Join with Srs Noreen, Lumay, and Anne, of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary from Clontarf, Dublin, as they lead us in our Morning Prayer today, the feast of St Thomas. The Sisters focus on the opening phrase in the Gospel from St Mark: “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creation,”...

Join Sr Máire Hearty from Darndale – Belcamp for Morning Prayer this Friday morning, July 2 In today’s Gospel (Mt 9:9-13), Jesus goes to the home of the tax collector to eat. No doubt, if Jesus were to come to our home, it would be to the best room with everything neatly in its place....

Join with Fr Michael O’Connor OMI for morning prayer on Thursday, July 1 Fr Michael prays with us from the garden of the Oblate community home in Darndale-Belcamp parish in Dublin’s northside. Quoting from St Columbanus, Michael says: “If you want to know the Creator, get to know creation.” In the wake of Pope Francis’...

Join with Fr Eduardo Nunez, OMI from Darndale Belcamp in Dublin for our Morning Prayer In today’s Gospel (Mt 8:28-34), Jesus is confronted by the demoniacs, after the crossing the Sea of Galilee with his disciples. Most of us probably have demons in our lives; what are they, can we recall and name our demons?...

Join Olga Slater as she leads us in Morning Prayer for Tuesday, June 29 On this, the Feast of Ss Peter and Paul, twin founders of the Church in Rome, and beloved apostles of Jesus, Olga asks to think of the significance of these two men, that we would remember them by this solemnity almost...

Olga Slater from London leads us in our Morning Prayer today, Monday. Olga reflects on today’s short Gospel story (Mt 8:18-22).”Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” Following Jesus does not comes with promises of comfort in this life but...

Join with Rosemary Gillen who leads our Morning Prayer today, Saturday. Rosemary reflects on today’s Gospel (from St Mark, Chapter 5, verses 21 thru 43), that speaks of the faith of the woman who touched Jesus’s cloak, having that faith to know that this act alone would heal her. Rosemary encourages us, as the signs...

Join Anthony today from Leith where he reflects on the encounter of Jesus with the centurion whose faith was such that he only needed to hear the words of healing to know that his servant was healed.  Later Jesus touched the hand of Peter’s mother-in-law who had a fever, and she too was healed.  Healing...

On the occasion of the First World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly, Pope Francis grants Plenary Indulgences to grandparents, the elderly and all the faithful who participate “motivated by a true spirit of penance and charity.” From www.vaticannews.va   In a note released on Tuesday, The Apostolic Penitentiary explains that “in order to increase the...

Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family – Friday June 25th. We join Joyce Fegan in the Oblate Parish of St Mary’s Star of the Sea, in Leith, Edinburgh. ‘Sir,’ he said ‘if you want to, you can cure me.’ Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him and said, ‘Of course I want to! Be cured!’...