Good morning, everyone! Today, we join Christine Hunt from Holyhead for our morning prayer together.   Today’s Gospel reading is from Matthew, and focuses on when Jesus walked on the water of the Sea of Galilee during a storm. Peter was able to walk on the water too for a moment, before becoming frightened and...

The 37th General Chapter of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate will be held in Nemi, Italy, from September 14 to October 14, 2022 The general chapter of a religious community or congregation is the largest decision-making gathering of representatives of a community from its various locations around the globe. In our case, representatives from...

Good morning, everyone! Today, we join Christine Hunt from Holyhead for our morning prayer together. Today’s Gospel reading is of the feeding of the 5,000. Sometimes we feel as though we have little to offer, or that we cannot make an impact in this world. But, in fact, we can do great things with the...

Good morning, everyone! Today, we join Mary O’Brien of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team for our morning prayer together. Today’s Gospel reading is from Luke. It is focused on the parable of the rich man who had a good harvest and wanted to store it all and live an easy life. But God rebukes him,...

Good morning, everyone! Today, we join Mary O’Brien of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team for our morning prayer together.   Rescue us, Lord, out of the mire; may we not sink. Let not the floodwaters overwhelm us, nor the abyss swallow us up. Let your saving help, Lord, protect us. We will praise your name...

Good morning – today we join Mary Tyrrell of the Oblate Partners in Mission team once more for our morning prayer together. Today is the Feast of Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Today’s gospel creates a familiar scene – a family gathering together during a time of great sadness. Mary shares a time where she...

No more shouting David Wells is a well-known speaker in Catholic circles, having been all around the world giving inspiring talks to groups large and small, and we were recently blessed to have him at our retreat centre in Crewe. This July, a group of 20 of us took part in a retreat on the...

Good morning – today we join Mary Tyrrell of the Oblate Partners in Mission team for our morning prayer together. Clay being formed by the hands of a the potter is an image often repeated about in the bible when the writer wants to talk about the relationship between God and God’s people. The potter...

Good morning – Maidin maith! We join Teresa Gallagher once more for today’s prayer. Teresa is a native of Letterkenny, Co Donegal, Ireland.  In these times, many of us are in a frenzied mode at work, at home and in society. This is in no way taking from the huge sacrifices people make for family friends and...

Many years planning and preparation went into the organisation of OLAC 2022 – bringing together all those people connected to the Oblate family around the world to share how we live as “Oblate People”. At a global level, three live-streamed online session were broadcast from the Oblate General House in Rome which hosted fantastic presentations...