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Fr Simon Gaine, OP Named to New Pinckaers Chair
Fr Simon Francis Gaine, O.P., former Regent of Blackfriars, has been appointed to the new Pinckaers Chair in Theological Anthropology and Ethics, at the Angelicum beginning in the academic year...
Former Regent gives Aquinas Lecture
Fr Simon Gaine, OP, the former Regent of Blackfriars gave the annual Thomistic Circles Aquinas Lecture in Washington, D.C. on 30 January. He spoke on questions about human origins and...
Candlemas Drinks
The prior and community welcomed members of the congregation for drinks on the Vigil of Candlemas. It was an opportunity for people to find out more about the community and...
Christmas at Blackfriars – Service Times
Summary of Christmas Liturgies Christmas Eve 4pm – Crib Service 6pm – First Vespers of Christmas 11.30pm – Midnight Mass Christmas Day 8am – Mass (No Lauds.) 9.30am – Family...
Book Launch
On Wednesday the Blackfriars community joined together to celebrate the publication of Fr Timothy Radcliffe’s new book Alive in God. A Christian Imagination. You can find out more from the report...
New Building: First students move in
Our builders and staff managed just in time to complete and equip the new apartment at the top of Blackfriars’ new annexe building. The first students have now moved in....
Ordinations of Toby Lees and Luke Doherty
Our brother Archbishop Malcolm McMahon OP (Liverpool) conducted the ordinations of Brs Toby and Luke on Saturday 7 September 2019 at St Dominic’s Priory in north London (the Rosary Shrine)....
DYM Summer School 2019
Fr Nicholas Crowe OP once again led the Dominican Youth Movement Aquinas Study Week, generously supported by the Aquinas Institute (Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University) at Buckfast Abbey in Devon. He reports: “Our...
Congratulations to Br Albert, solemnly professed today
Br Albert Robertson OP made his solemn vows today in the hands of Fr Martin Ganeri OP, Prior Provincial, at Blackfriars, Oxford. Please remember Br Albert and all the friars...
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...