We join Olga Slater in London for today’s reflection. In the gospel, we see Jesus visibly moved as he felt compassion for this widow who had now lost her only remaining son. We wonder if just saw in her a foreshadowing of what his own mother would endure at his death. Olga reflects on how the sense of loss which is being shared by many peoples at the death of Queen Elizabeth has united people from all of all faiths, different colours, religions, this pain unites people. Jesus says to the widow, ‘Do not weep’. Perhaps we too can be comforted by these words during times of loss and sorrow and that they might bring peace.
Thank you for joining us this morning.
Good morning, welcome to our Oblate Family Morning Prayer. Today we join...
Good morning, welcome to our Oblate Family Morning Prayer. Today we join...
Oblates exercise very diverse ministries but above all seek to dedicate themselves to the poor and abandoned. One can thus find Oblates in Britain and Ireland working in parishes, in missionary formation, preaching, social justice and pastoral ministries, or prisons. “No ministry is alien to us as long as we never lose sight of the main purpose of the Congregation: the evangelization of the most abandoned.” ~ Oblate Constitutions and Rules.