'...let us look more closely at that man crucified between earth and heaven. Let us contemplate him more intently, and we will realize that the cross is not the banner of the victory of death, sin and evil, but rather the luminous sign of love, of God’s immense love, of something that we could never...
Join the Dominican community for the Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. This liturgy will be live-streamed through the Godzdogz Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Godzdogz
This year, Holy Week and Easter will be like none that any of us has ever celebrated, and many will not be able to attend the Rites of Holy Week or the Sacred Paschal Triduum. The Archbishop of Birmingham has given permission for us to celebrate the Holy Week Rites despite our not being a...
Join the Dominican community for the Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. This liturgy will be live-streamed through the Godzdogz Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Godzdogz
Can science explain everything? Many people think so. Science, and the technologies it has spawned, has delivered so much to the world: clean water; more food; better healthcare; longer life. And we live in a time of rapid scientific progress that holds enormous promise for many of the problems we face as humankind. So much...
Many enthusiasts of theistic evolution willingly accept Aquinas’s distinction between primary and secondary causes, to describe theologically “the mechanics” of evolutionary transformation. They claim that God invites and enables contingent entities to participate in his divine act of creating new natural kinds. However, Aquinas clearly states “it is impossible for any creature to create, either...
Come and find out more about Blackfriars On Saturday 1 February you are warmly invited to drinks in the priory after the 6.15pm Saturday Vigil Mass. The prior will give a short talk entitled Finding Hope in an Uncertain World. This will be an opportunity to meet the community, tour the priory and the new academic...