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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...

Oblate Morning Prayer, Monday January 24th
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...

Oblate Morning Prayer, Saturday January 23rd
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....

Oblate Morning Prayer, Saturday January 22nd
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...

Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, Friday January 21st
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...

Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, Thursday January 20th
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...

Oblate Morning Prayer, Wednesday January 19th
We join Kirk Jacob for morning prayer on this Wednesday of Week Two of Ordinary Time. Kirk is a member of the Partners in Mission team, and is based in West Kilburn. Jesus went into a synagogue, and there was a man there who had a withered hand. And they were watching him to see...

Oblate Morning Prayer, Tuesday January 18th
Good morning, we join Pat Hughes who is a member of the Friends of Saint Eugene Group in Rockferry, Merseyside, England. “And Jesus concluded, “The Sabbath was made for the good of human beings; they were not made for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” – Mark 2:23-28...