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Today we celebrate Blessed Joseph Gérard OMI — and his story is one of the most extraordinary in Oblate history. He arr...
29/05/2026

Today we celebrate Blessed Joseph Gérard OMI — and his story is one of the most extraordinary in Oblate history. He arrived in southern Africa in 1852 as a young French missionary. He spent the next 52 years with the Basotho people - through drought, war, displacement, and hardship - never leaving, never giving up. He didn’t build an empire. He built trust, one relationship at a time.

And when he died at 88, thousands came to mourn him. Sometimes faithfulness looks less like a grand gesture and more like just… staying.

Bl. Joseph Gérard, pray for us.
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St Eugene de Mazenod’s last words to his Oblates weren’t about strategy, buildings, or numbers. They were: “Charity. Ch...
27/05/2026

St Eugene de Mazenod’s last words to his Oblates weren’t about strategy, buildings, or numbers. They were: “Charity. Charity. Charity.”

After a lifetime of building, founding, fighting, leading - it came down to love. How we treat each other. How we see the people in front of us. As we come to the end of his feast week, we’re left with a question: What do you want the people around you to remember about you? Not your achievements. Not your title. But the way you made them feel. Charity. It’s still the whole thing
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Eugene de Mazenod founded a tiny group of missionaries in 1816. He had no money. No buildings. No guarantee any of it w...
26/05/2026

Eugene de Mazenod founded a tiny group of missionaries in 1816. He had no money. No buildings. No guarantee any of it would last. But when bishops from Canada, South Africa, Sri Lanka and beyond came asking for missionaries, Eugene said yes - every single time - even when he barely had the men to spare. His motto wasn’t “let’s be sensible.” It was: Leave nothing undared for the Kingdom of God.

Today, Oblate missionaries serve in 67 countries, in prisons, schools, remote communities, refugee camps, and forgotten places the world forgets. That’s what one man’s ‘yes’ looks like, 200 years later.
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When Eugene de Mazenod was ordained a priest, he could have taken a comfortable parish. Instead, he went to the prisons...
25/05/2026

When Eugene de Mazenod was ordained a priest, he could have taken a comfortable parish. Instead, he went to the prisons. He went to the young men the city had given up on. He preached, not in polished Latin, but in the rough dialect of the poor, so they could actually hear the Good News. He believed that the poor deserved the best the Church had to offer, not the leftovers. That conviction became the DNA of the Oblates and it’s just as radical today as it was 200 years ago.
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Eugene de Mazenod returned to France at the age of 20; no title, no money, his family fractured. He was deeply depresse...
23/05/2026

Eugene de Mazenod returned to France at the age of 20; no title, no money, his family fractured. He was deeply depressed, directionless, drifting. Then one Good Friday, kneeling before the Cross, something shifted. He didn’t hear a voice or see a vision. He simply encountered, perhaps for the first time in his bones, that he was loved. Completely. Without condition. That moment didn’t just change Eugene. It eventually changed the Church in 67 countries. Sometimes one encounter with God’s love is enough to redirect an entire life
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What do you do when everything is taken from you? As a boy, Eugene de Mazenod watched his family lose everything, their...
22/05/2026

What do you do when everything is taken from you?

As a boy, Eugene de Mazenod watched his family lose everything, their home, their status, their future, as the French Revolution turned their world upside down. For years they drifted across Italy as refugees, scraping by, uncertain of what came next. But something unexpected happened in exile: in Venice, a gentle priest named Don Bartolo Zinelli took this restless, lonely boy under his wing and planted in him a seed of faith that would one day feed thousands. God has a way of using our hardest seasons to prepare us for our greatest ones.
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On this special feast day of St Eugene de Mazenod, our founder, we are excited to announce the release of a new resource...
21/05/2026

On this special feast day of St Eugene de Mazenod, our founder, we are excited to announce the release of a new resource for the De Mazenod Family, a podcast series of 15 episodes that follows the text, 15 Days of Prayer with Saint Eugene de Mazenod.

Head to our website to listen to the episodes now as they guide you through a reflection on the life and mission of St Eugene: https://omi.com.au/15-days-of-prayer-podcast

Happy Feast Day! ✨ Two hundred years ago, a young priest in the south of France gathered a small group of missionaries a...
21/05/2026

Happy Feast Day! ✨ Two hundred years ago, a young priest in the south of France gathered a small group of missionaries and asked them to go where no one else wanted to go — to the forgotten, the poor, the spiritually lost. That priest was Eugene de Mazenod. And that mission never stopped.

Today, on his feast day, we celebrate not just a saint but a way of seeing the world - one where no person is too broken, too far, or too forgotten to be loved.
St Eugene de Mazenod, inspire us to dare.
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✨ Oblate Week 2026 Resources Are Here ✨As we celebrate 200 years since the Pontifical Approval of the Missionary Oblates...
13/05/2026

✨ Oblate Week 2026 Resources Are Here ✨

As we celebrate 200 years since the Pontifical Approval of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, we’re excited to share this year’s Oblate Week resources with communities across Australia. Including prayers, reflections, formation resources, and the 2026 May Program, these resources can be used during Oblate Week and throughout the year as we continue to “leave nothing undared for the Kingdom of God.” 🔥

Oblate Week Resources 2026 ✝️ - https://mailchi.mp/152067fbbe12/de-mazenod-family-chat-vol-17458567

On this day in 1917, Our Lady appeared to three shepherd children in Fatima, asking for prayer, conversion, and peace. H...
13/05/2026

On this day in 1917, Our Lady appeared to three shepherd children in Fatima, asking for prayer, conversion, and peace. Her message is as urgent today as it was then. Today we pray the Rosary together for peace in our world and in our hearts. 🕊️ Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
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