Latest News
For regular updates, follow us on Facebook or sign up for Priory Email News or Alumni Email News.
Happy Easter!
Dear Friends, Christ is risen! How welcome is this shout of good news against the backdrop of these extraordinary times and events we are living. It is welcome, and it...
The Dominicans magazine – Easter edition
Read the e-edition of our latest magazine! Owing to the current situation, we are distributing the Easter 2020 edition of our magazine electronically rather than as printed copies in our churches....
Fr David Sanders, OP, RIP
Of your charity, please pray for the soul of our brother, David Sanders, who departed this life on Monday 30 March in the eighty-first year of his age, the fifty-third...
Online Streaming of Mass
The Sunday Mass at Blackfriars will be live-streamed at 9.30 am from Sunday 29 March onwards until further notice. Weekday Masses will be broadcast at 7.30 am (Monday to Friday)...
Coronavirus: All Public Worship Suspended
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has announced today, 18 March 2020, that all public liturgies (including Mass) will cease from Friday evening, 20th March 2020 . The...
Photo Competition – all invited to take part
Blackfriars now has a shiny new annexe building, but lots of blank walls, so we are planning to fill some of the common areas with photos showing the life of...
Coronavirus Precautions
For Members of our Congregation On 9 March the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales implemented stage 2 of its advice for parishes on managing Coronavirus. Although Blackfriars is not...
Alumni Profile – Alex Norman (2005-2009)
Following the recent launch of his new biography of the Dalai Lama at Blackfriars, we caught up with alumnus Alexander Norman and asked him about his fascinating life and his...
Profession of Br Gabriel Theis, OP
At the Conventual Mass on the Second Sunday of Lent, Fr Robert Gay, OP, prior of our community, received the renewal of Simple Profession of Br Gabriel Theis, OP. Br...
Aquinas Colloquium
On Saturday the Aquinas Institute hosted its annual Aquinas Colloquium, this year entitled From Aristotle & Aquinas to Evolution, Quantum Mechanics and Neuroscience. Participants from a range of backgrounds came...