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Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: July 20th
Good morning everyone, today we join Angie, from London, for our time of morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Matthew, and the famous parable of the sower. Some seeds fell on the edge of the path and the birds ate them up; others fell on rock, where they found little soil and...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, July 19th
Good morning everyone, today we join Angie, from London, for our time of morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Matthew. “My mother and my brothers are anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven.” Who is our family? Is it just those united by blood, or does it go beyond...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, July 18th
Good morning everyone, today we join Patsy for our time of morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Matthew. This is what the Lord asks of you: to act justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with God. Many thanks for joining us for this time of prayer and community this morning.
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, July 17th
Good morning everyone, today we join Patsy for our time of morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke. The best kind of welcome is when we forget ourselves and focus on what our visitor really wants. When Jesus comes to visit in this reading, what he wants is conversation – he wanted...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, July 16th
Friends, we join Chaher Rhomaei at De Mazenod House Retreat and Spirituality Centre in Tower Hill, London for our morning prayer on July 16th. Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Mount Carmel is a very ancient place, and referred to as a holy place before the time of Christ, and the...
When Our World Is Falling Apart
The early years of my adulthood and priesthood were spent teaching theology at Newman Theological College in Edmonton, Canada. I was young, full of energy, loved teaching, and was discovering the joys of ministry. For the most part, these were good years. However, they weren’t always easy. Restlessness and inner chaos find us all. The...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, July 15th
Friends, we join Chaher Rhomaei who is in De Mazenod House Retreat and Spirituality Centre in Tower Hill, London. Today we join Chaher in reflecting on the first reading of today’s mass through art. Today is also the Feast day of Saint Bonaventure. We listen to the reading from Isaiah 38 where the Lord hears...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, July 14th
Good morning everyone, today we join Caroline in Cumbria for our time of morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Matthew. “Come to me, all you that are weary and carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.” With a lot going on in the world, it feels like times are uncertain....
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, July 13th
Good morning everyone, today we join Caroline in Cumbria for our time of morning prayer, and where she also reflects on some of the beautiful imagery that we read in the Gospel reading from today’s mass. “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and...
Honouring South Africa’s late social justice activist Archbishop Denis Hurley
The late South African Archbishop, and social justice and anti-apartheid campaigner, Denis Hurley of the Order of Mary Immaculate or OMI (1915-2004) was archbishop of Durban from 1951 until 1992. Born in Cape Town to Irish emigrant parents, he spent his early years on Robben Island – site of the jail in which Nelson Mandela...
