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Morning Prayer with the Oblates, Thursday June 10th
Fr Terry Murray of Quex Road, Kilburn, leads us in our morning prayer. “You are the salt of the earth and the light of the world, says the Lord.“ The challenge that the Lord sets before is today is for us to try and find concrete ways to be salt and light in the world. ...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates, Wednesday June 9th, Feast of Saint Columba
We join Pádraigín for our morning prayer. Today is the feast day of Saint Columcille also known as Saint Columba, a patron saint of Ireland, who founded the great abbey on the Island of Iona and is known for a being a missionary of the Good News to the people of Scotland. Our prayer today...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates, Tuesday June 8th
Jesus challenges us to be salt and light. Do we think of ourselves as salt and light? Do we know that about ourselves. Jesus knows that about us. Jesus thinks that about us, he even says that about us. This means we are here to flavour the world through kindness and acknowledging everyone as having...
Morning Prayer with Sr Anne , Monday June 7th – The Beatitudes
Dear friends thank you for joining the Oblate family today for our daily morning reflection and prayer video. Today we hear from Sr Anne in London, who speaks about the Beatitudes; the eight blessings recounted by Jesus during His sermon on the mount, near the Sea of Galilee from the Gospel of Matthew. Her reflection...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates, Sunday June 6th, Feast of Corpus Christi
Dear friends, this Sunday we celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi, the body and blood of Jesus, present in the bread and wine. We join Padraig this morning for our time of prayer and reflection. This year, during this year of restrictions and fasting from the eucharist, perhaps we have a deeper appreciation for the...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates, Saturday June 5th
Dear friends, we join Fr Dermot once more in Saint Michael’s Parish, Inchicore this morning for our daily prayer. Today’s reflection focuses on the different types of voices we hear in our daily lives, telling us many different things, all of which have a deep influence on us and how we respond to what we...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates, Friday June 4th
This morning we join Fr Dermot Mills OMI in St Michael’s Parish, Inchicore in Dublin. Fr Dermot in our reflection this morning shares an experience of how he realised how we both have to try to both listen to the word of God and to live it, in our daily lives – to learn it...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates, Thursday June 3rd
This morning we join Padraig Corcoran in Dublin. Padraig is an Oblate youth Worker and part of the Partners in Mission Team. Today is also feast day of Saint Kevin, an abbot of Glendalough in the archdiocese of Dublin and as part of our reflection, we hear the poem “St Kevin and the Blackbird” by...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates, Wednesday June 2nd
In our reflection this morning, Wednesday June 2nd, we are joined by Angela McCullough who leads us in our time of prayer. Angela works with the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage as a volunteer with the Kairos Community Trust, a London-based organisation who help people recover from homelessness and addiction. In today’s reading we hear about the...