Good morning all, we invite you to join Pat Hughes for morning prayer from Birkenhead, England. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of John 17, where Jesus prays “not only for these but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you Father are...

Dear friends, please pray for Fr Ned Carolan OMI who has died.   Carolan. Fr. Edward (Ned) O.M.I. (House of Retreat, Inchicore and formerly Killinkere, Co. Cavan) – May 29th 2022. Very peacefully in the wonderful care of staff at Kiltipper Woods Nursing Home. Predeceased by his sisters Mary, Annie and Rose, brothers Pat and...

Good morning all, we invite you to join Sr Anne Donnelly for morning prayer from the Oblate Retreat Centre in Crewe. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of John, where Jesus says, “Holy Father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one, like us.” Thank you for...

Good morning all, we invite you to join Sr Anne Donnelly for morning prayer from the Oblate Retreat Centre in Crewe. Today is the Visitation of Mary, where she comes to Elizabeth. And Mary said: “My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour, for he has been mindful of the...

Good morning all, we invite you to join Catherine Mullin for morning prayer in the community library and archives in the Oblate House of Retreat, Inchicore. Catherine has worked in her role as provincial archivist for the Anglo-Irish Province of the Oblates for a number of years. Today we pray in a special way for...

And with that, it was all over! For the best part of eighteen months and since our planning began for the participation of the Anglo-Irish Province – England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland – in the worldwide second Oblate Lay Associations Congress (OLAC), talking about an event taking place at the end of May 2022 always...

We join Kirk Jacob from England and Martina from Germany who are both in the Oblate Centre in Kokotec to participate in the European Regional gathering for OLAC 2022 – the 2nd Oblate Lay Associations Congress. Today is also the feast of Blessed Joseph Gerard OMI, a French Oblate who had a deep devotion to...

If food be the music of life, play on! So Shakespeare wrote all those years ago. And there is no doubt but that what we eat can play a big part in how we can enjoy our time – or otherwise.  I have spent over 40 years going to Lourdes with the pilgrimage and when...

We join Gerard Bennett who is in the Oblate Centre in Kokotec for the European Regional Hub for OLAC 2022 – the 2nd Oblate Lay Associations Congress. Together with 119 people in total, they are gathered in Poland as Oblate People – to think and understand how we live our lives as Oblate people, and...

So already, day one is over. After all the hassle of travelling yesterday, I went to bed, happy that at last I am here, that I have settled into my room, and awoke early, having had a reasonably good night’s sleep. There was a ‘social event’ last evening, but I decided that the wiser choice...