Friends, join Fr Michaell Brady OMI in St Michael’s Dublin for today’s morning prayer for Advent. Today’s gospel is a long list of the genealogy of Jesus from the Gospel of St Matthew. This is also a beautiful introduction to Matthew’s Gospel, which is a gospel of the presence and the mercy of God in...

ADVENT & THE SYNOD OF THE WHOLE CHURCH Communion – Participation – Mission Tuesday 30th November – A time to Listen Tuesday 7th December – A time to Dream Tuesday 14th December – A time to Journey Tuesday 21st December – A time to Witness   As the faithful People of God, during this Season...

By now, many of us will have dusted off, reassembled, rebuilt and tidied up our Christmas nativity scene or crib in our homes, schools, parishes or places of work. 

Or perhaps you have made a new one, or began a new tradition with something a bit different. This ancient tradition, which began when St Francis...

We join Frank MacDonald who works with the Oblate Lourdes Pilgrimage for today’s Daily Morning Prayer and Reflection, December 16th. Christmas time is a great time, especially for children. Thinking back to childhood, remember that sense of delight on receipt of even the smallest of gifts. Thinking of all the things we have received, don’t...

We join Frank in Scotland for today’s morning prayer. We all wait for and anticipate a happy event of some kind, a homecoming, or the birth of a child. At this time, we are preparing and waiting for an event with all these rolled into one. While times are difficult, and we may be separated...

Advent, a time of Hope: Daily Morning Prayer and Reflection, December 14th We join Angela in London for today’s morning prayer. God does not judge us for who we are but for what we do. Our actions speak louder than our words. It is not enough to proclaim our good intentions but we need to...

Friends, good morning. We join Heidi Schofield in Trearddur Bay, Anglesey for our prayer today. Mark Twain once said “It’s not the bits of the bible I don’t understand that give me trouble, it’s the bits I do!” In today’s gospel it is made absolutely clear what we should do. Heidi shares a reflection on...

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...

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...

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...