Good morning friends, today we join Fr Terry Murray OMI, from the Sacred Heart parish in Kilburn, London.   The Gospel reading today: A lawyer, to disconcert Jesus, asked him this question: “Which is the greatest commandment of the Law?” And Jesus said, “’You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with...

Good morning friends, today we join Fr Johnson Susai Raj OMI, from the Sacred Heart parish in Kilburn, London. In today’s reading from the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus says remove the plank from your own eye before taking out the splinter from another person. Jesus did not condemn people, but invited them to become the...

Good morning friends, today we join Fr Terry Murray OMI, from the Sacred Heart parish in Kilburn, London. Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi – literally the feast of the Body of Christ. As Catholics, we believe that we receive the body of Christ in the Eucharist. The feast also reminds us that we...

Good morning friends, today we join Fr Terry Murray OMI, from the Sacred Heart parish in Kilburn, London. In today’s reading from Matthew, there is a focus on the importance of living in the present moment, and not to worry about yesterday or tomorrow. Yesterday has gone, tomorrow is not here – all we have...

Dear friends, we join Tom McCabe OMI, an Oblate of Mary Immaculate; and who works at our Mission Development Office in Dublin, from where we support the community projects and other missionary work of Oblates in many poor countries. As we listen to God’s word for today from Saint Matthew’s gospel, we can recognize that...

Dear friends, good morning. For today’s morning reflection we join Fr Tom McCabe OMI in Inchicore.  The Our Father is a God-centred prayer, as is all prayer, one that most of us are so familiar with. Join Fr Tom in reflecting on the Lord’s Prayer. Jesus said to his disciples: ‘In your prayers do not...

Friends, we join Olga Slater in London once again for our morning prayer. “So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets so that they may be praised by others.“ Another challenging gospel today – it is almost a reminder about...

Bernie Colgan OMI celebrated his 80th birthday on Sunday in Rio De Janeiro Brazil 🇧🇷 where he has been a Missionary all his life.   There was a Mass to celebrate the date and his more than 40 years of service to the diocese of Duque de Caxias in the state of Rio de Janeiro....

Friends, we join Olga Slater in London for morning prayer. Today, Olga reads the passage of the gospel in which Jesus offers an extremely – maybe impossible(!) – challenge to his disciples and also to us in these times: that we must “love our enemies” and be “perfect” like God… Many such people do succeed...

Dear friends, we join Margaret Hughes, a member of the Oblate Parish Community of Darndale-Belcamp and principal of Darndale Junior School, for today’s morning prayer. Today’s reading is the encounter of Jesus and the woman at the well. Jesus displays respect for the woman at the well, despite her history and being a Samaritan, demonstrating...