Servant Leadership In Action
Category: Oblate Communities
“The greatest among you shall be your servant.” — Matthew 23:11
Fr. Jim is Servant Leadership in action. He’ll tell you his job is “just serving my brothers.”
What Does It Take To Become A Saint?
Category: News and Events
The Gist on CatholicTV with Dr Cabrini Pak
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Ordination of Fr. Paul Nguyen, OMV
Category: News and Events
Priestly Ordination Video of Fr. Paul Nguyen, OMV With great joy and gratitude to God, the Oblates of the Virgin Mary are pleased to announce the Priestly Ordination of Fr. Paul Nguyen, OMV. Thank you to all those who have helped to make this great day a reality. Please continue to pray for Fr. Paul…
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Catholicism in the Philippines and the Oblates’ Mission
Category: Oblate Communities
Every country brings pieces of its own culture to the Catholic faith, and the Philippines is no different. Catholicism in the Philippines carries with it an especially strong devotion to Mary and the saints. Let’s take a brief look at Catholicism in the Philippines today.
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On The Mountain with God
Category: Seminarian Blog
authored by Br. Leland Thorpe, OMV Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them. – Mark 9:2 The first time that I saw the Alps, I was floored. We had arrived at our hotel in Lucerne on a foggy evening, after…
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Final Vows and Diaconate Ordination of Br. Paul Matthew Nguyen, OMV
Category: News and Events
Watch the Profession of Perpetual Vows and the Ordination to the Diaconate of Br. Paul Matthew Nguyen, OMV February 9 and 10, 2018
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Mary, Did You Know?
Category: Seminarian Blog
This article began as a response to a discussion that recurs every year around this time… the debate over the orthodoxy or heterodoxy of the popular song Mary, Did You Know?. I figured I would weigh in on this song that I have come to love. Here is a spectacular performance of it: Several objections…
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Treasure of God’s Heart
Category: Seminarian Blog
This post is adapted from an exegetical reflection on the first reading for the Feast of the Sacred Heart by Br. Leland Thorpe. Ever since the Oblates of the Virgin Mary were consecrated as a Congregation to the Sacred Heart in 1873, this feast day has had a special prominence in the Congregation’s life and…
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Nothing if not You, Lord
Category: Seminarian Blog
Authored by Jay-Ar San Juan There is a beautiful story of when St. Thomas Aquinas was writing his treatise on the Eucharist for the Summa Theologiae. The story goes that he was very dissatisfied with it; he believed that his work did not do justice for the great mystery of the Eucharist. He was later…
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