Good morning. We join Frankie MacDonald, a member of the Oblate Lourdes Hospitalité, in Scotland for our daily few moments of prayer and reflection on Friday, 23nd August 2024, in the 20th Week of Ordinary Time. Gospel | Matthew 22:34-40 © The commandments of love Frankie reflects: “Today’s reflection is focuses on the qualities one...

Good morning. We join Mary Ryan from the Sacred Heart Parish in London on Thursday, 22nd August 2024, in the 20th Week of Ordinary Time. Gospel Luke 1:26-38 ‘I am the handmaid of the Lord’ Mary reflects: “A momentous event, as the poet Mary Oliver says, calling it the Annunciation doesn’t really capture the enormity of...

Good morning. We join Mary Ryan from the Sacred Heart Parish in London on Wednesday, 21st August 2024, in the 20th Week of Ordinary Time. Gospel John 21:15-17 Feed my lambs, feed my sheep   Mary reflects: “This was Peter’s commissioning to take on the huge responsibility and gift to make known that Jesus is the Christ,...

We in the Oblate Community regret to announce the death of Fr. Peter Paul Daly O.M.I. (Oblate Community, House of Retreat, Inchicore, Dublin 8 & Castlequarter, Ballybrophy, Portlaoise, Co. Laois). Peter died peacefully on August 20th, 2024, in his 93rd year, in the loving care of the Palliative Care Staff, St. James’s Hospital. Beloved son...

Good morning. We join Joe O’Connell in Crewe, England on Tuesday, 20th August 2024, in the 20th Week of Ordinary Time. Gospel Matthew 19:23-30 It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Joe reflects: “Jesus gives them that...

Good morning dear friends. We join Joe O’Connell in Crewe, England on Monday, 19th August 2024, in the 20th Week of Ordinary Time. Gospel | Matthew 19:16-22 © If you wish to be perfect, go and sell what you own Joe reflects: “Jesus directs the young man to the commandments. In essence, the young man...

Good morning dear friends. We join Caroline Shevelan from West Cumbria, England on Sunday, 18th August 2024, in the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Second reading | Ephesians 5:15-20 Be filled not with wine, but with the Spirit Caroline reflects: “The readings for this Sunday begin by speaking about wisdom, about leaving foolishness behind and...

Today, we join Rebecca Roughneen from the Oblate Communications team at Knock Shrine today for Feast day of Our Lady of Knock, Saturday August 17th 2024. Knock is Ireland’s International Eucharistic & Marian Shrine Knock. On the 21st of August in 1879, 15 people from the village witnessed an apparition of Mary on the gable...

Good morning dear friends. We join Susan Varghese from the Oblate Parish of Darndale-Belcamp in Dublin on Friday, 16th August 2024, in the 19th Week of Ordinary Time. Gospel | Matthew 19:3-12 Husband and wife are no longer two, but one body Susan reflects: “There was an opposing view which proposed that only the most...

August 15: “We shall always look on her as our Mother” Published on Thursday 15 August 2024 at www.omiworld.org This Solemnity holds immense significance in the life of the Church, particularly for us Oblates, as she is our Mother in a unique and special way. As an Oblate, I have always regarded her as my...