Dear friends, we join Tom McCabe OMI, an Oblate of Mary Immaculate; and who works at our Mission Development Office in Dublin, from where we support the community projects and other missionary work of Oblates in many poor countries. As we listen to God’s word for today from Saint Matthew’s gospel, we can recognize that...

Dear friends, good morning. For today’s morning reflection we join Fr Tom McCabe OMI in Inchicore.  The Our Father is a God-centred prayer, as is all prayer, one that most of us are so familiar with. Join Fr Tom in reflecting on the Lord’s Prayer. Jesus said to his disciples: ‘In your prayers do not...

Friends, we join Olga Slater in London once again for our morning prayer. “So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets so that they may be praised by others.“ Another challenging gospel today – it is almost a reminder about...

Bernie Colgan OMI celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday in Rio De Janeiro Brazil 🇧🇷 where he has been a Missionary all his life.   There was a Mass to celebrate the date and his more than 40 years of service to the diocese of Duque de Caxias in the state of Rio de Janeiro....

Friends, we join Olga Slater in London for morning prayer. Today, Olga reads the passage of the gospel in which Jesus offers an extremely – maybe impossible(!) – challenge to his disciples and also to us in these times: that we must “love our enemies” and be “perfect” like God… Many such people do succeed...

Dear friends, we join Margaret Hughes, a member of the Oblate Parish Community of Darndale-Belcamp and principal of Darndale Junior School, for today’s morning prayer. Today’s reading is the encounter of Jesus and the woman at the well. Jesus displays respect for the woman at the well, despite her history and being a Samaritan, demonstrating...

“Living as Oblate People” Published on Thursday 19 May 2022 (with thanks to www.omiworld.org for providing us with this information)  2nd Oblate Lay Associations Congress (2OLAC) Recommended by the 2016 General Chapter, it is now nearly 3 years since 2OLAC was officially launched at the 2019 Interchapter in Obra, Poland. Even with the COVID situation that forced...

Good morning everyone, today is Trinity Sunday and we join Pádraig Corcoran for morning prayer. On this day we reflect on hoe we remember the Trinity each time we make the sign of the Cross – In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit – and we think...

Good morning everyone! Today, we join Fr Eduardo Nunez OMI, from the Oblate parish of Darndale-Belcamp, for the Oblate Family Morning Prayer on Saturday June 11th. Today’s Gospel reading is from Matthew 10. Fr Eduardo reflects that Jesus wants us to be free of calculation, to be open and share, inviting us to give, offer...

Dear friends, we join Aoife Breen, of Our Lady Immaculate school, Darndale, for today’s morning prayer. Today’s reading is from 1 Kings 19, which continues the story with Elijah, “The Lord said to him, ‘Go take the road back to the desert near Damascus. When you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael as king of Aram....