Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Prayer on the first day of our Lourdes pilgrimage this year. We join Gerard Bennett, of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team. The Gospel reading is from Luke, and is the parable of the sower, planting his seeds different surfaces – rich soil, rock, path and thorns. Today, we...

Seven Lay Associates participate in the 37th Oblate General Chapter currently taking place in Nemi, Rome, and with is PaulineThomas of our own province. Pauline is the Oblate Pastoral Associate in the OMI Centre of Mission on Anglesey, Wales. You can watch back their conversation at the video below:

Good morning everyone. We join Gerard Bennett of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage in Inchicore, Dublin, for morning prayer. Tomorrow, please, God, we will be in Lourdes on pilgrimage. We will be at the grotto of which this one, here in Inchicore, is a replica. What a privilege and grace that will be. And we know...

If you would like, you can pay for one of the following options, to have a candle lit in Lourdes:    

Welcome to our second JPIC video, part of our focus on Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation. Today, we hear from Fr Michael Rodgers, who talks about Celtic spirituality. Fr. Michael Rodgers is a Kiltegan missionary priest, who has lived in Glendalough for the past 30 years. Prior to that, he worked in Kenya for...

Good morning everyone. We join Gerard Bennett of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage in Inchicore, Dublin, for morning prayer today on the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. Mary was told by Simeon “that a sword would pierce her own soul” – speaking of her own suffering and grief that she would experience witnessing the passion...

We join Olga Slater in London once more for today’s morning prayer. Today we mark the exaltation of the cross. The gospel today is probably one of the many known ones we hear of God’s crazy love for us. He continues to pour his love for us to the point of sending his only beloved...

As the Oblate Pilgrimage finally returns to Lourdes in person after a long wait since the Covid pandemic prevented us from traveling, this year we also facilitated those of you at home who were unable to travel to participate online in all our pilgrimage events, the majority of which will be broadcast from Our Lady’s...

We join Olga Slater in London for today’s reflection. In the gospel, we see Jesus visibly moved as he felt compassion for this widow who had now lost her only remaining son. We wonder if just saw in her a foreshadowing of what his own mother would endure at his death. Olga reflects on how...

Today we join Mary Ryan in Sacred Heart Church, Kilburn once again for morning prayer. Today we reflect on the gospel reading which features a centurion who has been told about Jesus and asks him to heal his servant who is sick. The humility of the centurion is profound. Jesus is moved by the humility...