Saints

On Tuesday the 9th of December, the Holy Father approved several miracles and declarations of heroic virtue, moving nine people

Today we remember the Dominican Martyrs of Vietnam. Many of them were European missionaries supported by the King of Spain.

November is a time for remembering the dead, and on 18th November, Blackfriars was privileged to host a special talk

During his life our Holy Father St Dominic dreamed of going to the pagan mission fields of the East to

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was proclaimed a patron saint of Europe in 1999. Along with Catherine of Siena

Readings: 2 Corinthians 4:7-15; Psalm 125; Matthew 20:20-28 The Gospel lists of the twelve disciples appointed by Jesus to be his

One could explain in many ways, I suppose, why St Benedict is one of the patron saints of Europe. We

The Feast of Sts Peter and Paul celebrates the two outstanding apostles of the Church.  In many ways these two men

The Feast of the Translation of St Dominic There is something very striking in the life of Dominic de Guzman. Many

Catherine of Siena was born Caterina di Giacomo di Benincasa in 1347 in the Fontebranda district of Siena, the twenty-fourth

Readings: 2 Samuel 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16; Psalm 89; Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22; Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24aJoseph was told in the

‘Do the little things in life’ (‘Gwnewch y pethau bychain mewn bywyd’) is a very common Welsh phrase, and one