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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...
Urgent Prayer Request from the Prior
Dear Friends, I hope you are keeping safe and well. I’m writing to let you know that our beloved brother David Sanders is very unwell at the moment. Many of...
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...
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...
Blackfriars Fundraising Reaches £1/4 million
A significant legacy, a grant from a local trust, and very generous individual giving have allowed Blackfriars to make good progress in the first three months of its fundraising campaign....