Solemnity of the Birth of St John the Baptist | Fr Thomas Skeats explains the significance of the name given by God to St John.
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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
Name Calling
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Godzdogz
Blog of the Dominican Student Brothers at Blackfriars, Oxford
Jesus, St. Augustine and Politics
Monday, June 18, 2018
There is a distinction we can make between those in ‘public life’ such as politicians and celebrities and ‘the rest of us’ but this can be an unhelpful distinction. It can imply the Christian faith is part of one’s private life rather than one’s public life. Alternatively, we can think it is the duty of Christian politicians to fight our case whilst doing nothing in our personal day-to-day encounters. It implies one’s faith can be put aside for one’s politics. This cannot be so. Read more
Scott Hahn speaks at the Rosary Shrine
Friday, March 23, 2018
Renowned speaker and author, Dr Scott Hahn, delivered a powerful talk (now available online) on the importance of Mary in the Christian Faith. Visiting the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary for the first time together with his wife Kimberly, Dr Hahn spoke to a full church of over 600 people about his own experience as a former Protestant minister trying to come to terms with Catholic doctrine on Our Lady. Read more