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Building Bonds: Insights from the Recent Major Superiors’ Gathering
Article is taken from, Cor Unum – OMI World The recently concluded Orientation Session for Major Superiors, held from June 7 to 22, 2024, offered an invaluable opportunity to meet the servant leaders of various Oblate units in person. This session allowed me to connect faces to the names I had previously known only through...

The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Wednesday 26th June 2024
Today, we invite you to join with Patsy Thomas in her home in Beaumaris on the island of Anglesey for our time of prayer today on June 26th. Gospel | Matthew 7:15-20 “You will be able to tell them by their fruits” Patsy reflects on today’s gospel reading: “How often have we heard, “Don’t judge...

The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Tuesday 25th June 2024
Today, we invite you to join with Patsy Thomas in her home in Beaumaris on the island of Anglesey for our time of prayer today on June 25th. Gospel | Matthew 7:6,12-14 “Treat others as you would like them to treat you” Patsy reflects on today’s gospel reading: “Jesus speaks of two ways between which...

The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Monday 24th June 2024
Today, we invite you to join Kirk Jacob, director of MAMI UK, for our morning prayer once again from Kilburn, London. Gospel | Luke 1:57-66,80 ‘His name is John’ Kirk reflects on today’s gospel reading: “‘Now I wonder what the good folk in the hill countryside where Zachariah and Elizabeth had lived, what did they...
The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Sunday 23rd June 2024
Today, we invite you to join Kirk Jacob, director of MAMI UK, for our morning prayer from Denis Hurley House, Quex Road, Kilburn. Gospel | Mark 4:35-41 ‘Even the wind and the sea obey him’ Kirk reflects on today’s gospel reading: “‘Think about what’s going on in your life and the storms in your life....

The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Saturday 21st June 2024
Today, we invite you to join Mary Tyrrell for our morning prayer from her home on the Wirral, England on Saturday June 22nd. Gospel | Matthew 6:24-34 “Do not worry about tomorrow: your holy Father knows your needs” Mary reflects on today’s gospel reading: “‘This gospel could have been written for today when we know...

Gospel Reflection for Sunday June 23rd 2024 – 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel Reflection for Sunday June 23rd 2024, 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time | Mark 4:35-41 Anyone who has ever done an ‘individually guided retreat’ (IGR) in the Ignatian tradition will almost certainly have spent time in prayer with this week’s Gospel. The ‘Storm at Sea’ is one of those Gospel stories which is so rich...

The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Friday 21st June 2024
Today, we invite you to join Mary Tyrrell for our morning prayer from her home on the Wirral, England. Gospel | Matthew 6:19-23″Store up treasure for yourselves in heaven” Mary reflects on today’s gospel reading: “‘For where your treasure is, there your heart will also be’ – what we consider valuable shows us where our...

Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: Thursday 20th June
Dear friends, good morning. For today’s morning reflection we join Fr Tom McCabe OMI in Inchicore. The Our Father is a God-centred prayer, as is all prayer, one that most of us are so familiar with. Join Fr Tom in reflecting on the Lord’s Prayer. Jesus said to his disciples: ‘In your prayers do not...

Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: Wednesday 19th June
Friends, we join Olga Slater in London for our morning prayer today, Wednesday June 19th 2024. Gospel | Matthew 6:1-6,16-18 © “Your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you” Olga reflects: “A challenging gospel today – it is almost a reminder about self re-examining oursleves – like a spiritual checklist...