Good morning, welcome to our Oblate Family Morning Prayer. Today we join Sr Anne Petit from London, on Wednesday 26th February 2025, the 7th Week in Ordinary Time.  Gospel Mark 9:38-40 ‘For the one who is not against us is for us.’ Sr Anne reflects:  “This is a principle we need to take seriously to heart....

Good morning, welcome to our Oblate Family Morning Prayer. Today we join Fr Vimal OMI  from his parish in Colwyn Bay, Wales, on Tuesday 25th February 2025, the 7th Week in Ordinary Time.  Gospel Mark 9:30-37 ‘The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men… If anyone would be first,...

OMIWORLD Centred on Jesus Christ, celebrating our Constitutions and Rules Letter of the Superior General 17 February 2025   LJC et MI Dear Oblates and all the brothers and sisters of our charismatic family. We are living in a time of grace that illuminates our pilgrimage. The celebration of the Jubilee Year of the Catholic...

Lighting our pilgrimage candle for your intentions at the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes A small group of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage team are currently present in Lourdes, planning for September’s pilgrimage and celebrating Our Lady’s Feast Day. We have brought your prayers and intentions to the Grotto, and we continue to remember them...

Friends, Please see below the February 2025 issue of Oblate Connections in PDF format and a new interactive format called Epub which is used for digital books and is supported by many e-readers, and compatible software is available for most smartphones, tablets, and computers. When you open the PDF version, you may be given an option...

Fr John McFadden OMI 25th May 1966 – 15th January 2025 We invite you to watch the recording of the Requiem Mass for the repose of the soul of Fr John McFadden OMI which took place in St Ninian’s parish church, Gourock on Wednesday 29th January at 11.30am. 

OMIWORLD Letter on the 209th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Congregation of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Rome, January 25, 2025 Dear brother Oblates and dear members of the Oblate family! With joy and gratitude, we remember and celebrate the birthday of our Congregation, the beginning of our community life. On January 25,...

OMIWORLD We warmly invite all Oblates and members of the Oblate Charismatic Family to our Zoom Animation Meeting, to be held on January 25, 2025, at 14:00 (Local Time in Rome). As we journey toward the 200th anniversary of the approval of our Constitutions and Rules, we are reminded of the fervent spirit our Founder,...

 Gospel Reflection Sunday 19th January 2025 | 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time | John 2:1-11 If Agatha Christie were to write a novel based on this week’s Gospel, she might well call it, “the strange affair of the wedding at Cana.” Why? Because whenever we see a reading from John’s Gospel, we should immediately presume...

Dear friends, we in the Oblate Community announce with the greatest sadness the death of Fr John McFadden OMI on Wednesday January 15th 2025 at 00:53 in the company of his beloved family in the Holy Rosary care facility of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Greenock in his hometown of Glasgow. Our prayers are...