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Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Tuesday November 9th
Good morning friends, please join with Gerard Bissett in Dublin for our morning prayer. In today’s gospel reading, Jesus casts out the money changers from the temple. We consider what relevance this passage of scripture might have for us in our own lives today. But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body,...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Monday November 8th
Good morning friends, please join Fr Eduardo in the Oblate mission of Darndale-Belcamp, North Dublin, for our prayer together today. O Lord, you search me and you know me, you know my resting and my rising, you discern my purpose from afar. You mark when I walk or lie down, all my ways lie open...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Sunday November 7th
Good morning friends, please join Fr Eduardo in the Oblate mission of Darndale-Belcamp, North Dublin, for our prayer together today. A poor widow came and put in two small coins, the equivalent of a penny. Then he called his disciples and said to them, ‘I tell you solemnly, this poor widow has put more in...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Saturday November 6th
Good morning, we join Fr Liam Griffin OMI once again for our prayer. We are here in the Oblate Cemetery, Inchicore, Dublin on the Feast of All Saints of Ireland. Those who lie here can certainly be included among that Communion of Saints. Today, we will gather as an Oblate Province for our annual remembrance...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Friday November 5th
Good morning. We join Liam Griffin, an Oblate of Mary Immaculate and a member of the Provincial Administration, in Inchicore for our time of prayer at the beginning of this November day as we gather from far and wide. Let us begin this time together by bringing ourselves into the presence of God as we...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Thursday November 4th
We join Lynn Kyei Poakwah, a member of the Oblate Parish of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in West Kilburn, for morning prayer today. Today’s gospel is the well-known image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd. He alone is the only Good Shepherd who is willing to die for those who put their faith in...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Wednesday November 3rd
We join Lynn Kyei Poakwah, a member of the Oblate Parish of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in West Kilburn for morning prayer today. Today’s gospel teaches us about the cost of discipleship. Do we try and make Jesus first and foremost in our lives? Jesus wants us to care deeply about our family, friends...
Morning Prayer: Tuesday 2nd of November, All Souls Day
Good morning everyone. We invite you to join Pádraig this morning for our time of prayer on this the feast of All Souls. Today, and all throughout the month of November, we remember and pray for in a particular way all of our loved ones who have died and gone before us, remembering with hope...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Monday November 1st, Feast of All Saints
We join Padraig Corcoran, Oblate youth worker, who works with the Oblate parish of St Michael’s and the Inchicore Pastoral Area in Dublin. Today’s gospel gives us The Beatitudes and it is an appropriate reading for today’s feast of All Saints, where we commemorate all the saints of the church, both known and unknown. Let...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Sunday October 31st
Dear friends, join Jarlath in Dublin for morning prayer today. In the UK, the Feasts of All Saints is celebrated today. In Ireland, we celebrate that feast tomorrow on 1st November. In ancient times the last day of October was a popular day for festivals – at the close of the harvest. The old Irish...