Good morning. We invite you to join our Oblate Family Morning Prayer. We join Mary O’Brien in Dublin for today’s time of prayer on Saturday, January 27th 2024. During today’s Gospel, Jesus asks, “Why are you afraid?”  So, as we reflect together, we must try to let go of the doubts and fears that can overtake...

Good morning. We invite you to join our Oblate Family Morning Prayer. We join Fr Tom McCabe OMI in Inchicore for today’s time of prayer on Friday, January 26th 2024. On this day when we remember Saints Timothy and Titus. Paul’s converts and fellow missionaries and like Paul, Timothy and Titus did not spare themselves....

The appointment of Lorcan O’Reilly OMI as the next Provincial of the Anglo-Irish Province has just been announced.  We congratulate Lorcan and thank him for accepting this responsibility. We also assure him of our prayer and support. He will take office during the Provincial Assembly in June. His Council will be named in May. Oliver...

Good morning. We invite you to join our Oblate Family Morning Prayer. We join Fr Tom McCabe OMI in Inchicore for today’s time of prayer on the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul. Paul was adequately educated and at home in his Greco-Roman culture and in Jewish tradition. Conversion changed all of that. His...

Good morning. We invite you to join our Oblate Family Morning Prayer. We join Rebecca Coyne in Anglesey for today’s time of prayer on the feast of Saint Francis de Sales. Mark 4:1-20 ‘The parable of the sower.’ In today’s gospel, Jesus calls us to really listen to the Word of God, to be open, to receive...

Good morning. We invite you to join our Oblate Family Morning Prayer. We join Rebecca Coyne in Anglesey for today’s time of prayer. “Who are my mother and my brothers? Those that do the will of God” This statement begs the question. What does doing the will of God look like?  The readings at Mass over...

In 2024, the Oblate Family take on the theme ‘Ministers of Hope’. We recognise that each one of us is called to be witnesses of hope in communion. But to be missionaries of hope, we first must live it ourselves and then share it with everyone, with no exceptions. Teaching the way of hope as...

Good morning, dear friends. You are very welcome to our Oblate Family Morning Prayer. We join Ros Appleby in Birkenhead for today’s time of prayer. “A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand” Today’s gospel may be a bit hard to fathom. How often do we say United we stand, divided we fall? But how often...

21st January 2024 IV Sunday in Ordinary Time, B “Kairos – Time of Grace” “Brothers and sisters, our ‘kairos’ is growing short,” states St Paul in the Second Reading. Kairos is an opportune moment, Kairos is the best time to do something, the best moment for something to happen. Kairos is a fitting situation, a...

Good morning, dear friends. You are very welcome to our Oblate Family Morning Prayer. We join Ros in Birkenhead for today’s time of prayer. ‘The time has come’ he said ‘and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the Good News.’ If the Kingdom of Heaven is close at hand in...