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Blackfriars To Expand Into New Annexe Building
Pressure of space on the main Blackfriars site in Oxford city centre will be relieved from Autumn 2019 through the creation of new teaching, meeting and office space plus student...
Garden Party photos
In an otherwise dreary June, the Oxford term ended dry and warm just in time for the Blackfriars garden party. Pimms, strawberries and cream, and good company – what better...
Biblical Thomism Conference
The Aquinas Institute were pleased to host speakers for an event focusing on Biblical Thomism on Saturday 1 June. The event was made possible with the help of Prof Piotr...
Special Lecture at Blackfriars
The Aquinas Institute were pleased to welcome Prof Timothy Pawl to Blackfriars to speak on St Thomas Aquinas’ theology of the Incarnation. You can listen to the audio of the...
Booking opens for Alumni Reunion 2019
Former students at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, or those who studied in the Dominican Studium, are warmly invited to join us for our fourth annual alumni dinner. Spouses, relatives and friends...
Celebrating the Dedication of the Priory
Each year on 20 May, the Dominican community celebrates the anniversary of the consecration of the Priory Church. The community arrived back in 1921, seven hundred years after the first...
Former Cabinet Minister Gives Newman Lecture
On Wednesday 8th May, The Rt Hon Ruth Kelly delivered the 2019 Newman Lecture, ‘Creating change: reflections on government, education and faith’. This annual lecture is offered by the three...
Holy Week and the Sacred Paschal Triduum
The prior and community of Blackfriars, Oxford invite you to join us for the great days of Holy Week and the Sacred Paschal Triduum. The times of the Liturgy are...
Formation Meeting at Blackfriars
The prior and community hosted formators from across the English speaking world for their annual meeting to share experiences of formation and plan future collaboration. The Vocations Promoters, Masters of...
Lent at Blackfriars
Lent is the time of the Christian year when we seek to turn our lives back to God. For forty days we follow Jesus ‘into the desert’ and seek to...