Events

4th May

Concert – Rachmaninoff’s Vespers

At 8.30pm on Saturday 4th May, join us for Rachmaninoff Vespers and other sacred works by candlight. Tickets can be booked at www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-lyra-singers or on the door.

 

5th May

Visit of the Apostolic Nuncio to St Dominic’s – The Rosary Shrine

Join us for Mass to celebrate the visit of the Apostolic Nuncio to St Dominic’s – The Rosary Shrine. A Mass in thanksgiving for all the benefactors to the recent underfloor heating project begins at 12noon on Sunday 5th May and will be followed by food and drink in the parish hall. All are welcome.

18th May

Conference at the Rosary Shrine: Wisdom and Healing

In a unique blend of academic study, retreat and the art of movement, this conference invites us both to understand and experience the profound connection between the Virgin Mary, healing and wisdom.

“In an age of tribalism and silo thinking in society and sometimes in the churches, the Friends of Sophia boldly draws on the forgotten Biblical figure of Wisdom, who joins together heaven and earth and humankind. Celebrating the fullness of graced human knowing through the interconnection of sciences, humanities, art, spirituality and psychology… a new departure and a healing beginning for difficult times”
– Timothy Radcliffe, 2023

Timothy Radcliffe is a distinguished preacher and writer of the Catholic Dominican Order. His books include Alive in God: A Christian Imagination (Bloomsbury, 2019).

 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

  • Margaret Barker – Wisdom in the book of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)
  • Reza Shah-Kazemi – Sacred Feminine in the Abrahamic family: The Lady Wisdom, The Virgin Mary and Fatima al-Zahra
  • Fr Dominic White OP – Wisdom and Mary
  • Julienne McLean – The Journey of Christian Healing and Counselling
  • Tom Bree – Rosary labyrinth in the Lady Chapel: Incarnational Prayer

 

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Organised by the Friends of Sophia, a collaborative, international project of people united by a common search for Sophia, Wisdom. We are rooted in a Christian centre, from which we engage in conversation with other spiritualities and faith traditions. Our approach is strongly holistic, involving the body and the performing arts as well as the intellect.

Also in collaboration with the centre for initiatives in Spirituality and Reconciliation (InSpiRe) at St Mary’s University, Twickenham (www.stmarys.ac.uk/inspire) and the Dominican Order of Preachers www.english.op.org

19th May

Provincial Pilgrimage to Walsingham 19 May 2024

Join us for the English Dominic pilgrimage to Walsingham on 19 May 2024. Please book via Nuala (contact details on the poster) or give £25 in cash to a priest in a marked envelope after a Sunday Mass.

Departure from St Dominic’s: 8am sharp from outside St Dominic’s church

12noon: Mass

After Mass a picnic lunch (please bring food with you).

Arrival back at St Dominic’s: by 8.45pm

22nd June

Parish and Shrine Pilgrimage to Lourdes 2024

Join us for the parish and shrine pilgrimage to Lourdes this June for 5 nights from 22 June. Bookings close at the end of April 2024.

Sponsor a Lamp

Lighting a Votive Lamp for Your Prayer Intentions Use the secure form below to sponsor one or more lamps in our church. A week-long lamp will burn for your intentions before the Altar of Our Lady of the Rosary, or

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