Friends, we join Olga Slater in London for our morning prayer today, Wednesday June 19th 2024. Gospel | Matthew 6:1-6,16-18 © “Your Father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you” Olga reflects: “A challenging gospel today – it is almost a reminder about self re-examining oursleves – like a spiritual checklist...

Today, we invite you to join Pat Hughes once again for our morning prayer from her home in Birkenhead, England. Pat is a member of the Friends of Saint Eugene. Gospel | Matthew 5:43-48 “Pray for those who persecute you” Pat reflects on today’s gospel reading: “Following on from yesterday, when Jesus asked us to...

Today, we invite you to join Pat Hughes, a member of the Friends of Saint Eugene, for our morning prayer from her home in Birkenhead, England. Gospel | Matthew 5:38-42 “Offer the wicked man no resistance” Pat reflects on today’s gospel reading: “An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth.” It sounds very...

Today, we invite you to join Christine Hunt for our morning prayer from her home on Anglesey. Gospel Matthew 5:20-26 Anyone who is angry with his brother will answer for it Christine Hunt reflects on today’s gospel reading: “Jesus was saying that his listeners needed a different kind of righteousness altogether out of the love...

Today, we invite you to join Christine Hunt for our morning prayer from her home on Anglesey. Gospel Matthew 5:17-19 I have not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets but to complete them Christine Hunt reflects on today’s gospel reading: “In building upon the law, Jesus reveals his teaching the heart of God...

Dear friends, today we invite you to join Ciarán Leonard, a member of the Oblate Family, for our morning prayer from his home in Central Brazil again this morning. Gospel | Matthew 5:1-12 How happy are the poor in spirit Ciaran reflects on today’s gospel reading: “They’re very strong words that Matthew uses in his...

Friends, we join with Sacred Heart Parish in Kilburn for morning prayer again for morning prayer on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary with Fr Tom Devereux OMI, the parish priest of the Oblate Parishes in Kilburn. Gospel | Luke 2:41-51 © Mary stored up all these things in her heart Fr Tom...

Friends, we join with Sacred Heart Parish in Kilburn for morning prayer once more for our morning prayer on the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus with Fr Tom Devereux OMI, the parish priest of the Oblate Parishes in Kilburn. Gospel | John 19:31-37 ©Out of his pierced side there came out blood and...

Friends, we return to Sacred Heart Church in Kilburn once more for morning prayer with Lucia. Gospel | Mark 12:28-34 © ‘You are not far from the kingdom of God’ Lucia reflects on today’s gospel reading: “The central theme in both of Jesus’s teachings is the call to love. The first commandment instructs us to...

Friends, we return to Kilburn once more for morning prayer with Johnny Bosco in Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, West Kilburn. We remember especially the soul of Fr Paschal Dillon OMI whose funeral mass takes place today in Inchicore. Gospel | Mark 12:18-27 © The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob is the God...