Morning Reflection with Sinéad Hanafin Peg Hanafin, author and poet, was an assisted pilgrim who travelled to Lourdes with us for many years. Peg sadly went home to God this summer and her daughter, Sinéad, presents a reflection Peg had prepared especially for this Virtual Pilgrimage. Please continue your prayers and petitions to lourdes@oblates.ie – we...

Beginning at the Grotto in Inchicore join us for the Rosary with decades prayed by members of the Oblate family from Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales and the island of Jersey.   Send your prayers and petitions to lourdes@oblates.ie – we are praying with you and for you over these next few days!   #bringinglourdeshome #alwaysclosetothepeople...

We invite you to join us for today’s mass, Sunday 20th September, the 25th Sunday in ordinary time, and the opening mass of our virtual pilgrimage.   With thanks to Kairos Communications for their help in recording this very special mass at the Grotto. Thank you to all you helped us prepare and contributed to...

Bishop Field is a former barrister, a member of the first successful Irish expedition to Mount Everest in 1993, and also served as a prison chaplain and head chaplain of the Defence Forces. In September 1997 he was appointed Titular Bishop of Ard Mór and Auxiliary bishop of Dublin. He has accompanied the Oblate Pilgrimage...

Join the Oblate Youth Service, who serve our assisted pilgrims so wonderfully each year in Lourdes, in the Oblate parish of Saint Michael’s, Inchicore as we begin our Virtual Pilgrimage together with a time of Taizé prayer and song before the Cross. Our pilgrimage candle is lit in Lourdes by Mons Xavier d’Adrodes & Laura...

Join Gerard Bennett from the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage team for our morning prayer. Please join with us later today as we begin our virtual pilgrimage. “If I, then, the Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you must wash each other’s feet. I have given you an example so that you may copy what I...

Join Mary Tyrell for today’s reflection. Today’s gospel mentions the silent contribution women made to the ministry of Jesus and it reminds us all of those quiet disciples, men and women, whose lives, prayers and pennies have contributed to the church throughout the ages.  “Jesus made his way through towns and villages preaching, and proclaiming...

Join Pádraig Corcoran, Oblate Youth Worker, for our reflection to begin today at 8.30am. ‘Who is this man, that he even forgives sins?’ But he said to the woman, ‘Your faith has saved you; go in peace.’ – Luke 7:36-50

Join Fr Frank Ryan OMI in St Joseph’s, Colwyn Bay for our morning reflection on this the feast day of Saint Cornelius and Saint Cyprian, two christian martyrs of the early church. “But as we have the same spirit of faith that is mentioned in scripture – I believed, and therefore I spoke – we...

Today, September 15th, is the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows – join Fr Frank Ryan OMI in St Joseph’s Colwyn Bay for a short reflection this morning. “Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that moment the disciple made...