“I am beginning to take active steps to carry out my Oxford dreams,” the Dominican Fr Raphael Moss confided to his diary on 26 June 1904. His dream was to send a young friar to study at the university, and his choice for the “experiment” fell on an intelligent, passionate, young man from a military family, Bede Jarrett. To that dream we may trace Fr Bede’s own dream: he laboured tirelessly over many years as Provincial of the English Dominicans from 1916 to 1932, to build a priory at Oxford, the foundation stone of which was laid in 1921. Behind both dreams was the vision shared by St Dominic and the friars gathered round him in Bologna at Pentecost 1221, when they sent 13 men to make Oxford the hub of a preaching mission in the British Isles.