This past weekend, the community at the church of the Sacred Heart had their blessing of the pets, where parishioners brought in their cats, dogs and others to receive a blessing. Lively animals aren’t the easiest to photograph, but we did our best!
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.