Over the last week four members of the Oblate community in Dublin have been called home to the Lord. Please join our community at Sacred Heart Church, London as they gather to pray for and remember these four servants of the Lord. May they rest in peace.

Fr John Murphy OMI 1926 – 2020 John Murphy was born on April 1st 1926 in Termonfechin, Co. Louth, ‘the cultural capital of the world’, as he himself would say. Secondary education completed, he entered the Oblate Novitiate (Cahermoyle) in September 1944. He made his Final Profession as a Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate at...

Isolation, Holy Week and Easter The physical aspect of relationship is essential to us as humans. During these challenging times we are now communicating through various forms of social media. While we experience each other as disembodied people, faces and voices brought together through technology there is something crucial and essential missing. It’s not just...

Fr Thomas Scully OMI  1930 – 2020 Tom Scully was born in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, on 19 May 1930. Second level education completed at Belcamp College, Dublin in June 1948, he entered the Oblate Novitiate that September. An excellent student, he studied philosophy at UCD, followed by theology at the Oblate Scholasticate in Co. Kilkenny,...

The death has occurred of Fr. John Nolan OMI. He was from King Street, Wexford Town. After ordination he was assigned to serve in South Africa, spending more than 50 years in Bloemfontein. He returned to Ireland retire a few years ago. FrJohn died during the night of April 8th in St. James’s Hospital Dublin. Pre-deceased...

An Update from Oblate Provincial, Fr Oliver Barry OMI As we enter the Triduum of Holy Week we do so with a mind and heart that we have not known before. We do not have the ceremonies that we have cherished all our lives. However the reality of Holy Week has become ever more real....

We regret to announce that Fr. John Murphy OMI has passed away peacefully in the early hours of the morning in the House of Retreat.  Ar dheis Dé go raibh anam dílis. Please pray for the repose of his soul. John, who was 94 on 1st of April, and thanks to the work of the...

April 7th 2020 The death occurred this morning of Father Tom Scully OMI in St. James’s Hospital, Dublin. Tom was a member of the House of Retreat Community,  Inchicore.  May he rest in peace. More details to follow.     

Fr Anthony Carroll OMI    1929-2020 Anthony (Tony) Carroll was born in West Derby, Liverpool on 28 February 1929. His family were parishioners at St Teresa’s Parish, Norris Green, which was then an Oblate parish. Tony was an altar server from his early years and was very interested in his parish. After completing second level education...

Tomorrow (Friday), at 5pm Irish and UK time, our Holy Father, Pope Francis, will preside over an extraordinary global celebration (Statio orbis) of prayer. It will take place on the sagrato of Saint Peter’s Basilica, Rome. The ceremony, to be broadcast live by RTÉ News Live, will consist of readings from the Scriptures, prayers of...