Today, we invite you to join Pat Hughes once again for our morning prayer from her home in Birkenhead, England. Pat is a member of the Friends of Saint Eugene. Gospel | Matthew 5:43-48 “Pray for those who persecute you” Pat reflects on today’s gospel reading: “Following on from yesterday, when Jesus asked us to...

– by Sr Catherine Lavery Sr Hilary recently celebrated her 103rd birthday and 85 years as a Religious Sister of Holy Family of Bordeaux currently living in Rock Ferry, Birkenhead. Sr Hilary is originally from Listowel Co. Kerry. She came to Kilburn, London from Kerry in 1939 during war time.  She trained as a Social...

Today, we invite you to join Pat Hughes, a member of the Friends of Saint Eugene, for our morning prayer from her home in Birkenhead, England. Gospel | Matthew 5:38-42 “Offer the wicked man no resistance” Pat reflects on today’s gospel reading: “An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth.” It sounds very...

Today, we invite you to join Mary O’Brien and Mary Whelan, members of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team, once again for our morning prayer. Gospel | Matthew 5:33-37 “Do not swear: say ‘Yes’ if you mean Yes, ‘No’ if you mean No” Mary reflects on today’s gospel reading: and reads a poem by Patrick Kavanagh,...

Today, we invite you to join Mary O’Brien and Mary Whelan, members of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team, for our morning prayer today. Gospel | Matthew 5:27-32 “If your right eye should cause you to sin, tear it out” Mary reflects on today’s gospel reading: “These texts, which refer to the law at the time...

Today, we invite you to join Christine Hunt for our morning prayer from her home on Anglesey. Gospel Matthew 5:20-26 Anyone who is angry with his brother will answer for it Christine Hunt reflects on today’s gospel reading: “Jesus was saying that his listeners needed a different kind of righteousness altogether out of the love...

Today, we invite you to join Christine Hunt for our morning prayer from her home on Anglesey. Gospel Matthew 5:17-19 I have not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets but to complete them Christine Hunt reflects on today’s gospel reading: “In building upon the law, Jesus reveals his teaching the heart of God...

On Sunday 9 June, the 10.00am Mass in St John Ogilvie’s was offered in thanksgiving for the work of the Oblates, who have faithfully served the parish of St John Ogilvie’s in Wester Hailes since 1980. Fr. Oliver Barry OMI, Oblate Provincial, led the celebration, with Fr Boguslav, the current parish priest of Wester Hailes....

Dear friends, today we invite you to join Ciarán Leonard, a member of the Oblate Family, for our morning prayer from his home in Central Brazil again this morning. Gospel | Matthew 5:1-12 How happy are the poor in spirit Ciaran reflects on today’s gospel reading: “They’re very strong words that Matthew uses in his...

Dear friends, today we invite you to join Ciarán Leonard, a member of the Oblate Family, for our morning prayer from his home in Brazil Gospel | Mark 3:20-35 A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand Ciaran reflects on today’s gospel reading: “You might say today’s gospel is kind of a strange one, because what...