Good morning everyone – thank you for joining this morning’s daily prayer and reflection. Today we join Jane Barnes, a parishioner at the Oblate Parish of Saint Joseph’s Colwyn Bay in North Wales. In this gospel story we see crowds of sick people hoping to be cured. It would have been a familiar sight to...

Good morning friends, we join Mary Bond in St Joseph’s Parish, Colwyn Bay in North Wales, who reflects on Psalm 29: “I will praise you, Lord, you have rescued me”. We need to have deep faith that Jesus is with us every step of the way, despite all the personal and social challenges we face...

Some photographs from the Sunday Mass on Mother’s Day or Mothering Sunday in the Oblate Parish of Sacred Heart, Quex Road in Kilburn, London. There were over 300 families present in the church which was full to capacity. During the mass, the RCIA* (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults ) group received the bible before...

Good morning friends, we join Frank Bond in St Joseph’s Parish, Colwyn Bay in North Wales. “You are with me always and all that I have is yours” – the words of God, our Father to all of us, which Jesus relays to us in the parable of the Prodigal Son one which most of...

Dear friends, good morning! Please join Mary O’Brien, a member of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team for our Oblate family morning prayer today. Today’s scripture is a well known parable – the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. We could have an instinct to cast the Pharisee as a sinner and the tax collector as a...

Recently the community and parish in Kilburn have undertaken wonderful work in supporting the people of Ukraine who have been affected by the violence of the war with Russia or who have been displaced, forced to leave their homes and flee. With the support of Cardinal Newman College the Kilburn Community loaded a mini bus...

Dear friends, good morning, on this feast day of the Annunciation we invite you to join Mary O’Brien, a member of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team for our morning prayer. As the first disciple of Christ, Mary shows us by her example that we must listen to and do God’s will. Living with a heart...

Today, Friday 25 March, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, Pope Francis will lead a ceremony of prayer in Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, to consecrate and entrust Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Let us join the Holy Father in prayer as we pray for peace and end to violence. 
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Good morning! Today we invite you to join June Craig, a member of the Oblate parish of St Joseph’s, for our time of reflection and prayer together, centred on today’s Gospel reading: “Unless each of you forgives your brother and sister, the Father will not forgive you.“ Today also marks the two-year anniversary of the...

Good morning, today we invite you to join Leanne Bell, a member of the Oblate parish of St Joseph’s, Colwyn Bay in North Wales for our time of reflection and prayer together. Springtime and Lent are all about new beginnings, doing things differently, a time of reflection as spring unfolds. “Therefore, whoever breaks one of...