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Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: Thursday 8th September
Good morning, everyone! Today, we invite you to join Fr Martin Moran OMI, from St. Mary’s Star of the Sea parish, in Leith, Edinburgh, for our morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Matthew. It describes how Jesus was born – Mary being pregnant, Joseph suggesting to divorce and the angel telling him...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: Wednesday 7th September
Good morning, everyone! Today, we invite you to join Fr Martin Moran OMI, from St. Mary’s Star of the Sea parish, in Leith, Edinburgh, for our morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke. It is of the Beatitudes. The happiness that Jesus speaks of in today’s reading is not based on fleeting...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: Tuesday 6th September
Good morning, everyone! Today, we invite you to join Tina Doherty, from St. Mary’s Star of the Sea parish, in Leith, Edinburgh, for our morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke. In it, Jesus calls the names of his twelve apostles and heals the people nearby. Before that, Jesus had gone up...
New bonds of friendships take shape in Kokotek
My name is Kirk Jacob and I would like to share my personal experience of the second Oblate Lay Congress through the medium of short interview-style questions and personal responses to each of them. How has the experience changed me? The experience of being at Kokotek, Poland, really transformed my life as I came to...
Carl Lanigan to make First Vows on Thursday 8 September
Carl Lanigan will make his First Vows on Thursday 8 September in Rome, in the parish of the Most Holy Trinity, Marino, at 4:30pm local time, 3:30 pm BST. The event will be livestreamed through Facebook here > Fr Ray Warren and Fr Dermot Mills will represent the Province. Ray will receive Carl’s...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: Monday 5th September
Good morning, everyone! Today, we invite you to join Joyce Fegan, from St. Mary’s Star of the Sea parish, in Leith, Edinburgh, for our morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke. It is about the time when Jesus healed the man with the withered hand on the Sabbath, much to the...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: Sunday 4th September
Good morning everyone, and thank you for joining us today, on Sunday 4th September, for morning prayer. Today, we are with Kathy Barclay, from St. Mary’s Star of the Sea, in Leith. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke, where Jesus gives the message that we have to be prepared to give up everything...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: Saturday 3rd September
Good morning, everyone! Today, we invite you to join Chris Rowlands, from St. Mary’s Star of the Sea parish, in Leith, Edinburgh, for our morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke. In it, Jesus is questioned by the Pharisees as to why his disciples are eating and drinking, instead of fasting. Jesus...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: Friday 2nd September
Good morning, everyone! Today, we invite you to join Chris Rowland, from St. Mary’s Star of the Sea parish, in Leith, Edinburgh, for our morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke. It recalls the time when Jesus performed a miracle of fish, with Peter, James and John. The apostles didn’t know about...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: Thursday 1st September
Good morning, everyone! Today, we invite you to join Veronica Halloran, from St. Mary’s Star of the Sea parish, in Leith, Edinburgh, for our morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke, where Jesus and his disciples eat corn from the fields on the Sabbath – much to the disapproval of the Pharisees....