Michael McLoughlin of the Bristol Lay Fraternity who lives in Cardiff, chairs a Lay Fraternal Group in the Welsh capital. Our understanding is that the group meets on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month at the Catholic Chaplaincy at Cardiff University. The meeting begins at 9.30 am for Morning Prayer in the Oratory of the Chaplaincy followed by Mass in the chapel of Nazareth House on the same site. Mass is followed by sharing of next day's Sunday Gospel and discussion of a book. The discussion is led by one of the members of the group. They finish around noon back in the Oratory for Midday Prayer. Michael McLoughlin can be contacted on
michaelmcloughlin57@gmail.com
Please contact him for any updates regarding the Group's meetings and news. Car parking is available at the Chaplaincy and it is fifteen minutes walk from Cardiff Central Station.
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We are told 'that the Dominicans founded a prep school at Llangarth Court in Monmouthshire in 1947. Llangarth was a centre of Welsh recusancy and the Court was a landed estate of a member of the local Catholic gentry. - the senior branch of the Herbert clan called Jones of Treowen. The Dominicans sold the school to the Benedictines of Belmont Abbey in 1967 and it closed in 1986. The big house is now a mental home but the chapel still serves as the Catholic parish church and is probably the oldest post-Reformation Catholic church in Wales.
There were five Dominican priories in Wales in the Middle Ages, the first being founded at Haverford West and one at Cardiff. But the only existing remains standing (only the outline remains of the Cardiff friary) are those of the Brecon friary which have been incorporated into a public school there. The choir of the friary is now the school chapel. The Welsh Dominicans do not seem to have made much impact on Welsh history - the Franciscans are mentioned more frequently. But there were several Welsh Dominican bishops in England.'
michaelmcloughlin57@gmail.com
Please contact him for any updates regarding the Group's meetings and news. Car parking is available at the Chaplaincy and it is fifteen minutes walk from Cardiff Central Station.
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We are told 'that the Dominicans founded a prep school at Llangarth Court in Monmouthshire in 1947. Llangarth was a centre of Welsh recusancy and the Court was a landed estate of a member of the local Catholic gentry. - the senior branch of the Herbert clan called Jones of Treowen. The Dominicans sold the school to the Benedictines of Belmont Abbey in 1967 and it closed in 1986. The big house is now a mental home but the chapel still serves as the Catholic parish church and is probably the oldest post-Reformation Catholic church in Wales.
There were five Dominican priories in Wales in the Middle Ages, the first being founded at Haverford West and one at Cardiff. But the only existing remains standing (only the outline remains of the Cardiff friary) are those of the Brecon friary which have been incorporated into a public school there. The choir of the friary is now the school chapel. The Welsh Dominicans do not seem to have made much impact on Welsh history - the Franciscans are mentioned more frequently. But there were several Welsh Dominican bishops in England.'
