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Morning Reflection with the Oblates: Friday November 12th
Friends, we join Mary Tyrell for our short morning prayer and reflection. Mary is a member of the Oblate Partners in Mission team and is based in England. “Anyone who tries to preserve his life will lose it; and anyone who loses it will keep it.” From Luke 17:26-3 The stories of Noah, the Flood,...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Thursday November 11th
Good morning friends, please join Fr Eduardo in the Oblate mission of Darndale-Belcamp, North Dublin, for our prayer together today on Thursday November 11th. Your word, O Lord, for ever stands firm in the heavens: your truth lasts from age to age, like the earth you created. – Psalm 118 We pray for all our...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Wednesday November 10th
Good morning friends, we invite you to join us for a short morning reflection. Today we join with Gerard Bissett in Dublin. Like the other nine in today’s gospel, perhaps many of us too forget to give thanks to God for all the good things in our lives, a roof over our heads, fresh water...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Tuesday November 9th
Good morning friends, please join with Gerard Bissett in Dublin for our morning prayer. In today’s gospel reading, Jesus casts out the money changers from the temple. We consider what relevance this passage of scripture might have for us in our own lives today. But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body,...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Monday November 8th
Good morning friends, please join Fr Eduardo in the Oblate mission of Darndale-Belcamp, North Dublin, for our prayer together today. O Lord, you search me and you know me, you know my resting and my rising, you discern my purpose from afar. You mark when I walk or lie down, all my ways lie open...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Sunday November 7th
Good morning friends, please join Fr Eduardo in the Oblate mission of Darndale-Belcamp, North Dublin, for our prayer together today. A poor widow came and put in two small coins, the equivalent of a penny. Then he called his disciples and said to them, ‘I tell you solemnly, this poor widow has put more in...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Saturday November 6th
Good morning, we join Fr Liam Griffin OMI once again for our prayer. We are here in the Oblate Cemetery, Inchicore, Dublin on the Feast of All Saints of Ireland. Those who lie here can certainly be included among that Communion of Saints. Today, we will gather as an Oblate Province for our annual remembrance...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Friday November 5th
Good morning. We join Liam Griffin, an Oblate of Mary Immaculate and a member of the Provincial Administration, in Inchicore for our time of prayer at the beginning of this November day as we gather from far and wide. Let us begin this time together by bringing ourselves into the presence of God as we...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Thursday November 4th
We join Lynn Kyei Poakwah, a member of the Oblate Parish of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in West Kilburn, for morning prayer today. Today’s gospel is the well-known image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd. He alone is the only Good Shepherd who is willing to die for those who put their faith in...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Wednesday November 3rd
We join Lynn Kyei Poakwah, a member of the Oblate Parish of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in West Kilburn for morning prayer today. Today’s gospel teaches us about the cost of discipleship. Do we try and make Jesus first and foremost in our lives? Jesus wants us to care deeply about our family, friends...