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I don't know why it does not do that since it is all free format, possibly because it is not able to determine what part is the date and what constitutes time.

It does seem to work with a space...

awk '/ORA- error/{print "### ORA found in log: " FILENAME, $0 }' RS= ORS='\n\n' myFile

If you're only processing completed log files, vgersh99's suggestion can be simplified a little bit:
awk '/ORA- error/' RS= ORS='\n\n' myFile
If you are processing active log files and you want to...

how about:

awk '/^Starting.*Completed$/ && /ORA- error/' RS= ORS='\n\n' myFile

Try something like:
select f in $(ls -p | grep -v /)
do
cat "$f"
done

This would only work if the are no files with spaces or newlines in the directory which may be OK from the command...