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Oblate Family Morning Prayer : Tuesday August 29th
Good morning, everyone. We join Fr Martin for morning prayer on the 29th of August. Today is the Feast of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist and I imagine each of us have various images of Saint John the Baptist. Perhaps we recall those days even before he was born. When he left in...
Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Monday August 28th
Good morning friends, we invite you to join Fr Irvin for this morning’s prayer on Monday August 28th. “Jesus said, ‘Alas for you Scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You will shut up the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces.” Entering the Kingdom of Heaven means responding to the invitation of God who draws us into...
Oblate Family Morning Prayer: August 27th
Dear friends, we invite you to join Fr Irvin in England for morning prayer. Fr Irvin is the director for Oblate Vocations. Our Gospel reading today is an invitation for us to be able to deepen our knowledge and relationship with Christ. In a way, our knowledge of Christ has been shared with us and...
The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Saturday 26th August 2023
Good morning we invite you to join Patsy Thomas from the Isle of Anglesey, for our morning prayer on the 26th of August. Today’s gospel calls us all to take up the mantle as a servant of God. We reflect together on how we ourselves can become more humble and teach people through our actions...
The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Friday 25th August 2023
Good morning we invite you to join Anne Walker from the Friends of St Eugene group in Crewe, for our morning prayer on the 25th of August. Today’s gospel is all about love. We are asked to reflect on how we can impact the lives of our fellow neighbours by following these commandments and sharing...
Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Thursday August 24th
Good morning we invite you to join Rebecca Coyne on the island of Anglesey for our morning prayer on the 24th of August. Today is the feast of Saint Bartholomew. We know a little bit about St Bartholomew’s life: we know that he was one of the Twelve apostles. And we know that he was...
Oblate Family Morning Prayer: August 23rd
Good morning, everyone. We join Caroline for morning prayer on the 23rd of August. We are glad to welcome you all this morning to our time of shared prayer and reflection. In today’s Gospel, we are challenged to be generous as God is generous. This is not always an easy task. And in our humanity,...
Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Tuesday August 22nd
Good morning friends. We join Caroline Shevelan in England for our prayer. Today is the feast day of one of the 40 English Martyrs, Saint John Kemble. John Kemble was a Catholic priest who was born on a farm in Herefordshire, and he went on to serve as an itinerant priest in Monmouthshire for 50...
Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Saturday August 19th
Good morning and welcome to St Mary’s, Star of Sea. We join Trudy Shaw who is a parishioner at St Mary’s, this Saturday 19th of August. “The people answered Joshua, ‘It is the Lord our God we choose to serve; it is his voice that we will obey.’” – Joshua 24:14-29 “But Jesus said, ‘Let...
Fr Gerard Kenny OMI – 1936 – 2023
The funeral mass and celebration of the life of Oblate Fr Gerry Kenny OMI took place on the 2nd of August 2023 at 12-Noon in the Oblate Mary Immaculate Church, Tyrconnell Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8 Gerry Kenny was born in Ballymacward, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway on 27 February 1936. He attended primary school in Arklow, Co....