With Mary Ryan in Sacred Heart Church, Kilburn. Good morning, we invite you to join Mary for today’s prayer and reflection. This morning we hear the gospel reading of the Prodigal Son. ‘The father said, “My son, you are with me always and all I have is yours. But it was only right we should...

Good morning, everyone! Today, we invite you to join James, from London, for our morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke, “Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and acts on them – I will show you what he is like. He is like the man who when he...

The Oblates join with the rest of the world as we express our sympathy at the death of Queen Elizabeth II. At this time, we pray for the repose of the soul of Queen Elizabeth. We do so with confidence, because the Christian faith marked every day of her life and activity. In her Millennium...

Good morning, everyone! Today, we invite you to join James and Bruna, from London, for our morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke, “Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the plank in your own?” It’s a very natural and human temptation to make assessments and...

Good morning, everyone! Today, we invite you to join Fr Martin Moran OMI, from St. Mary’s Star of the Sea parish, in Leith, Edinburgh, for our morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Matthew. It describes how Jesus was born – Mary being pregnant, Joseph suggesting to divorce and the angel telling him...

Good morning, everyone! Today, we invite you to join Fr Martin Moran OMI, from St. Mary’s Star of the Sea parish, in Leith, Edinburgh, for our morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke. It is of the Beatitudes. The happiness that Jesus speaks of in today’s reading is not based on fleeting...

Good morning, everyone! Today, we invite you to join Tina Doherty, from St. Mary’s Star of the Sea parish, in Leith, Edinburgh, for our morning prayer. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke. In it, Jesus calls the names of his twelve apostles and heals the people nearby. Before that, Jesus had gone up...

My name is Kirk Jacob and I would like to share my personal experience of the second Oblate Lay Congress through the medium of short interview-style questions and personal responses to each of them. How has the experience changed me? The experience of being at Kokotek, Poland, really transformed my life as I came to...

Carl Lanigan will make his First Vows on Thursday 8 September in Rome, in the parish of the Most Holy Trinity, Marino, at 4:30pm local time, 3:30 pm BST.   The event will be livestreamed through Facebook here >   Fr Ray Warren and Fr Dermot Mills will represent the Province. Ray will receive Carl’s...

Good morning, everyone! Today, we invite you to join Joyce Fegan, from St. Mary’s Star of the Sea parish, in Leith, Edinburgh, for our morning prayer.   Today’s reading is from the Gospel of Luke. It is about the time when Jesus healed the man with the withered hand on the Sabbath, much to the...