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Oblate Morning Prayer, Tuesday February 1st
Friends, we join Kay Curran in Dublin for morning prayer. Kay a member of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage family. Today is the feast day of St. Brigid of Kildare Ireland, also known as St. Brigid of the Gaels. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is...
Oblate Morning Prayer, Monday January 31st
We join the Tina Doherty who is a parishioner in the Oblate Parish of St Mary’s Star of the Sea in Leith Scotland for our Morning Prayer today. Let us pray together to Jesus for all those who need healing in mind or body today or who are struggling in any way. Catching sight of...
Oblate Morning Prayer, Sunday January 30th
Good morning friends. We join Veronica Halloran in the Oblate Parish of St Mary’s Star of the Sea in Leith Scotland for our Morning Prayer. Jesus saw the need to spread the Good News to those outside his home town. In the same way, we have many missionaries often working far from their own homeland...
Oblate Morning Prayer, Saturday January 29th
We join the Sanchez Family of the Couples for Christ Community in Scotland for our Morning Prayer. (Ronaldo has to do his recording separately as he is self-isolating). We continue to pray for healing of all who are sick and for the safety and well-being of everyone. Thank you for joining us this morning. Image...
Oblate Morning Prayer, Friday January 28th
Good morning, we invite you to join Yanie Geraldez, Channaia Luz and Kristal Remigio and Jude Cannéte all of whom are part of the Youth of El Shaddai, a catholic charismatic organisation for young people in the UK for our morning prayer. “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will...
Oblate Morning Prayer, Thursday January 27th
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...
Novena To Our Lady of Lourdes February 2-11 2022
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,...
Oblate Morning Prayer, Wednesday January 26th
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...
206 ago today: the first day of Mazenodian Community Life
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...
Oblate Morning Prayer, Tuesday January 25th
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...