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...

Bernadette is a young French saint whose life and legacy has touched the lives of people all over the world. She is, of course, best known for a series of Marian apparitions in Lourdes, where Mary asked for a chapel to be built near the cave grotto. The Story of Lourdes > She also said...

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, our seven Faith Communities on Anglesey were engaged in a journey of conversation and prayerful reflection, through many small house groups across Anglesey, in preparation for our Island Assembly to be held May 2020. The COVID pandemic brought our journey to an abrupt halt! After the interruption of Covid lockdowns,...

On behalf of the core team charged with planning and organising the participation of lay people associated with the Oblates of the Anglo Irish Province in the recent Oblate Lay Associations Congress, we would like to thank you very sincerely for the very many ways in which you engaged with the Congress and the pre-Congress...

The 37th General Chapter of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate will be held in Nemi, Italy, from September 14 to October 14, 2022 The general chapter of a religious community or congregation is the largest decision-making gathering of representatives of a community from its various locations around the globe. In our case, representatives from...

No more shouting David Wells is a well-known speaker in Catholic circles, having been all around the world giving inspiring talks to groups large and small, and we were recently blessed to have him at our retreat centre in Crewe. This July, a group of 20 of us took part in a retreat on the...

Many years planning and preparation went into the organisation of OLAC 2022 – bringing together all those people connected to the Oblate family around the world to share how we live as “Oblate People”. At a global level, three live-streamed online session were broadcast from the Oblate General House in Rome which hosted fantastic presentations...

The late South African Archbishop, and social justice and anti-apartheid campaigner, Denis Hurley of the Order of Mary Immaculate or OMI (1915-2004) was archbishop of Durban from 1951 until 1992. Born in Cape Town to Irish emigrant parents, he spent his early years on Robben Island – site of the jail in which Nelson Mandela...

25 years on from the first meeting, the second Oblate Lay Associations Congress (OLAC) recently took place, from 27-29 May 2022. In a remarkable feat, regions from around the world came together, united by their Oblate charism, for an event that was years in the making. After two and a half years of preparation, we...