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Morning Prayer with the Oblates, May 4th
Friends, we join Frankie MacDonald in Glasgow for today’s prayer. Frankie is a member of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Hospitalité, volunteering with the pilgrimage in Lourdes, assisting pilgrims on their journey and time in the Marian Shrine. The apostles saw first hand the persecution taking place and must have felt real fear and isolation. In...
Morning Prayer With the Oblate Family, May 3rd
Dear friends, we invite you to join Heidi Schofield in Holyhead once more for morning prayer. ‘The idea of seeing God’s face is quite frightening for a lot of us, partly from the Old Testament descriptions – he hides himself to protect his people in a cloud, in a flame. I’ve often thought that if...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, May 2nd
Friends, please join Heidi Schofield for today’s morning prayer. “Every person who believes that Jesus is, in fact, the Messiah, is God-born. If we love the One who conceives the child, we’ll surely love the child who was conceived. The reality test on whether or not we love God’s children is this: Do we love...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, May 1st
Good morning and welcome to our morning prayer! Today is the third Sunday of Easter and the Feast of St. Joseph – so what better way to celebrate his feast day than to be joined by Fr Frank Ryan OMI of St Joseph’s Parish, Colwyn Bay, in north Wales. Fr Frank reflects on how we...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, April 30th
Good morning and welcome to our morning prayer! Today, we are joined by Fr Frank Ryan OMI. Fr Frank is from St Joseph’s Parish, Colwyn Bay, in north Wales. “The Word of the Lord continued to spread; the number of the disciples in Jerusalem was greatly increased, and a large number of priests made their...
Funeral Mass of Jeremiah O’Donovan OMI
The death has occurred of Jeremiah Donovan OMI. Fr. Jeremiah Donovan (OMI), Inchicore, Dublin, native of Kilcrohane, Bantry, Co. Cork and a founding member of the Anglo-Irish Province with the OMI Congregation in Brazil has passed away peacefully at Talbot Lodge Nursing Home, Malahide, Co. Dublin on April 26th, 2022, in his 89th year. Very...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, April 29th
You are welcome to join Sr Anne Petit in London for our morning prayer. Sr Anne is a member Congregation of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and their convent is in St John’s Wood, London. Jesus reveals himself through the gospels, we discover the basic attitude of his heart which is...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, Thursday April 28th
You are welcome to join Sr Anne Petit in London for our morning prayer. Sr Anne is a member Congregation of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and their convent is in St John’s Wood, London. “The apostles were brought in and made to appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by...
Morning prayer with the Oblate Family, April 27th
Good morning, friends! “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son.” Today’s gospel is a very well known one, which has powerful images of light and darkness. The first impulse is love. God inhabits the world with loving presence. There is real God-presence here. Sometimes we can miss this and focus...
Morning Prayer With the Oblate Family, Tuesday April 26th
Good morning all, we invite you to join Angela McCullough for our few moments of short prayer and reflection this morning. Angela volunteers with the Oblate Pilgrimage to Lourdes with the Kairos Community Trust Group, and created New Dawn Counselling Services in London. Jesus said to Nicodemus: ‘Do not be surprised when I say:...
