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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Good morning, for our prayer today we go to Olga Slater in London on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. On this very special feast day, we are reminded in our readings of the extremes that God has gone to to keep reaching out to us. God never gives up on us....

The Exaltation of the Cross   Today in union with the whole Church we celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. The cross is central to our faith as followers of Jesus. It is through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus that that we are saved and forgiven. It is through his...