July
The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Monday 31st July 2023
Good morning, dear friends and welcome to our morning Prayer. Sr Anne Donnelly DHS, from Wistaston Hall: Oblate Retreat Centre, leads us today in our prayers. Today’s gospel reminds us that even the smallest things can give glory to God, such as a mustard seed. So let us ask ourselves how today, in the...
The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Sunday 30th July 2023
Good morning, dear friends and welcome to our morning Prayer. Kirk and Aloy, from London, lead us today in our prayers. As we reflect on today’s Gospel we are asked to remember our youth who travel out today and tomorrow towards Lisbon for World Youth Day. They go to meet with millions of young...
The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Saturday 29th July 2023
Good morning, dear friends and welcome to our morning Prayer. Kay Curran leads us in prayer this morning. She is part of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team. Thank you for joining her in her Dublin home. Today is the feast of Mary, Martha and Lazarus and we use their story in today’s Gospel to reflect...
The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Thursday 20th July 2023
We join John in Colwyn Bay, North Wales for our prayer today. Today’s reading calls us to reflect on how there is no doubt we would all prefer a life without trouble, stress, anxiety or worries. But as we know, this is never the case. However, through our faith and prayer, Jesus promises that we are...
The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Wednesday 19th July
We join Iola in Colwyn Bay, North Wales for our prayer today. Friends, today we reflect on how God calls us by our name and we each are called for a special purpose and a special mission, just like Jeremiah in today’s reading. We may respond just like Jeremiah did. We might say that we are...
The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Tuesday 18th July 2023
We join Fr Vimal OMI and Carl Peter OMI in Colwyn Bay, North Wales for our prayer today. Friends, today we have a very challenging gospel, contentious and difficult to justify because we see a dimension to Jesus’s public persona that we don’t read very often. And the anger, that anger with others. And this can...
Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Wednesday 12th July 2023
Good morning, you’re very welcome and thank you for joining us in our morning reflection from Saint Joseph’s in Colwyn Bay. Wherever there are two or three of us gathering in faith and in hope, Jesus is with us to guide, lead and direct our prayer and our journey through this new day with each...
Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Good morning, you’re very welcome and thank you for joining us in our morning reflection from Saint Joseph’s in Colwyn Bay. Wherever there are two or three of us gathering in faith and in hope, Jesus is with us to guide, lead and direct our prayer and our journey through this new day with each...
Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Sunday 9th July 2023
Good morning, fellow Christian brothers and sisters and welcome to morning prayer with Carl Lanigan OMI, a trainee priest in Rome. Originally from the parish of Darndale. Today’s gospel falls at the most appropriate time. I know that students in Rome and elsewhere in the world, have just come to the end of our...
Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Saturday 8th July 2023
Good morning, fellow Christian brothers and sisters and welcome to morning prayer with Carl Lanigan OMI, a trainee priest in Rome. Originally from the parish of Darndale. This morning’s message is a very simple but profound lesson, in what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ. We hear that there’s a time for fasting, for feasting...