Good morning and welcome to morning prayer with Angel, from Dublin. Today’s Gospel reading is from Saint Matthew, in which Jesus challenges us to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute us. Angel is reminded of all the ways in which God has forgiven her. It is a profoundly healing experience that,...

Good morning everyone, and welcome to morning prayer with Angel, from Dublin. Today’s Gospel reading is from Saint Matthew, where Jesus challenges us to repent and reconcile. Why is it so difficult to ask for forgiveness? Acknowledging that we’ve made mistakes isn’t easy. It involves a letting go of the self, and is an act...

Good morning everyone, and welcome to morning prayer with Fr Frank Ryan, from Colwyn Bay, Wales. Today’s Gospel reading is from Saint Matthew. Jesus said to his disciples, “Ask, and you shall receive”. There is wisdom in knowing that you don’t know everything, and in knowing that they are things out there which are spiritual...

Good morning and welcome to morning prayer with Sr Lumay, of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, Dublin. Lumay explores today’s reading, saying that the things we are asked to do are so simple: give food and drink to Jesus in those who are hungry and thirsty; to clothe Jesus in those who are naked, and...

Good morning everyone! Today, as we approach the one-year anniversary of the conflict in Ukraine, we’re re-sharing Fr Martin’s morning prayer from this time last year. The Gospel reading speaks of the father coming and praying that whatever little bit of faith they have, Jesus will work a miracle. Sometimes our faith can feel weak,...

Good morning everyone, and welcome to morning prayer with Kirk Jacob and his friend, Joe O’Connell. Today’s Gospel reading comes from the account of Saint Mark, and covers a time when Jesus cured a boy of an unclean spirit. Joe discusses the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine and the lives affected. He talks...

Good morning and welcome to morning prayer, with Br Carl Peter, in Rome. Today’s Gospel reading comes from Saint Matthew. It is of the time when Jesus taught his disciples to love their enemies. Carl focuses on this word, “enemy”. Let us endeavour not to have enemies, but rather love everyone, as Jesus taught us....

Hello everyone and welcome to morning prayer with Petru, an Oblate scholastic in Rome. Today’s Gospel reading focuses on the Transfiguration of the Lord. Petru reminds us that the transfiguration offers us a message of hope – this is how we will be with him. It helps us to reflect on the importance of detaching...

Good morning everyone, and welcome to morning prayer with Fr Irvin Morastil and the youth of El Shaddai, in London. Today marks the 197th anniversary of the approval of the Constitutions and Rules of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The Gospel reading today comes from the account of Saint Mark. It is of the...

Hello everyone, and welcome to morning prayer with Fr Irvin Morastil, from English Martyrs parish, in Tower Hill, London. Today’s Gospel reading comes from the account of Saint Mark. It is of the time when Jesus asked his disciples who do you say I am? Peter responded that he is the Christ, after which Jesus...