Dear friends, today we invite you to pray with Lisa and Donncha in Dublin for a short time on this Tuesday December 7th in the 2nd week of our Advent journey as we prepare for the great celebration of the birth of Jesus. Today’s gospel reading is really powerful – showing how Jesus will always...

Good Morning. Ros Appleby is praying with each one of us again today from her home in Birkenhead, England. Ros reflects this morning on the story in today’s gospel where we see a paralysed man with determined friends comes before Jesus. The faith of the man and his friends was inspirational. If we were there,...

Good Morning. Ros Appleby is praying with each one of us this second Sunday of Advent from her home in England as she reflects on the scripture readings of today. In last Sunday’s gospel we hear that we must stay awake and be ready to welcome Christ, and that we have to grow up a...

Dear friends, join Gerard Bennett of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team in Westmeath for today’s morning prayer for Advent. Jesus felt sorry for the people he met in todays gospel – they were like ‘sheep without a shepherd’ – it was an emotional response. Jesus reacts in many gospel stories in an emotional way. Jesus...

Dear friends, join Gerard Bennett of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team in Westmeath for today’s morning prayer for Advent. Jesus was on a journey. We don’t know how long that journey was. The blind men who were following Jesus must have found this journey very difficult. They persisted, and pleaded with Jesus. This reminds us...

Friends, join Mary O’Brien of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team in Dublin for today’s morning prayer for Advent. Today’s gospel could be a clear example that points to the saying action speak louder than words. Jesus doesn’t just want us to give lip service to prayer. Prayer just by itself can be a bit like...

Come and join us every Wednesday from 7 – 8 pm Express yourself in a light-hearted way through various forms of creativity and reflection. No experience is required – All are very welcome. Materials are provided but feel free to use your own. Join in person: Oblate Retreat & Spirituality Centre De Mazenod House, 62...

Friends, you are invited to join Fr Lorcan in the Oblate Retreat Centre, Wistaston Hall, Crewe for morning prayer on the 1st of December. In today’s scripture text we see a beautiful example of Jesus’ compassion and tenderness. In his reflection on this text, Pope Francis invites us to try and imagine this scene in...

Good Morning friends. In this first week of Advent, we join Father Dominik of the Oblate parish of Our Lady of the Wayside in Dublin once more for our morning prayer. He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” At once they left their nets and followed him....

Friends, please join Fr Dominik in Our Lady of the Wayside Parish for morning prayer together on this first Monday of Advent as we reflect on the gospel reading from today’s mass where Jesus hears the prayers of the centurion… We read about a Roman soldier, a pagan, who comes to seek Our Lord’s aid....