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Wednesday “Lenten Lunches” in St Mary’s Parish, Holyhead
For many years, St Mary’s parishioners in Holyhead, have organized “Lenten Lunches” on the Wednesdays during the holy season of Lent. The Lunches consist of some bread and cheese along with a bowl of soup. There is an entry fee to the lunch along with the purchase of raffle tickets. The prizes in the raffle...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, Tuesday April 12th
Good morning! We join Mossie Lyons of Kairos Community Trust for prayer today, and we reflect on the the last supper of Jesus and his disciples, and the institution of the Eucharist. We pray; Lord, help us to reflect on and remember with each other and with you, your Passion and Death, and celebrate your...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, Monday April 11th
Good morning! We join Mossie Lyons of Kairos Community Trust for prayer today. As we mark the beginning of Holy Week, how might we pray through the next few days? Listen to Mossie’s suggestions for how you can make Holy Week real in your daily life during this week. We pray; Lord, help us to...
Palm Sunday in Quex Road
See photos and a short clip of the vibrant parish community celebrating Palm Sunday in the Oblate Church of Sacred Heart, Quex Road in Kilburn, London. Also pictured below are the donations from the young people at mass today Palm sunday, for the foodbank at Quex Road – Faith in Action! What an amazing community....
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family on Palm Sunday
Good morning friends! Today is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, the most solemn time of the church calendar where we recollect the passion and death of our Lord. We join Fr Lorcan Ó Reilly OMI, director of the Oblate Retreat Centre in Crewe for our daily morning prayer. Did you ever stop and...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, Saturday April 9th
Good morning! We join James, from London, for prayer today. God humbled himself to become one of us, and was subjected to ridicule, abuse and, ultimately, was killed by those who feared him. In our daily lives, do we give God the gratitude with owe him? Do we appreciate how much the God of the...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, Friday April 8th
Good morning! We invite you to join with Patsy Thomas, in Beaumaris, for our daily morning prayer. Lord Jesus Christ, help us to examine ourselves humbly and honestly, seeing ourselves as we really are. Help us to face the truths we’d rather ignore, to admit those mistakes we’d rather not own up to. Thank you...
‘You are not alone’ – a reflection during covid times
Over the last two years, we have all experienced feelings of uncertainty, loneliness and “aloneness” due to the global pandemic. At times, it has felt like we have carried our grief and our joys, our ups and our downs all by ourselves, but when we reflect on our global covid reality, we were never really...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, Thursday April 7th
Dear friends, We invite you to join with Patsy Thomas in Beaumaris for our daily morning prayer. Jesus tries to explain that he was sent by God and he knows God. But the people don’t want to hear any more. These words of Jesus reach back to days of Abraham and to a time before...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, April 6th
Good morning! We join Fr Eduardo in Darndale-Belcamp in the Oblate Parish of Our Lady Immaculate for prayer today. Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord; hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleading. If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt, who would survive? But...