Oblates (Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate)

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Our founder St. Eugene de Maznod, first sent Oblates to Britain and Ireland in 1841. Local people, in their turn, soon began to leave these islands to help continue the work of the Gospels throughout the world. So, Oblate missionaries were sent to places such as Sri Lanka, Canada and South Africa. Always some remained to work with immigrants and the poorer areas of the major cities in these islands and they strove to build up communities centered on the liberating presence of Jesus Christ.

Today their are men from this Anglo-Irish province in places as far away as Brazil, Australia, The Philippines and Indonesia. They are helping the church take root in local cultures. As well as these, there are 150 Oblates, priests and brothers, gathering in small faith communities across Britain and Ireland. They work at keeping hope alive in the middle of life’s difficulties, especially where there is poverty, addiction or lack of opportunity.

Together we are nourished by God’s word, sustained in prayer and united in the Eucharist. At the centre of our lives stands the figure of Jesus. God became like one of us, so that we might become like God. Jesus shares our joy and our grief, our hope and our anguish. Following where he calls, we come as we are, leaning on God and on each other for the strength and the courage to respond in these present times to the needs of our world.

Oblates (Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate)

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