Events

Join Speranza Choir in their inaugural concert on the 5th December 2025, to hear the best of Medieval and Renaissance Christmas music.

The concert features compositional masters such as William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Hildegard von Bingen and Josquin de Prez, amongst many others, accompanied by the beautiful backdrop of St. Dominic’s Priory – The Rosary Shrine – a short walk from Belsize Park underground station.

This exciting new choir, founded and directed by Marcello Palazzo, features some of the best young singers working in the UK today. Our members comprise scholars and Lay Clerks of renowned institutions such as King’s College Cambridge, the Royal Academy of Music, Magdalen College Oxford and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

You are invited to join us for the start of a unique musical journey that will traverse many centuries of wonderful music, from the masters of old to the talents of today.

Each first Sunday of the month, you are warmly invited to our parish lunch in the parish hall. This alternates between a roast dinner and an international lunch. A donation of £5-£10 is requested. If you are interested in preparing a dish for a future lunch, please do get in touch with the parish office.

Becoming Dominic is a 2025 documentary film that follows bronze sculptor Kenny Hunter as he creates a life-size statue of St. Dominic. Set in Edinburgh, the film follows the lives of the friars, discovering along the way a parallel between the friars and the artist. The film features some familiar faces, including Fr Dermot Morrin and Fr Matthew Jarvis. The documentary will be screened in the parish hall at 7.15pm on Saturday 22 November.

From 26-29 November we will have once again the 40 Hours devotion (Quarant’Ore), a time to pray before the Blessed Sacrament most especially for the faithful departed.

You can add names to the Book of the Dead and sponsor sanctuary candles in memory of the faithful departed (names will be written on candles and placed at the High Altar during the 40 Hours) by visiting this link.

The month of November is rapidly approaching, the month in which we pray especially for the holy souls.

All Saints (day of obligation) is transferred this year to Sunday 2nd November, and All Souls will be celebrated on Monday 3rd November (Mass as usual at 10am but a Solemn Mass at 6pm).

From 26-29 November we will have once again the 40 Hours devotion (Quarant’Ore), a time to pray before the Blessed Sacrament most especially for the faithful departed.

You can add names to the Book of the Dead and sponsor sanctuary candles in memory of the faithful departed (names will be written on candles and placed at the High Altar during the 40 Hours) by visiting this link.

We are pleased to share with you information concerning monthly organ recitals that are to take place this year. We hope you will be able to join us.

Come join us this Friday evening at 7pm for our Advent Eucharistic Healing Service accompanied by sacred chant and music performed by the choral scholars of St Dominic’s-The Rosary Shrine. All are welcome.

Put the dates in your diary! Our Christmas fayre will take place from 12noon on Saturday 7 December and we will also have a Children’s Christmas Party on 15th December straight after the Sunday 10am Family Mass.

If you’re able to contribute items like cakes, hampers, toiletries, alcohol, etc. for the Christmas Fayre, please contact the parish secretary at london.secretary@english.op.org

Come join us on Saturday 23 November at 7.30pm for a concert of Brahm’s Requiem by the Lyra Singers. Tickets can be booked here.

There are a number of events happening at St Dominic’s – The Rosary Shrine in the month of November, the month of the Holy Souls. We hope you can join us for some or all of it!

It is a long and venerable tradition to offer Masses for the faithful departed in this month of November. Masses can be booked online (names will be added to the Book of the Dead for November) and all evening Masses in November will be offered for the deceased. Also it is possible to sponsor a sanctuary candle that will burn through the 40 Hours devotion (extended period of Adoration across a few days) when we will gather to pray for the faithful departed.

Masses and candles can be booked and sponsored here.