You are welcome to join Sr Anne Petit in London for our morning prayer. Sr Anne is a member Congregation of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and their convent is in St John’s Wood, London Today, the feast of the Baptism of the Lord, is an opportunity for all of us to...

Good morning, we join Olga Slater in London for morning prayer. The gospel reading today brings to mind the word ‘purpose’. How easy and uncomplicated life would be if, from the word go, we knew what exactly we were born for, what our life’s mission on earth is, like John the Baptist, who was a...

Good morning, we join Olga Slater in London for morning prayer. But now more than ever the word about Jesus spread abroad; many crowds would gather to hear him and to be cured of their diseases. But he would withdraw to deserted places and pray. – Luke 5:12-16 Jesus withdrew to deserted places to pray....

Good morning friends, happy feast day of the Epiphany of the Lord! We join Olga Slater in London. She reflects on the gospel where we hear that Jesus reads the prophecy of Isaiah from the scrolls in the Synagogue. Some parts of the world have already celebrated the Epiphany on Sunday last, and in some...

Friends, join Mary O’Brien in Dublin for our morning prayer. Mary is a member of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage team. When Jesus dismissed the crowd and went up on the mountain to pray… After the hustle and bustle of Christmas days, it can feel like a good idea to find time to get away by...

Friends, join Mary O’Brien in Dublin for our morning prayer. Mary is a member of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage team. Both readings from today’s mass focus on the love of God. The miracle of the loaves and the fish is an expression of the vastness of Gods love for each one of us. The feeding...

Dear friends, we join Fr Lorcan O’Reilly OMI once again for our morning prayer on this Monday of the Second Week of Christmas. John the Baptist is a witness to the light. He prepared the way for the Lord and the first of many witnesses to the Lord. He pointed the way to Jesus, the...

Dear friends, we join Fr Lorcan O’Reilly, director of the Oblate Retreat Centre in Crewe, England, for our morning prayer on this second Sunday of Christmas and the first Sunday of this year 2022. The Feast of the Epiphany is celebrated today in some parts of the world. Today we are reminded that with the...

We join Fr Ray Warren OMI, director of the De Mazenod House Retreat and Spirituality Centre, London once more for our New Year’s Day reflection and prayer to begin this year of 2022 on the celebration of Mary the Mother of God. The shepherds hurried away to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph, and the...

Friends, today is the final day of 2021. It’s been a tumultuous year for many of us. As we ponder over our past twelve months, we join Fr Ray Warren for a short time of prayer, contemplation and reflection in front of the nativity scene in DeMazenod House, Retreat and Spirituality Centre, Tower Hill, London....