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Vice-Regent Fr Bruno Clifton launches new book
Blackfriars’ Vice-Regent, Rev Dr Bruno Clifton OP is launching his new work on the Book of Judges on 17 May, in a hybrid in-person and online event. This recently published...
Sir James MacMillan to give Newman Lecture 2022
Music & Some Wider Implications: a Catholic composer’s perspective. Is there a moral dimension to the act of composition? And does the work of a composer ever impact on the...
Holy Week & Easter Service Times 2022
Join us as we celebrate the holiest week of the Church’s year. Liturgies marked with * will be livestreamed. PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD Vigil Mass 6pm...
2021 Appeal – Target achieved!
We are delighted to announce that our goal of £31,250 has been reached, doubled by our benefactor’s matched funding to £62,500! On behalf of the scholars who will benefit from...
A Visit to the Top of the Tower
Richard Brown, the Development Director, reports on the progress of the current works on the priory. Thanks to an invitation from the Prior, today I made a fascinating visit to...
Jubilee Appeal: Support Our Scholars!
Blackfriars Hall attracts many outstanding students who want to pursue studies here – studies that can unlock their potential to do good in the world! Yet there are many who...
November Requiem Masses
November – Month of the Holy Souls Each November, the Church asks us to pray for the dead, not just those we have know, but all of the departed, and...
Revised Church Opening Times
As we move further out of lockdown, the community are gradually opening the priory church for public worship. Since we moved out of lockdown earlier in the summer, the community...
New Blackfriars – Special Jubilee Issue
To mark the 800th anniversary of the arrival of Dominican friars in England, the September 2021 issue of New Blackfriars will be a special one dealing with various aspects of...
Blackfriars’ 800th Birthday
On 15th August, we will be celebrating exactly 800 years since the foundation of the first Oxford priory in 1221, and 100 years since the foundation of the current priory!...