Beginning at the Grotto in Inchicore join us for the Rosary with decades prayed by members of the Oblate family from Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales and the island of Jersey.   Send your prayers and petitions to lourdes@oblates.ie – we are praying with you and for you over these next few days!   #bringinglourdeshome #alwaysclosetothepeople...

We invite you to join us for today’s mass, Sunday 20th September, the 25th Sunday in ordinary time, and the opening mass of our virtual pilgrimage.   With thanks to Kairos Communications for their help in recording this very special mass at the Grotto. Thank you to all you helped us prepare and contributed to...

Bishop Field is a former barrister, a member of the first successful Irish expedition to Mount Everest in 1993, and also served as a prison chaplain and head chaplain of the Defence Forces. In September 1997 he was appointed Titular Bishop of Ard Mór and Auxiliary bishop of Dublin. He has accompanied the Oblate Pilgrimage...

Join the Oblate Youth Service, who serve our assisted pilgrims so wonderfully each year in Lourdes, in the Oblate parish of Saint Michael’s, Inchicore as we begin our Virtual Pilgrimage together with a time of Taizé prayer and song before the Cross. Our pilgrimage candle is lit in Lourdes by Mons Xavier d’Adrodes & Laura...

Join Gerard Bennett from the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage team for our morning prayer. Please join with us later today as we begin our virtual pilgrimage. “If I, then, the Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you must wash each other’s feet. I have given you an example so that you may copy what I...

We are delighted to present a Virtual Lourdes Pilgrimage beginning Saturday 19th of September to Wednesday 23rd of September. Even though Covid-19 has prevented our pilgrimage from travelling to Lourdes this year, the Oblate Pilgrimage invites you to join with us online. Using the theme “Bringing Lourdes Home”, we will use these few days to prayerfully...

Did you know that there is a replica of the famous Grotto of Lourdes – where Our Lady appeared to Saint Bernadette – here in Dublin?  It was built by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate after the very first pilgrimage from Ireland and the UK to Lourdes in France . As travel was more...

Born on 25 September 1942, at Garvahullion, Drumquin, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Frank was the eldest of a family of one girl and five boys. The family moved to Harold’s Cross, Dublin when he was very young. He remembered his early years as a time of working hard, helping his father with daily milk rounds and...

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Fr Eamon O’Reilly was a missionary in South Africa for 48 years, from 1960 until he retired home to Ireland in 2008. He witnessed enormous social and political upheaval as Apartheid collapsed and the new Republic of South Africa was born. He saw in Soweto the beginnings of the Uprising that would ignite the country. He was right there,...