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Torch: Inspiring preaching each week from the Dominican Friars

"Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the scriptures?"

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The Holy Rosary

The Rosary is a devotion loved by the universal Church.

Tradition says Our Lady revealed it to St Dominic. This devotion was introduced by the Dominicans and is promoted by them, including through our Rosary Shrine in London.

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Explore the world from the Dominican perspective

Our student brothers, training for the priesthood, offer reflections on the doctrines and devotions of the Catholic Church.

Godzdogz: the Dominican student brothers' blog
History of the Dominicans

For over 800 years, Dominicans have been "champions of the Faith and true lights of the world". Our saints and blesseds include Catherine of Siena, Martin de Porres, Thomas Aquinas, Fra Angelico, Pius V and Pier Giorgio Frassati.

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The order of preachers

Welcome! The Dominican Friars are a religious order of priests and brothers in the Catholic Church. For 800 years, since 1216, we have been called to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the salvation of souls.

This is the website for an area of our international Order called the Province of England. This administrative area currently includes England, Wales and Scotland, plus our mission in Grenada, WI.

As we specialise in preaching, we have an online apostolate that offers weekly homilies by our friars which can be accessed through this site: Torch.

Torch

Weekly Homilies from Friars of the Province of England

Jesus's Solidarity

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) | Fr John O'Connor reflects on Christ's solidarity with us, not only in great moments of human suffering but even in the small daily challenges that can diminish and embitter us. Read more

Godzdogz

Blog of the Dominican Student Brothers at Blackfriars, Oxford

The God Who Speaks: In Victory and Defeat

Thursday, January 16, 2020

By Br Pablo Rodríguez Jordá, O.P. | Today’s Mass readings from 1 Samuel speak of the defeat of the Israelites at the hands of the Philistines. How could such a catastrophe be reconciled with God’s provident care over his people? Br Pablo answers this question in the first post of our series on the Year of the Word of God. Read more

A Community of Thomists

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Br Albert Robertson OP writes about the collaboration between the Washington DC-based 'Thomistic Institute' and the brothers in Blackfriars and the Aquinas Institute in Oxford, and its potency for creating communion between scholars, students, and seekers who are interested in the riches of the Catholic intellectual tradition. Read more