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Upcoming Oblate Advent Events for your diary
Please see below for details of various events for Advent from around the Oblate province of Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. Monday Evenings 7-8pm : Unmute! Advent Talks – Oblate Mission with Youth (Online) Click here for more information – weekly Zoom meetings of sharing, discussion, friendship and faith for young people. Tuesday Mornings 10.30am...

Morning Prayer, Feast of Christ the King , Sunday November 21st
Friends, on the feast of Christ the King and the final Sunday of the church year, please join with Fr Tom McCabe OMI of the Oblate Mission Development Office, for our morning prayer together. Pilate said, ‘So, then you are a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘You say that I am a king, I was born for...

Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: November 20th
Good morning friends. We join Kirk Jacob once more in London for our morning prayer. On this day in 1993, Ovide Charlebois OMI died at La Pas, Canada. Born in Quebec, He was a missionary who spent his life reaching out and bringing the gospel message to those in remote regions often travelling thousands of...

Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: November 19th:
Friends, we join Kirk Jacob in London for our morning prayer. Visualising the temple, Kirk reflects on the feisty and enraged Jesus, noticing the money changers and sellers exploiting the poor in the temple, and going into full confrontation with temple leaders, some of whom were scandalised by what Jesus said… Jesus went into the...

Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: November 18th
Friends, you are invited to join us for our Oblate Family morning prayer, today we join with Theresa once more for our prayer on Thursday 18th of November. Jesus is heartbroken over the faith of the inhabitants of Jerusalem and over their unwillingness to embrace his kingdom message of peace. What things break your heart?...

Morning Reflection with the Oblates: November 17th:
Friends, you are invited to join us for our Oblate Family morning prayer with Theresa Codd in England. “While the people were listening, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and they imagined that the kingdom of God was going to show itself then and there.” Luke 19:11-2 Jesus in...

Morning Reflection with the Oblates: Tuesday November 16th
Friends, you are invited to join us for our Oblate Family morning prayer with Caroline Shevelan in England. We reflect on the familiar gospel story of the meeting of Jesus and Zacchaeus. “When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.”...

Morning Reflection with the Oblates: Monday November 15th
Friends, you are invited to join us for our Oblate Family morning prayer with Caroline Shevelan in England. Take time this morning to participate in an immersive reflection on the important message of today’s gospel and ask yourself the same question Jesus asked of the blind man “what is you want me to do for...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Sunday November 14th
Dear friends, you are invited to join us for our Oblate Family morning prayer with Christine Hunt in Holyhead, Anglesey. We live in anxious times. Many of us are anxious about viruses, variants, climate change and ageing. Jesus lived during an anxious time too. This Sunday’s gospel is a complex tapestry. Jesus’ lifeline was his...

Morning Reflection with the Oblates: Saturday November 13th
You are invited to join us for our Oblate Family morning prayer today, November 13th. And the Lord said ‘You notice what the unjust judge has to say? Now will not God see justice done to his chosen who cry to him day and night even when he delays to help them? I promise you,...