Oblate News
Virtual Pilgrimage: Morning Reflection at 8.30am
Morning Reflection with Pádraig Corcoran Pádraig is the Oblate Youth Worker based in Saint Michael’s Parish in Inchicore. He is also Director of the Oblate Youth Service and co-ordinates the OYS in Lourdes each year. Join him for this morning’s reflection. Please continue your prayers and petitions to lourdes@oblates.ie – we are praying with you...
Virtual Pilgrimage: The Way of the Cross
The Way of the Cross with Kairos Community Trust This very special Way of the Cross is brought to you by the Kairos Community Trust in London – a charity working with a thriving community of men and women recovering from lives of addiction and homelessness across London. For the past 10 years members of...
Virtual Pilgrimage 2020: Mass of the Immaculate Conception at the Grotto
Celebrant: Fr Liam Griffin OMI – Fr Liam is part of the Oblate Provincial Administration and ministered in Lourdes to English-speaking pilgrims for ten years. We invite you to join today’s mass from the “Irish Lourdes” – the Lourdes Grotto in Inchicore. Thanks to Kairos Communications for their help with the recording of this mass...
Virtual Lourdes Pilgrimage: Morning Reflection at 8.30am
Morning Reflection with Sinéad Hanafin Peg Hanafin, author and poet, was an assisted pilgrim who travelled to Lourdes with us for many years. Peg sadly went home to God this summer and her daughter, Sinéad, presents a reflection Peg had prepared especially for this Virtual Pilgrimage. Please continue your prayers and petitions to lourdes@oblates.ie – we...
Virtual Lourdes Pilgrimage 2020: The Holy Rosary
Beginning at the Grotto in Inchicore join us for the Rosary with decades prayed by members of the Oblate family from Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales and the island of Jersey. Send your prayers and petitions to lourdes@oblates.ie – we are praying with you and for you over these next few days! #bringinglourdeshome #alwaysclosetothepeople...
Opening Pilgrimage Mass at the Grotto in Inchicore at 12 noon
We invite you to join us for today’s mass, Sunday 20th September, the 25th Sunday in ordinary time, and the opening mass of our virtual pilgrimage. With thanks to Kairos Communications for their help in recording this very special mass at the Grotto. Thank you to all you helped us prepare and contributed to...
Virtual Lourdes Pilgrimage: Morning Prayer with Bishop Ray Field
Bishop Field is a former barrister, a member of the first successful Irish expedition to Mount Everest in 1993, and also served as a prison chaplain and head chaplain of the Defence Forces. In September 1997 he was appointed Titular Bishop of Ard Mór and Auxiliary bishop of Dublin. He has accompanied the Oblate Pilgrimage...
Virtual Pilgrimage: Opening Service & Taizé Prayer
Join the Oblate Youth Service, who serve our assisted pilgrims so wonderfully each year in Lourdes, in the Oblate parish of Saint Michael’s, Inchicore as we begin our Virtual Pilgrimage together with a time of Taizé prayer and song before the Cross. Our pilgrimage candle is lit in Lourdes by Mons Xavier d’Adrodes & Laura...
Morning Prayer: September 19th
Join Gerard Bennett from the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage team for our morning prayer. Please join with us later today as we begin our virtual pilgrimage. “If I, then, the Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you must wash each other’s feet. I have given you an example so that you may copy what I...
Bringing Lourdes Home: Virtual Pilgrimage
We are delighted to present a Virtual Lourdes Pilgrimage beginning Saturday 19th of September to Wednesday 23rd of September. Even though Covid-19 has prevented our pilgrimage from travelling to Lourdes this year, the Oblate Pilgrimage invites you to join with us online. Using the theme “Bringing Lourdes Home”, we will use these few days to prayerfully...