Good morning everyone. It is the final day in Lourdes for the majority of our pilgrims. It’s been a wonderful few days of prayer. We invite you to join members of a very significant section of our pilgrimage – the group from the island of Jersey – who, this year are celebrating 50 years of...

Today, we join Martina and Jason, members of the Lourdes Hospitalité and part of the group of Kairos Community Trust who come to Lourdes every year to accompany the assisted pilgrimage.   Gospel | St Mark – Blind Bartimaeus   “Bartimaeus – the very fact that we know his name, a name that has gone...

Good morning from Lourdes! Today, we join members of the Oblate Youth Service with Fr Eduardo Nunez Yepez OMI in Lourdes on our third day of our pilgrimage, Wednesday 18th September. The young people from the Oblate Youth Service are accompanying and assisting our guests who are staying the Accueil (House of Welcome) during their...

Good morning! Today we join Fr Liam Griffin OMI in Lourdes on our third day of our pilgrimage. Gospel | Luke ‘Jesus said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life and what you will eat, or about your body and what you will wear. For life is more than...

Good morning! Today we join the Overland Pilgrims en route to Lourdes from Nevers. The Overland Pilgrimage left London on Friday morning and has travelled to meet the main pilgrimage for the last three days, making stops to visit the Chapel of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal and the Chapel of St Bernadette, where...

Welcome to Lourdes! The theme of the 2024 pilgrimage is “A light of Hope”. Join Mary O’Brien, Kay curran, Mary Whelan and Rita, who are all volunteers with the Oblate Pilgrimage, for morning prayer from the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes, France.   Overlooking the beautiful Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, this prayer comes...

Good morning! Today we join Jason O’Reilly in London. Jason works with Kairos Community Trust, a charity dedicated to helping homeless men and women with drug and alcohol problems. First reading 1 Corinthians 9:16-19,22-27 © We go into strict training, like fighters at the games Jason reflects on the reading from St Paul: ‘In this...

Good morning! We invite you to join Ciarán Leonard in Brazil for morning prayer on Thursday September 12th. This morning prayer is coming to you from our local community church here. It’s called in Our Lady Queen of Peace, in the wider parish of Saint John the Baptist, which was, over the years, served by...

Good morning! We invite you to join Ciarán Leonard in Brazil for morning prayer on Wednesday September 11th. Gospel | Luke 6:20-26 © Happy are you who are poor, who are hungry, who weep Ciarán reflects: ‘Why are people still dying of hunger? Why are people suffering the effects of war in our world today?...

Good morning! We invite you to join Fr Michael Brady OMI in the parish of Saint Michael’s in Inchicore for morning prayer. Luke 6:12-19 © Jesus chooses his twelve apostles Fr Michael reflects: ‘Jesus called these people to be with him in the mission. “Apostle” means to be sent and on a mission.In the reading,...