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Morning Prayer, Sunday March 20th
Today we invite you to join Sr Joy Christine Elder, of the Oblate Parish of St Joseph’s, Colwyn Bay, North Wales for our morning prayer on the 3rd Sunday of Lent. Spring is a time of joy, hope and gratitude as we see the signs of new life appearing around us. In today’s scripture we...
Feast of Saint Joseph: Oblate Family Morning Prayer
Today we invite you to join James Wilkinson, Head teacher at St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Colwyn Bay, North Wales for our morning prayer as we celebrate Saint Joseph on his feast day. Since March 2020 our lives seem to have involved an endless series of difficult decisions. Like Saint Joseph we are challenged to...
Morning Prayer, Friday March 18th
Today we invite you to join Wendy Taylor-Eardley, a member of the Oblate parish of St Jospeh’s, Colwyn Bay, Wales for our morning prayer. March 18th is the memorial of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem who was bishop of Jerusalem in the 4th century and is a Doctor of the church who fostered the development of...
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Oblate Family Morning Prayer, March 17th
Good morning friends, today we invite you to join Rebecca from the Oblate Communications Team for morning prayer and reflection on Saint Patrick’s Day at an ancient pilgrimage site associated with Saint Patrick in County Mayo, Ireland. Saint Patrick spent 40 days and nights in prayer and fasting on this mountain, and with the help...
“Help the Oppressed” – Morning prayer with the Oblate Family, March 15th
Friends, you are welcome to join Kirk Jacob in London for our short morning prayer, Tuesday March 15th. “‘Wash, make yourselves clean. Take your wrong-doing out of my sight. Cease to do evil. Learn to do good, search for justice, help the oppressed, be just to the orphan, plead for the widow.” Powerful words indeed...
“You will be his very own people” – Morning prayer with the Oblates, March 12th
Friends, we join Fr Paul Horrocks for morning prayer. Paul is a member of the Inchicore Pastoral Team, working in the parishes of Mary Immaculate, Our Lady of the Wayside Bluebell and St Michael’s. Today’s reading leads us to reflect on whether the Lord is truly our God. The question is not as simple and...
Ukrainian Missionary Oblate in Kyiv: ‘We will not leave our people’
Ukrainian priest in Kyiv: ‘We will not leave our people’ As Russian troops continue their devastating invasion of Ukraine, a missionary Catholic priest describes his community’s efforts to carry on offering spiritual and material assistance to parishioners in Kyiv. By Devin Watkins, Vatican News [This article was published on Vatican News] “Oblates do not leave...
Ask. Knock. Seek. Morning prayer with the Oblates, March 10th
We join Fr Johnson OMI in Sacred Heart Quex Road for morning prayer and a reflection on prayer and petition in the season of Lent In today’s gospel passage Jesus speaks about prayer of petition in three words; ask, knock and seek. In other terms Jesus encourages his disciples to keep on asking from God,...
Oblate Family Morning Prayer on the 9th of March
Today we join Padraig Corcoran in Dublin. Pádraig is a member of the Inchicore Pastoral Area Team and the Oblate Youth Worker. The Gospel that Pádraig reads today is one that is read during Lent is a tough one to listen to – Jesus calls a whole generation evil! He points to two people who...
“A you did it to one of the least of these, you did it to me” – Morning prayer with the Oblate Family, March 7th
Join Olga Slater in London this morning as she ponder and reflects on the message of the Gospel today. Today’s gospel reading comes at an interesting and opportune time looking at the world’s current affairs, especially with the suffering we hear of going on in the Ukraine, and other parts of the world. We are...
