Friends, we join Chaher Rhomaei who is in De Mazenod House Retreat and Spirituality Centre in Tower Hill, London.  Today we join Chaher in reflecting on the first reading of today’s mass through art. Today is also the Feast day of Saint Bonaventure. We listen to the reading from Isaiah 38 where the Lord hears...

Good morning everyone, today we join Caroline in Cumbria for our time of morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Matthew. “Come to me, all you that are weary and carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.” With a lot going on in the world, it feels like times are uncertain....

Good morning everyone, today we join Caroline in Cumbria for our time of morning prayer, and where she also reflects on some of the beautiful imagery that we read in the Gospel reading from today’s mass. “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and...

The late South African Archbishop, and social justice and anti-apartheid campaigner, Denis Hurley of the Order of Mary Immaculate or OMI (1915-2004) was archbishop of Durban from 1951 until 1992. Born in Cape Town to Irish emigrant parents, he spent his early years on Robben Island – site of the jail in which Nelson Mandela...

Dear friends, good morning and thank you for joining us for morning prayer. Today, Ros Appleby of Birkenhead, England, leads our morning prayer.   Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Matthew. It talks about how Jesus reproached those people in the towns that he had already preached in, who had failed to listen to...

Dear friends, good morning and thank you for joining us for morning prayer. Today, on the Feast of Saint Benedict, Ros Appleby of Birkenhead, England, leads our morning prayer. Ros dedicates today’s prayer time for all young people setting out on the path of life. May we cherish the young men and women growing up...

Dear friends let us join Fr Liam Griffin OMI, Oblate Provincial Administration, for this Sunday’s prayer this morning. ‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbour as yourself.’ – Luke 10:25-37 Jesus asks that we care...

Dear friends, today, Saturday July 9th, marks the annual Oblate Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine, County Mayo in Ireland. Fr Liam Griffin OMI of the Oblate Provincial Administration, will be presiding over the pilgrimage mass at 3pm and he leads us in our prayer this morning. Perhaps we can join them in spirit today and reflect...

Dear friends, good morning and thank you for joining us for morning prayer. Kirk Jacob, who is member of the Oblate Partners in Mission Team, and is based in West Kilburn, London, leads us in our prayer again this morning. “Do not worry about how to speak or what to say; what you are to...

Dear friends, good morning and thank you for joining us for morning prayer. Today, Kirk Jacob in West Kilburn, London leads our morning prayer. “Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘As you go, proclaim that the kingdom of God is close at hand.” – Gospel of Matthew The message of Jesus to you and me...