Feasts

Readings: 2 Samuel 7:4-5,12-14,16; Psalm 88:2-5,27,29; Romans 4:13,16-18,22; Matthew 1:16,18-21,24 or Luke 2:41-51 Next Tuesday we will be celebrating the Annunciation

Readings: Isaiah 48:17-19; Psalm 1:1-4,6; Matthew 11:16-19 You just can’t please some people. One can sense Our Lord’s frustration in today’s

Today we celebrate the feast of All Saints, the day we remember our brothers and sisters, known and unknown, who

The Solemnity of SS Peter and Paul is both unusual, insofar as it celebrates two great saints on a single

Today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. Officially part of the liturgical calendar since 1856,

Last Sunday, the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ in England, saw Oxford's annual Corpus Christi procession, which

1 Peter 5:1-4; Ps 23; Mt 16:13-19. Today’s feast is very important despite its name perhaps suggesting it is merely about

I could not let today pass without saying a quick word about St. Thomas Aquinas, my intellectual hero and generally

The Feast of the Holy Family is on the Sunday between Christmas and the Feast of Holy Mary, Mother of

On the 4th October, the feast of St Francis, six of the Dominican friars from Blackfriars set out across Oxford

We Dominicans have not always been very good at promoting devotion to Our Holy Father St Dominic: that’s why our

Terror is truly a natural, human response to the Transfiguration. Peter, James and John are confronted with the blinding glory