Edmund Zengeni will be Admitted to the Lay Fraternity of Cambridge during the 11.00 Mass at Blackfriars next Sunday 4th June, Trinity Sunday. The Mass Celebrant will be Father Colin Carr OP, Religious Assistant and chaplain to the Cambridge Fraternity. Please keep Edmund in your prayers,
Celebrating the last Marian procession at the Dominican convent in Stone. We thank the sisters for all their support and prayers over the years, not forgetting their wonderful Aquinas study weekends! Please keep them in your prayers.
On 28 April 2023, the Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation has appointed a new Chair. Astrid Söderbergh Widding, President of Stockholm University, is assuming the position. Astrid Söderbergh Widding is Professor of Cinema Studies and President of Stockholm University. Since 1985, she has been a member of the Dominican Lay Fraternity in Stockholm
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Rev. Nick Baggio, who died in January, aged 71. Nick was a Lay Dominican, originally in Manchester Fraternity (which became part of the North West Fraternal Group). He was also a Permanent Deacon for the Diocese of Leeds. Many people will remember Nick’s work in organising the
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Fr Timothy Radcliffe, OP, Fr Richard Finn, OP, and other Dominican Friars, Sisters and Laity Friday 23 June & Saturday 24 June, 2023, Assembly Hall, New College, Edinburgh For full details of the programme and to book, visit https://scotland.op.org/preachersofgrace/ Assembly Hall, New College, Mound Place, EH1 2LX | St Columba’s by the Castle, 14 Johnston
Lay Dominicans Crawley Fraternal Group On Saturday 29th April 2023, on the Feast Day of St Catherine of Siena, a Mass celebrating the inauguration of the Crawley Lay Dominican Fraternity, will be held at St. Theodore’s Church, Gossops Green, Crawley RH11 8BJ at 6.30pm at which the celebrant will be Bishop Richard Moth, the Bishop
As we celebrate the Annunciation of the Lord, Karol Grobicki (North West), reflects on two images of Mary and asks the question, how can our hearts and minds be raised to a contemplation of God?
This year’s seminar took place from 17-19 March, at Hinsley Hall in Leeds. The seminar was attended by many branches of the Dominican family – friars, sisters, Lay Dominicans, the Priestly Fraternity, the Secular Institute and Associates. The theme was Being Prophetic: Reading the Signs of the Times and Being a Sign for the Time.
Paul Williams (Bristol) writes: “Throughout most of 2022 under a director from the Jesuit retreat house at St Beuno’s in Wales I meditated and prayed my way through the complete Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola. This is the verbatim entry for the day in which I meditated on the raising of Lazarus, which is
