Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Prayer with the Oblate family! Today’s video comes to you from Fr Irvin Morastil, who recently moved from Edinburgh to London. Today is the fourth Sunday of Advent. The reading for this day comes from Gospel of Matthew, and is about how Jesus Christ came to be born....

Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Prayer with the Oblate family! Today’s video comes to you from Fr Irvin Morastil, who recently moved from Edinburgh to London. Today’s Gospel reading is from the book of Matthew, and recounts the genealogy of Jesus. Just like Jesus, we, too, are the product of our own genealogy....

We invite you to join Ena Loakman for today’s morning prayer. Ena lives in Newbridge, Co. Kildare and she has been travelling to Lourdes with the Oblate Pilgrimage for the past 43 years. Ena shares her own personal story about how she first came to travel to Lourdes back in 1978, after deciding to make...

Friends we join Fr Liam once more for our Oblate Family morning prayer from Inchicore on Thursday December 15th, the third week of Advent. Jesus says that John was more than a prophet and gives him the highest of praise, but he then makes him most and most amazing declaration that at least in the...

Friends, good morning. We join Fr Liam Griffin OMI in the Oblate Community Chapel, Inchicore for our prayer. John the Baptist is a one of the central figures of the Gospel during Advent. In today’s reading, we see John was in prison and has perhaps begun to doubt who Jesus really was. The one who...

Good morning friends, we join Frankie MacDonald, a member of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage team, in Scotland for today’s time of prayer and reflection together. “Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people, ‘What is your opinion? A man had two sons. He went and said to the first, “My boy, you...

Good morning friends, we join Frankie MacDonald in Scotland for today’s time of prayer and reflection together. The chief priests in today’s gospel had lost sight of the good that Jesus was doing. They were so caught up in their own importance that they failed to see the good under their very noses. Jesus challenges...

We join Fr Dominik Domagala in St Michael’s Oblate Parish, Inchicore on the 3rd Sunday of Advent, December 11th. Rejoice in the Lord! ‘Look, I am going to send my messenger before you; he will prepare your way before you. ‘I tell you solemnly, of all the children born of women, a greater than John...

Good morning today we join Mona Brady, a member of the Legion of Mary in Dublin for our Morning Prayer for December 10th. In the season of Advent, this gospel reminds us that we too have the indwelling Holy Spirit within us. Even though we may feel we are living in difficult times, the indwelling...

Jesus was born outside of the city, outside of a hospital, outside of a normal house. The Gospels tell us he was born in a stable, outside the city because there was no room for them in the inn. We have always vilified the infamous innkeeper who turned Mary and Joseph away, and the lesson...