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January 22, 2016

The Oblates at 200

The Oblates at 200

A history of service

Published in The Oblates at 200
January 21, 2016

A ‘Prairie staple’

Fr. Albert Lacombe

As Canada gets ready for its multi-million-dollar 150th birthday celebration in 2017, party planners would do well to remember the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Pioneers, missionaries, pastors, educators, peacemakers, nation builders — few organizations stand ahead of the Oblates, as they are commonly known, in terms of the quantity and quality of their contributions to Canada.

Published in Editorial
October 10, 2015

Good News drenched in Precious Blood

St. Gaspar del Bufalo, immortalized in a statue, liberated the papal states of northern Italy from the briganti, or bandits, who took over following Napoleon’s declaration of a republic, armed with only a cross and by preaching about the precious blood of Jesus.

If you’re going to preach in the modern world you need powerful language. The Missionaries of the Precious Blood have had that power incorporated into their very name for the last 200 years. From “blood brothers” to “Bloody Sunday,” “the blood of the Lamb” to “blood libel,” the 600 priests and brothers who call themselves Precious Bloods have the most arresting imagery in the entire story of human salvation as their calling card.

Published in Call to Service