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Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, Holy Thursday
Dear Friends, on this Holy Thursday morning, and on the first day of our three days of Easter Celebration, we invite you to join Martina Cooley for today’s reflection. Martina lives in South East London and is a volunteer with Kairos Community Trust. She shares with us this morning her own story of recovery and...

Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, Spy Wednesday of Holy Week
Good morning, as we continue our journey through Holy Week we join Jason O’Reilly of the Kairos Community Trust in London for our prayer today. In each of our lives in this present day we must encourage, sustain and lift one another in the word of God, in simple communication and deed. We also...

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...