Some Reflections on my experience of WYD (World Youth Day) – “Mary set out in haste to meet her cousin Elizabeth” and so did our small group to Lisbon! Looking back over my time at WYD (World Youth Day), I have this sense that so much came at my senses from all directions that it...

When asked how our experience of the Lisbon World Youth Day was, in short we would say; Encouraging, inspirational, overwhelming at times, but that it set a better foundation in faith for ourselves. Picture this, it’s Saturday and the evening is drawing in, bringing with it a well welcomed breeze. The day had reached an...

Season of Creation 2023 : “Let Justice and Peace Flow” Published on Thursday 31 August 2023, www.omiworld,org Jean-Hérick JASMIN, OMI (Director JPIC) Every year from September 1st to October 4th, the Laudato Sí Action Plan team invites us to celebrate as a community and throughout the world the “Season of Creation.” The Season of Creation...

We’d like to invite those who aren’t able to join us in Lourdes to send us your prayer intentions. So we may present them to Our Lady at the Grotto where she appeared to Saint Bernadette so long ago. You can do so by: Emailing them to lourdes@oblates.ie Or filling out the form below: Send...

The funeral mass and celebration of the life of Oblate Fr Gerry Kenny OMI took place on the 2nd of August 2023 at 12-Noon in the Oblate Mary Immaculate Church, Tyrconnell Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8 Gerry Kenny was born in Ballymacward, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway on 27 February 1936. He attended primary school in Arklow, Co....

Let us walk together listening to the call to care for the common home. DOWNLOAD PDF LJC et MI Dear Brother Oblates and members of our Charismatic Family, September 1st is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. It is an initiative of Pope Francis who has also written the Encyclical Laudato...

Today has seen another jam-packed World Youth Day (WYD) full of Rise Encounters and finished off with the Way Of The Cross with Pope Francis this evening.  The Oblate Youth team took the opportunity to attend a talk from Bishop Barron, as well as other speakers and to explore the town of Lisbon with the...

Thursday 3rd August 2023, saw the official opening ceremony with Pope Francis. It is estimated that 500,000 young people turned up to Park Eduardo to greet and listen to him.  Our Oblate Youth from the Anglo-Irish province along with many others arrived two hours early to get a good spot and enjoy the live performances....

Olivier Giroud, a professional French soccer player and faithful Christian, shared a video message on Tuesday 1st August addressing the 40,000 young French people at the “Time of the French” event during the first day of World Youth Day (WYD) in Lisbon, Portugal. “You 40,000 French people, united by faith in Jesus, how beautiful you are! You...

  Our youth from the Anglo-Irish province have arrived in Lisbon for World Youth Day 2023 and taken the first day by storm.   The morning saw them joining the worldwide community of Oblates to meet with Superior General, Fr Chicho.  Around a thousand of the Oblate youth gathered in Parque de Jogos 1º de...