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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?"

Find sermons for this week and the whole liturgical year.

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Catholic preaching
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.

Discover more about the Rosary
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

Prayers and Prayerfulness

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time (C) | Fr John Farrell reflects on the prayefulness that places us and our prayers within God's providence. Read more

Godzdogz

Blog of the Dominican Student Brothers at Blackfriars, Oxford

Newman and the New Evangelisation: a lecture by Bishop Robert Barron

Friday, October 18, 2019

By Br John Bernard Church | Bishop Robert Barron, auxiliary Bishop in Los Angeles and founder of Word on Fire, spoke in Newman’s old parish, the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, on 16th October, a few days after Newman's canonisation. Taking as his focus The Grammar of Assent, Bishop Barron presented Newman’s understanding of the conscience and the illative sense as vital to the work of evangelisation today. Read more

Rossini Stabat Mater – a Holy Cross celebration to remember

Monday, October 21, 2019

Rossini Stabat Mater – a Holy Cross celebration to remember The Dominican priory church in Leicester was filled on Saturday 12th October 2019 for a concert celebrating 200 years since the first Holy Cross church was founded on this site. Read more