Friends, we invite you to join Rosemary Gillon, a member of the Oblate Parish of St Mary’s, Star of the Sea in Leith, Edinburgh. Christ the greatest of all teachers taught through parables. “Jesus said to the crowd, ‘Would you bring in a lamp to put it under a tub or under the bed? Surely...

About Lourdes and the Oblate Connection The Oblate Community has a long connection with the Shrine of Our Lady in Lourdes, a small town in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains in the South West of France. In 1859, on the 11th of February, Bernadette, a 14 year old girl from the village of Lourdes,...

Friends, we invite you to join Trudy Shaw, a member of the Oblate Parish of St Mary’s, Star of the Sea in Leith, Edinburgh. And there are those who have received the seed in rich soil: they hear the word and accept it and yield a harvest, thirty and sixty and a hundredfold. Mark 4:1-20...

25 January 1816 marked the first day of community life for the Missionaries, with the arrival of the first three members. What we refer to today as the Mazenodian Family was born! Eugene had bought some of the Carmelite Convent, with an arrangement that the seller, Madame Gontier, could continue using the greater part of...

Friends, we invite you to join Chris Rolland, a member of the Oblate Parish of St Mary’s, Star of the Sea in Leith, Edinburgh. Jesus showed himself to the Eleven and said to them:   ‘Go out to the whole world; proclaim the Good News to all creation. He who believes and is baptised will be...

Friends, we invite you to join Chris Rolland, a member of the Oblate Parish of St Mary’s, Star of the Sea in Leith, Edinburgh. So he called them to him and spoke to them in parables, ‘How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot last. And if...

Friends, we invite you to join Joyce Fegan, a member of the Oblate Parish of St Mary’s, Star of the Sea in Leith, Edinburgh. In today’s reading St Paul tells us makes the point that the human body is made up of many parts, working together. And so our church functions in the same way....

Friends, we join Anthony Kramers, part of St Mary’s, Star of the Sea in Leith – thank you for joining us today. We gather as a community of hope. In our story from scripture today, we hear of a family who are living with mental illness, or their fear of mental illness: a young man...

Friends, we invite you to join Colin Izzard, an Anglican Lay Minister from Mill Hill, London for morning prayer. Colin is a regular follower of this online daily time of prayer, reflection and community. “Jesus went up into the hills and summoned those he wanted. So they came to him and he appointed twelve; they...

Friends, we invite you to join Colin Izzard, an Anglican Lay Minister from Mill Hill, London for morning prayer. Colin is a regular follower of this online daily time of prayer, reflection and community. He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not crush...