Fr. Marcellus Nwaohuocha, a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), was kidnapped on June 17 when gunmen attacked St. Paul Bomo Catholic Parish of Jos Archdiocese where he serves as Parish Priest. In a Sunday, June 18 statement, OMI Superior in Nigeria, Fr. Peter Klaver, says that Fr. Marcellus was taken away after the...

Good morning dear friends, please join with Pauline Thomas on the island of Angelset for our prayer today. Jesus says enter by the narrow gate since the road that leads to perdition, or destruction is wide and spacious and many take it. But it is a narrow gate and a hard road that leads to...

Welcome and thank you once again for joining together today from Morning Prayer, which is coming to you from the OMI Centre of Mission on Anglesey. We join Pauline Thomas and we gather today as members of the Oblate family, as a community of faith and hope, supporting one another in prayer. Perhaps we find...

Good morning and welcome to the Oblate Family Morning Prayer. Today is Sunday 25th of June and it is the 12th Sunday of ordinary time in the church’s calendar. We join Fr Ray once again in De Mazenod House, Tower Hill, in London. What have we got to be thankful for today? What do we...

Good morning and welcome to De Mazenod House Tower Hill where we join Fr Ray Warren OMI for our morning prayer. Today is the solemnity of the birth of John the Baptist. Isn’t it interesting that there is only a few mentioned throughout the year of the church that have their birth honoured as well...

Dear friends, we invite you to join Fr Michael for prayer today. “Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moths and woodworms destroy them and thieves can break in and steal. But store up treasures for yourselves in heaven, where neither moth nor woodworms destroy them and...

Gospel Reflection for Sunday June 25th 2023 When Jesus walked the tracks and trails of Israel the world was a very small place. Travel was difficult and mostly used for trade. Most ‘ordinary’ people could barely read and write. Communication over any distance was by sea and it was slow and unreliable. Scientific knowledge hardly...

Good morning everyone and welcome to De Mazenod House, Tower Hill in London where we join Fr Ray Warren, Director of the De Mazenod House Retreat and Spirituality Centre.   Today is the Feast of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More, martyrs from the English Reformation. They were executed very close to where Fr Ray...

  Good morning friends, today we join Fr Michael Brady OMI for our prayer. We celebrate today the feast of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, who was a young Jesuit dedicated to working with the poorest of the poor during the time of the plague in 1500s Italy. He himself contracted the deadly disease while caring for...

We are very excited to announce that our 37th annual Overland pilgrimage to Lourdes is set to join in the 140th-anniversary celebrations this year. Organiser Patrick Denning, is proud to be able to run the coach trip again this year, allowing pilgrims an alternative route to Lourdes. Although this may be a slightly longer option...