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Advent, a time of Hope: Daily Morning Prayer and Reflection, December 11th
Friends, good morning. We join Heidi Schofield in Trearddur Bay, Anglesey for our prayer today, We are about halfway through Advent. Many of us will be bringing out our cribs and dusting off nativity scenes, getting them ready for the approaching feast. However, in the gospel today, Jesus warns us that suffering is part of...
Advent, a time of Hope: Daily Morning Prayer and Reflection, December 10th
Today is the feast day of Our Lady of Loreto and this morning we join Fr Irvin of St Mary’s, Star of the Sea in Leith, for morning prayer once again. Jesus and John represent the necessary dispositions with which one is to welcome the Kingdom of God and become part of it. John represents...
Advent, a time of Hope: Daily Morning Prayer and Reflection, December 9th
Today is the feast day of Saint Juan Diego, the visionary of the Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. We join Fr Irvin of St Mary’s, Star of the Sea in Leith for morning prayer. We pray with John the Baptist that truth and justice may continue to prevail in our world. We pray with...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family – Wednesday December 8th, Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Today, as we continue in our preparation for Christmas, we reflect on the great mystery of the Incarnation; when God, the creator of the whole universe, brought his Son, Jesus, into the world, through Mary’s “Yes”. The Word becomes flesh, what a hope this is for all of us! One message we could take from...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family – Tuesday December 7th, 2nd Week of Advent
Dear friends, today we invite you to pray with Lisa and Donncha in Dublin for a short time on this Tuesday December 7th in the 2nd week of our Advent journey as we prepare for the great celebration of the birth of Jesus. Today’s gospel reading is really powerful – showing how Jesus will always...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family – Monday December 6th, 2nd Week of Advent
Good Morning. Ros Appleby is praying with each one of us again today from her home in Birkenhead, England. Ros reflects this morning on the story in today’s gospel where we see a paralysed man with determined friends comes before Jesus. The faith of the man and his friends was inspirational. If we were there,...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family – Sunday December 5th, 2nd Sunday of Advent
Good Morning. Ros Appleby is praying with each one of us this second Sunday of Advent from her home in England as she reflects on the scripture readings of today. In last Sunday’s gospel we hear that we must stay awake and be ready to welcome Christ, and that we have to grow up a...
Advent, a time of Hope: Daily Morning Prayer and Reflection, December 4th
Dear friends, join Gerard Bennett of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team in Westmeath for today’s morning prayer for Advent. Jesus felt sorry for the people he met in todays gospel – they were like ‘sheep without a shepherd’ – it was an emotional response. Jesus reacts in many gospel stories in an emotional way. Jesus...
Advent, a time of Hope: Daily Morning Prayer and Reflection, December 3rd
Dear friends, join Gerard Bennett of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team in Westmeath for today’s morning prayer for Advent. Jesus was on a journey. We don’t know how long that journey was. The blind men who were following Jesus must have found this journey very difficult. They persisted, and pleaded with Jesus. This reminds us...
Advent, a time of Hope: Daily Morning Prayer and Reflection, December 2nd
Friends, join Mary O’Brien of the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage Team in Dublin for today’s morning prayer for Advent. Today’s gospel could be a clear example that points to the saying action speak louder than words. Jesus doesn’t just want us to give lip service to prayer. Prayer just by itself can be a bit like...
