Perception and Memory on Friday 25 October, 19:30 and displays by young artists. Blackfriars Priory,...
Two novices for the friars began with us here at Blackfriars and were clothed at the end of September by the Provincial, Fr Martin Ganeri OP. But, this year’s class is greatly enriched by a collaboration with our sisters...
On 31 May, the noviciate visited Arundel in Sussex for the Cathedral’s annual Corpus Christi mass and procession. This century-old tradition sees the Blessed Sacrament carried in procession from the Cathedral, across a carpet of flowers and along the...
The novices are hard at work, they have been training every Sunday afternoon for the last few weeks at Trinity Hall playing fields, which is near to Blackfriars, off Storey’s Way. These particular pictures were taken on Sunday, 6...
Holy Thursday. 7:30 Office of Readings and Lauds. 18:00 Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper Watching at the altar of repose: 19:30 to Midnight Good Friday 8:00 Tenebrae 15:00 Celebration of Our Lord’s Passion. 21:00 Compline. Holy...
The priory was pleased on 28th February to welcome Fr Bruno Cadoré, the Master of the Order of Preachers and 86th successor of St. Dominic. This was Fr Cadoré’s second visit to Cambridge in his term as Master, which...
Aquinas 2018 Cambridge Lecture delivered by Dr Andrew Meszaros and summarised by Br Cornelis Is life on earth best understood as a valley of tears or as a foretaste of the kingdom of God? Dr Andrew Meszaros addressed this...
Richard Steenvoorde OP was ordained to the diaconate at Blackfriars, Oxford, on 21st January 2018, the Dutch Province’s first ordination in a couple of decades. Br Stefan, a novice of the Dutch Province currently living in Cambridge, reports on...
Please join us in welcoming our new novices: Br Cornelius Br Marc Br Ulises Br Raphael Br Bede Br Stefan Pictured above with the Provincials of England and the Netherlands and the Master of Novices. Last year’s class, Br...