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The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Thursday 31st August 2023
Dear friends you are very welcome to our time of prayer together this morning, on the last day of August and the closing of the summer season. We join Mary Ryan from the Sacred Heart parish in Kilburn, for a reflective time of prayer. We keep in our mind those we may know need our...

Oblate Family Morning Prayer: August 30th
Dear friends you are very welcome to our time of prayer together this morning, to pray together, to praise God, and to share our faith. We join Joanne in the beautiful gardens at the House of Retreat, Inchicore, for a reflective time of prayer. We pray for all those who are returning to school. The...

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...