When: Friday, July 15th, 2011.
Web: The OSSE does not have a website. This website gives a basic overview of the order. The ADW directory gives their contact details.
We attended the regular 7:30pm Friday Mass at this convent in the leafy Forest Hills neighborhood of the city. The Oblate Sisters are a small contemplative order from Mexico with convents in Massachusetts as well as DC. The surprisingly large wooden-finish chapel (with space for about sixty people) sits at the edge of the convent's property.
The priest was assisted by two altar servers, a reader, a eucharistic minister, and various people in the twenty-strong congregation who sang hymns and said intercessory prayers. The priest focused his homily on God's love for each one of us and of how our love of Him should be greater than our love of the law or anything else. He spoke of how the sacraments were instruments of God's love for us. The Mass followed the standard rite. Both the host and wine were offered for Communion.