Good morning friends, today we join Kirk Jacob of the Oblate Partners in Mission Team in Lourdes for morning prayer. The theme of today’s prayer is the invitation to be an ‘Anawim’. The anawim of the Old Testament were the poor of every sort: the vulnerable, the marginalized, and socio-economically oppressed, those of lowly status...

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, our seven Faith Communities on Anglesey were engaged in a journey of conversation and prayerful reflection, through many small house groups across Anglesey, in preparation for our Island Assembly to be held May 2020. The COVID pandemic brought our journey to an abrupt halt! After the interruption of Covid lockdowns,...

Good morning, everyone! Today, we join Kay Curran, of the Oblates Lourdes Pilgrimage Team, for our morning prayer together. Today’s Gospel reading is from Luke, and is Mary’s Magnificat. The reading is full of reflection on what makes Mary great in the eyes of God. Our lives can be full with doubt, difficulty, suffering and...

Good morning, everyone! Today, we join Kay Curran, of the Oblates Lourdes Pilgrimage Team, for our morning prayer together. Today’s Gospel reading is from Hebrews. Thank you for joining us this morning.

Dear friends. We invite you to join Fr Michael Brady OMI once more in Inchicore for today’s short prayer and reflection.  Today’s gospel is about Jesus and the children. Think about how children experience life. Everything new ignites within them the capacity to wonder. They aren’t laden down with plans for tomorrow. That is what...

Dear friends, we invite you to join Fr Michael Brady OMI in Inchicore for today’s short prayer and reflection. Today’s gospel reading is one that speaks about the important of marriage. He calls on those who are married to live in true dialogue with whom they walk the path of life – so that nobody...

Good morning dear friends! We join Fr Vimal once again in Saint Joseph’s Parish, Colwyn Bay for morning prayer. Today we celebrate the Feast of Saint Claire of Assisi. How do we pray? How much time to give to prayer? How is the quality of our prayer life? Do we have a prayer life?  Claire...

Good morning dear friends! We join Fr Vimal in Saint Joseph’s Parish, Colwyn Bay for morning prayer. Today we celebrate the Feast of Saint Laurence, patron saint of the poor and of cooks. Let us ask Laurence to intercede for us and our families. A beautiful sentence for our reflection from today’s first reading: “Each...

On behalf of the core team charged with planning and organising the participation of lay people associated with the Oblates of the Anglo Irish Province in the recent Oblate Lay Associations Congress, we would like to thank you very sincerely for the very many ways in which you engaged with the Congress and the pre-Congress...

Good morning dear friends! We join Fr Frank once in Wales – in Saint Joseph’s Parish, Colwyn Bay for morning prayer. Today we celebrate the Feast of Theresa Benedicta of the Cross, also known as Edith Stein. She was born into a practising Jewish family, who loved her and supported her as she continued in...