Thank you Lord for giving us another beautiful day to experience your love. We join Fr Vimal in the Oblate Parish of St Joseph’s, in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. Lord, bless us today as we listen and receive your message. Jesus and his disciples left for the villages round Caesarea Philippi. On the way he...

We join Sr Bernadette again for this morning for our prayer. Bernadette is a member of the Presentation Sisters and is chaplain in TU Dublin (Technical University Dublin). Again, Jesus uses some well known images from the garden to make his point: “A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree...

We join Sr Bernadette Purcell for today’s prayer. Bernadette is a member of the Presentation Sisters and is chaplain in TU Dublin (Technical University Dublin).  Sr Bernadette reflects on our gospel today, and the parable Jesus tells us, which tries to get his audience to see in a new way. What prevents us from seeing...

Good morning friends. Fr Johnson of the Oblate Parishes in Kilburn, London, leads us in our daily morning prayer today, Thursday September 9th. In today’s gospel, Jesus invites us to love our enemies, and to do good to those who persecute us, pray for those who treat us badly, to give to others without any...

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. Today, September 8th, is the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. “The virgin will...

Friends, please see some images from the Oblates of Mary Immaculate of the Mediterranean Province in Italy of the reception of Novices. Included in the event is Carl Lanigan, who comes from Darndale in Dublin. We wish Carl every blessing as he continues his faith journey in this time of discernment.   Carl says: “It...

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. During this time of prayer let us remember especially the people fleeing from their countries because of...

On this Monday morning, we join Fr Dermot Mills OMI in the Oblate Parish of St Michael’s in Inchicore, Dublin. Jesus continually gives his care and attention to those who the rest of the world might say don’t matter, the sick, the weak, the outcasts. They sought him out in their droves. Why? He spoke...

On this Sunday morning, we join Fr Dermot Mills OMI in the Oblate Parish of St Michael’s in Inchicore, Dublin. We must be ready for the workings of God in our every day lives, in ordinary everyday ways, because God is full of surprises. Pope Francis regularly says that “Our God is a god of...

Good morning everyone, today’s prayer is presented by Mary Pratt, a member of the Oblate Parish of English Martyrs, Tower Hill, in the heart of London City. Plucking a blackberry without thinking, or, as the disciples did in today’s reading, some corn, is something we often did as children. Such actions could be seen as...