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New Year’s Day at the Rosary Shrine

This Friday, 1 January 2021, is the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. We invite you to come in persona and join us here at Our Lady’s Rosary Shrine for a time of prayer and adoration.

We begin with Solemn Mass in the Ordinary Form at 6pm, with cantor and organ. Mass will be followed at 7pm with a Marian Procession with the statue of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag. The beautiful and unique Dominican Litany of Our Lady will be chanted during this procession, as we entrust ourselves, our families, and all of 2021 to the Blessed Mother.

After the procession, we shall have a period of silent Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, and then at 8pm, we shall pray the Joyful Mysteries of the Holy Rosary in the presence of the Eucharist on the Altar. This Rosary will be livestreamed to <youtube.com/c/RosariumOP> as we are joined by viewers from around the world, including the Intercessor Family of the Marian Devotional Movement from North America. The evening will conclude with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

In addition, Confessions will be heard from 7pm onwards.

For those can’t come personally, the whole evening will also be livestreamed on our usual Rosary Shrine YouTube channel <youtube.com/c/RosaryShrineUK>.

Christmas 2020 at the Rosary Shrine

UPDATE (19 Dec): London enter ‘Tier 4’ from 20 Dec. but the PM states that “communal worship” will still be lawful, so we will continue with our planned schedule below.

Below is the schedule for the coming weeks, beginning with the Simbang Gabi Novena of Masses (16-24 Dec), the schedule for Christmas, and a Mass followed by Marian Procession, Adoration, and Rosary on New Year’s Day.

Printed copies will be available from the friars or stewards at the back of the church.

Induction Mass (6 Dec, 12 noon)

Next Sunday, the 6th of December, at the 12 noon Solemn Mass, which is the 2nd Sunday of Advent, we welcome Bishop Nicholas Hudson back to St Dominic’s. The Bishop will come to celebrate the Mass during which he will induct Fr Lawrence Lew OP as Parish Priest. We hope to see a good representation of parishioners at this Mass, during which there is a beautiful dialogue between the Bishop, the parish priest, and the parishioners. The rite of Induction is reproduced in full below:

Bishop Fr Lawrence, are you willing to co-operate with your Archbishop in preaching Christ in season and out of season, explaining to all the Word of God?
Fr Lawrence I am, with the help of God.
Bishop People of this parish, you are called to preach Christ by the witness of a good life and to hand on the faith to others. Are you willing to do this?
People We are, with the help of God.
Bishop Fr Lawrence, are you ready to pray with the people as well as for them, and to lead and encourage them in their apostolate in the world?
Fr Lawrence I am, with the help of God.
Bishop People of the parish, will you seek through prayer and service to grow in the knowledge of God and to make the Gospel known throughout the world?
People We will, with the help of God.
Bishop Fr Lawrence, will you prepare your people by wise instruction to receive the sacraments worthily and fruitfully?
Fr Lawrence I will, with the help of God.
Bishop People of the parish, will you co-operate with the Parish Priest in preparing the parishioners for the fruitful reception of the Sacraments?
People We will, with the help of God.
Bishop Fr Lawrence, are you willing to celebrate the sacraments faithfully for the glory of God and the sanctification of Christ’s people?
Fr Lawrence I am, with the help of God.
Bishop People of this parish, will you faithfully participate in the Sacred Mysteries so that the Church may be built up as the Body of Christ?
People We will, with the help of God.
Bishop Fr Lawrence, are you willing to care for the marginalised and underprivileged, and to strive for justice and peace, based on the saving Truth of the Gospel?
Fr Lawrence I am, with the help of God.
Bishop People of this parish, are you willing to work for justice and peace in your homes and places of work according to the Gospel?
People We are, with the help of God.
Bishop Fr Lawrence, are you willing to work zealously to overcome division among Christians and to seek the unity for which Jesus prayed?
Fr George I am, with the help of God.
Bishop People of this parish, will you co-operate with other Christians to promote the work of deeper unity?
People We will, with the help of God.
Bishop Fr Lawrence, are you resolved to carry out your duties as a parish priest, giving no grounds for reproach?
Fr George I am, with the help of God.
Bishop People of this parish, will you support your parish priest in the responsibilities into which he is inducted today?
People We will, with the help of God.
ALL STAND
Bishop Let us pray. God our Father, look upon Fr Lawrence, your servant and co-worker with the Archbishop in this place. May his word and example inspire and guide your people here and may he and all those in his care come to the joy of everlasting life. We ask this through Christ our Lord.
People Amen.
The Installation
The new Parish Priest is led by the Bishop to the Presidential Chair and seated in it
Bishop In the name of His Eminence Cardinal Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, I give you the document of your appointment and I entrust to you the keys of the church.
The greetings
The new parish priest stands and faces the congregation
Fr Lawrence People of this parish, I greet you all in the name of Jesus Our Lord.
People We welcome you among us in his name.

Livestream Masses & Devotions

Thanks to our benefactors we have been able to set up a professional-grade livestreaming facility in our church just on time for the current Lockdown!
Throughout the lockdown, we will stream a Mass at 6pm daily, Mondays – Saturdays. On Sundays we will stream both the Sunday 12pm Mass (Ordinary Form) and the Sunday 4pm Mass (Dominican rite/Extraordinary Form).

However, we are not able to livestream to Facebook through this system. The Masses will be livestreamed directly to a new Rosary Shrine YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/RosaryShrineUK

Please click on the link and SUBSCRIBE. If you want to watch the Masses, it’s important to click on ‘Notifications’ so that you’ll be told when the Mass is Live online.

In addition to these Masses, we hope in future to livestream Rosary processions, sacred music concerts, talks, devotions, and more. Thank you for your support.

Currently, every Friday, the Rosary is prayed live at 8pm, and it is streamed to the Dominican Rosary Promoter General’s channel: youtube.com/c/RosariumOP

Pray for our new Parish Priest & Rector

On 15th October, the feast of St Teresa of Ávila, Cardinal Nichols ratified the appointment of Fr Lawrence Lew OP, Prior of St Dominic’s as the new Parish Priest of our parish of Our Lady of the Rosary and St Dominic’s, Haverstock Hill. Currently, the responsibilities of the Rector of the Rosary Shrine will also be undertaken by the Parish Priest.

Please pray for Fr Lawrence Lew in his service and ministry as Prior, Parish Priest, and Rector here at St Dominic’s – the Rosary Shrine. Fr Lawrence arrived in St Dominic’s in June 2017, having just gained his License in Sacred Theology from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington DC. Prior to that (from the time of his priestly ordination in 2011) he had been Assistant Chaplain at Edinburgh University, working alongside Fr Dermot Morrin OP, who has also served as Prior and Parish Priest of St Dominic’s. Fr Lawrence currently also serves as the Dominican Order’s Promoter General for the Holy Rosary; as Spiritual Director for the Westminster Curia of the Legion of Mary; and he is Editor of the English Dominican Province’s magazine, The Dominicans.

The words of St Teresa’s ‘Bookmark’ seems a fitting reflection and prayer for Fr Lawrence as he takes on these new pastoral roles at St Dominic’s, and also for us all at this time when so many are anxious about the coronavirus and our current socio-economic and political situation:

Let nothing disturb you,
nothing frighten you,
All things are passing.
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing.
God is enough.

Amen. May Our Lady, Queen of the Holy Rosary pray for us!

Pray for our new Prior!

On Saturday 29th August 2020, the Dominican community elected Fr Lawrence Lew OP as their new Prior. Please pray for him, and for the community of St Dominic’s Priory.

The role of Prior is distinct from that of the Parish Priest. The Prior is the religious superior of the Dominican friars based here who serve in the parish and the Shrine, but who also have a diverse mission serving in local schools, universities, hospitals, and a prison, as well as giving preached retreats and talks internationally, and teaching at Blackfriars Hall in Oxford.

The Parish Priest of St Dominic’s church is assisted by other friars in the community, and he oversees the mission of the parish and has charge of the pastoral care and sacramental life of the Catholic community who worship here.

In addition to being Prior, Fr Lawrence continues to serve as Promoter General for the Holy Rosary in the General Curia of the Order, and as Rector of the Rosary Shrine, working alongside our parishioners in welcoming pilgrims and visitors and guests to the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Opening Hours & Mass Times

We are not yet “back to normal” but we are delighted to have daily Masses, Confessions, and of course Sunday Mass and Adoration again. Please be vigilant, stay safe, and observe the social distancing guidelines, and wear a mask in church. Below is our current schedule:

Weekly Live Rosary on Fridays

From Friday, 5 June, which is the first Friday of the month of the Sacred Heart, we will be livestreaming the Rosary at 8pm every week to the new YouTube channel of the Dominican Order’s Promoter General of the Rosary. To go to the channel, visit youtube.com/c/RosariumOP. Please be sure to subscribe to the channel, and click for notifications so that you are informed whenever we go Live!

May 2020 – Rosary Mission

May is the month of Our Blessed Mother Mary, and this year the Rosary Shrine in London is pleased to host a Rosary Mission in collaboration with ‘Rosary on the Coast‘ whose Spiritual Director is Scottish Bishop John Keenan of Paisley, and the National Marian Shrine of Scotland at Carfin.

The prayer intentions of the Rosary Mission are as follows:

For Faith, Sanctity of Life, and Peace to prevail in our nations;
For an end to the COVID-19 virus, the sickness it causes, and its efects that prevent us living life in abundance (cf Jn 10:10);
For the protection of the common good, and people’s economic livelihoods;
That the Holy Spirit will preserve us from disaster and war.

Please pray the Rosary every day this month of May for these intentions, and we urge you to do so in a spirit of repentance and reparation, interceding for our nations.

This will culminate in a Nationwide Rosary Rally on Sunday 31st May, Pentecost Sunday, praying for the deliverance from all evils, and for the renewal of all nations through the power of the Holy Spirit.

We invite you to pray the Rosary together with us, and if you can, join us online at 8pm every night this month. We will be livestreaming to our respective Facebook pages following this schedule:

Mondays – Fridays, 8pm, on the London Rosary Shrine’s Facebook page.
Saturdays, 8pm, from Carfin Grotto at the Carfin Grotto Facebook page.
Sundays, 8pm, with Bishop John Keenan, from St Mirin’s Cathedral in Paisley, on the Bishop of Paisley’s Facebook page.

At the end of the Rosary each night, the two prayers given by Pope Francis will be recited.

If you prefer to use YouTube, the Divine Mercy Shrine in Wales will have a daily Rosary at 8pm too.

If you cannot make it at 8pm, you can still pray online with other livestreams, such as:

The Basilica of Our Lady of Walsingham daily at 11am & 3.15pm – www.walsingham.org.uk/livestream
Carfin Grotto, Scotland daily during May at 7pm – Carfin Grotto facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/carfingrotto/
Westminster Cathedral at 5pm each day during May – www.westminstercathedral.org.uk

May Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us!

The Dominicans magazine – Easter edition

Read the e-edition of our latest magazine!

Owing to the current situation, we are distributing the Easter 2020 edition of our magazine electronically rather than as printed copies in our churches.

Reviews of Books by Frs Timothy Radcliffe and Bruno Cadoré
Reburial of a Medieval Friar
History of the Ditchling Arts & Crafts Community
Remembering Fr David Sanders
Br Joseph Bailham’s unexpected year in Bologna
Links for further reading, videos, and more…

READ THE MAGAZINE

St Dominic’s – The Rosary Shrine