In the weeks leading up to this pilgrimage, we spoke frequently about how different this pilgrimage was going to be in so many ways. To be sure, not having been in Lourdes with the pilgrimage after an absence of three years, we knew that being back would have a different sense about it. A year...

Watch back: Pilgrimage events from Lourdes 2022 Day 1 – Saturday September 17th Day 2 – Sunday September 18th Day 3 – Monday September 19th Day 4 – Tuesday September 20th Day 5 – Wednesday September 21st Day 1 Events: Opening Ceremony Saturday 17th September 7.45pm (Irish/UK time) was streamed live here: https://www.youtube.com/LourdesWebTV Dear friends,...

Good morning everyone and welcome to Day Four of our pilgrimage! This morning’s prayer comes from a very busy and vibrant Lourdes and is led by Fr Liam who spent over 10 years working here in Lourdes as chaplain. This morning he speaks to us about the message of Lourdes and Bernadette means for each...

Our day starts at the Crowned Virgin statue.  Anyone who has even been to Lourdes knows this place. For those who have not, it is a central point, in front of the Basilica of Our Lady of Lourdes, with a statue that faces the Basilica.  By now, all of our groups have arrived. Despite the...

Friends, we invite you to join Fr Terry Murray OMI who is a priest in the Oblate Parishes of Kilburn, and Ify who travelled from the USA via Kilburn to Lourdes for the pilgrimage, for this morning’s time of prayer. Seated opposite the beautiful Grotto of Lourdes, we spend a short time in prayer and...

Long lost friends! So many times today, it has been a case of catching up with long lost friends. The reality of the time gap has taken hold today. When we talk, the first phrase can be to refer to, “last year” until we have to stop ourselves and say, no, it wasn’t last year...

Friends, Day Two of our pilgrimage is upon us and we invite you to begin this day with a short morning prayer and reflection with Mary O’Brien of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team at the statue of the Crowned Virgin in the Sanctuary of Lourdes. Our reflection today focuses on the gospel reading from our...

If everything had gone as planned, then I would have started writing my first instalment of the pilgrimage blog yesterday, Friday. However, French Air Traffic Control had other plans and so it was that there was no travel yesterday. People are converging on Lourdes from many parts of the Oblate world throughout Britain and Ireland....

Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Prayer on the first day of our Lourdes pilgrimage this year. We join Gerard Bennett, of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team. The Gospel reading is from Luke, and is the parable of the sower, planting his seeds different surfaces – rich soil, rock, path and thorns. Today, we...

Seven Lay Associates participate in the 37th Oblate General Chapter currently taking place in Nemi, Rome, and with is PaulineThomas of our own province. Pauline is the Oblate Pastoral Associate in the OMI Centre of Mission on Anglesey, Wales. You can watch back their conversation at the video below: