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Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Wednesday August 24th
Dear friends, good morning and welcome to today’s morning prayer on Wednesday August 24th. We invite you to join Theresa Codd, from Birkenhead, England, for a few moments of prayer and reflection together. Today’s reading comes from the Gospel of John, and is about the time when Philip introduced Nathaniel to Jesus. Jesus sees us...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Tuesday August 23rd
Dear friends, good morning and welcome to today’s morning prayer on Tuesday August 23rd. We invite you to join Martina Cooley, of the Kairos Community Trust, for a few moments of prayer and reflection together. Today’s reading comes from the Gospel of Matthew. In reality, appearances aren’t everything, yet we are often attracted to something,...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Monday August 22nd
Dear friends, good morning and welcome to today’s morning prayer on Monday August 22nd. We invite you to join Jason O’Reilly, of the Kairos Community Trust, for a few moments of prayer and reflection together. Today’s reading comes from Saint Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians. We can see great hope in their unwavering faith in...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Sunday August 21st
Dear friends, good morning and welcome to today’s morning prayer on Sunday August 21st. We invite you to join Dominic, of the Kairos Community Trust and Oblates Lourdes Pilgrimage Team, for a few moments of prayer and reflection together. Today’s reading comes from Hebrews. Dominic talks about his past with addiction and the effects it...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates: August 20th
Dear friends, good morning and welcome to today’s morning prayer on Saturday August 20th. We invite you to join Mossie Lyons, Director of the Kairos Community Trust, for a few moments of prayer and reflection together. Today’s reading comes from the Gospel according to Matthew and has a focus on humility. We are asked to...

Join Frankie MacDonald for Oblate Morning Prayer:
Dear friends, good morning and welcome to today’s morning prayer on Friday August 19th. We invite you to join Frankie MacDonald, a member of the Oblate Lourdes Hospitalité, in Scotland for our daily few moments of prayer and reflection together. “And He said to them, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your...

Join Frankie MacDonald for Morning Prayer on August 18th
Dear friends, good morning and welcome to today’s morning prayer on Thursday August 18th. We invite you to join Frankie MacDonald in Scotland for a few moments of prayer and reflection together. Today’s parable of the wedding feasts and the guests was relevant to its time and context. What’s important to take out of this...

Morning Prayer with the Oblates: August 17th
Good morning friends, today we join Kirk Jacob of the Oblate Partners in Mission Team for morning prayer based on Psalm 23 – ‘The Lord is my Shepherd there is nothing I shall want’ – filmed at Esplanade, Lourdes. We often hear this psalm sung at funerals, a reminder of the unconditional love of Christ,...

Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: Tuesday August 16th
Good morning friends, today we join Kirk Jacob of the Oblate Partners in Mission Team in Lourdes for morning prayer. The theme of today’s prayer is the invitation to be an ‘Anawim’. The anawim of the Old Testament were the poor of every sort: the vulnerable, the marginalized, and socio-economically oppressed, those of lowly status...

Anglesey Island Assembly – For a Synodal Church
Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, our seven Faith Communities on Anglesey were engaged in a journey of conversation and prayerful reflection, through many small house groups across Anglesey, in preparation for our Island Assembly to be held May 2020. The COVID pandemic brought our journey to an abrupt halt! After the interruption of Covid lockdowns,...