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Join Robert for Morning Prayer on Day 4 of our Virtual Lourdes Pilgrimage
Join Robert Altman for Morning Prayer on Day 4 of our Virtual Lourdes Pilgrimage . Robert has, for the last number of years, been part of the team for the Oblate pilgrimage to Lourdes with the Oblate Youth Service and the students from Belvedere college. He is Chaplain in the college. This morning, he reflects...
Watch Back: Online Pilgrimage Events so far
Watch back all pilgrimage events from our Virtual Lourdes Pilgrimage: Lourdes, Bringing Us Together here on the Oblates website. If you would like to donate to support the pilgrimage, you may do so here: Donate to support the Pilgrimage: If you wish to donate in € Euro, click the button below to donate online on...
Day 3 Online Pilgrimage: Morning Prayer with Frankie MacDonald
Thank you for joining us for our morning reflection and Day 3 of our pilgrimage. Frankie reflects this morning about how we journey to Lourdes has changed over the years, since 138 years ago in 1883, when the Oblate Pilgrimage began. Boat, ship, train, plane. The means of travel has changed so much but the...
Join us for the Holy Rosary and Virtual Torchlight Procession at 7pm
Usually, at this time during our Lourdes Pilgrimage, our pilgrimage group would be joining thousands of others as we embarked on the beautiful and moving torchlight Rosary Procession through the Sanctuary grounds of Our Lady of Lourdes, raising our candles and singing the Ave, and finishing in Rosary square before the Rosary Basilica. It is...
Saturday 10am: Opening Mass of Oblate Virtual Lourdes Pilgrimage
Opening Mass: Celebrant Fr Liam Griffin OMI Thank you for praying with us as we embark on our pilgrimage journey over the next few days. Remember to send your prayer intentions to lourdes@oblates.ie – we will pray for your intentions each day throughout the pilgrimage and, afterwards all intentions will be brought to the...
Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Day 2: Morning Prayer and Reflection
Friends, thank you for joining us for our morning reflection and Day 2 of our pilgrimage. We join Kay Curran, a member of the Lourdes Pilgrimage Team for our reflection. Kay reflects on what Lourdes means to her at the Grotto in Inchicore – how Lourdes and Our Lady helped her deal with difficult times...
Lourdes Virtual Pilgrimage 2021: Opening Service
Our online Lourdes pilgrimage for 2021 , ‘Lourdes: Bringing us Together”, begins with our opening service at 7pm, presented by Kairos Community Trust, a wonderful organisation based in London, dedicated to helping homeless men and women with drug and alcohol problems. Every year, Kairos volunteers are part of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage team, and in...
Morning Prayer: Friday September 17th
Good morning friends, we join Gerard Bennett of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage team for morning prayer. Pilgrimage to Lourdes is a unique and sacred experience. As we start our pilgrimage today, let us pray that this digital pilgrimage will touch lives, as happens in Lourdes at the Grotto. Today’s reading tells us of the women...
Morning Prayer: Thursday September 16th
Good morning friends, we join Irene, a member of the community of Cemaes Bay and Amlwch, on the island of Anglesey, Wales, for our time of prayer and reflection. In the scripture reading, Jesus is in his home town, where he trained as a carpenter. He returned home to preach, but he was not accepted...
Morning Prayer: Wednesday September 15th
Good morning, for our prayer today we go to Olga Slater in London. Today is a very special memorial as we commemorate Our Lady of Sorrows. Jesus is hanging on the cross, looking down on his sorrowful mother. He hands his mother to the care of John, and in turn, John to his mother. This...