On the feast of Saint Aidan of Iona and Lindisfarne, join Pádraigín Clancy of St Michael’s, Inchicore for our morning prayer. As Pope Francis says, let’s not go around with funerial faces, let’s look and act as if the Resurrection happened! Today is a day of hope, we embrace the hope of the Resurrection in...

Join Fr Dominik in Bluebell again this morning for our prayer and reflection. In today’s gospel Jesus rebukes Peter for his dismay at what would befall him in Jerusalem. Peter had been with Jesus long enough to know that being a disciple meant risking people’s scorn and misunderstanding. Jesus told Peter that anyone who wanted...

August 29th: Today is the memorial of the beheading of Saint John the Baptist. Join Fr Dominik in Bluebell, Dublin, for prayer and reflection this morning. “When he had heard him speak he was greatly perplexed, and yet he liked to listen to him.” (Mark 6:17-29) What was it about John the Baptist that was...

Today is the feast day of Saint Augustine of Hippo. Join Fr Eduardo for our short prayer this morning as we pray and reflect together on the parable Jesus presents to us in today’s gospel reading from St Matthew – the parable of the ten bridesmaids. A call to truly live out our faith in...

August 27th: Join a group of young friends from Dublin for our morning prayer, reflection and song, today we reflect in a short conversation on today’s gospel reading. Today is also the feast of Saint Monica – an early African Christian saint and the mother of St. Augustine of Hippo. Enjoy this morning’s prayer and...

August 26th: Join with Eileen McLaughlin in Towerhill, London, a member of the Friends of Saint Eugene, for a short prayer on this the feast day of Blessed Dominic Barbieri an Italian theologian and a member of the Passionist Congregation prominent in spreading Catholicism in England. He contributed to the conversion of John Henry Newman. 

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! … You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!” – Today’s gospel offers us an opportunity to think about our day – Lord guide us to notice what upsets us and what we neglect. Join Fr Michael O’Connor OMI in Darndale for our short prayer this morning.

Today is the feast of Saint Bartholomew – it is thought that he was also known by the name of Nathanael whom we hear about in today’s gospel reading (John 1:45-5). Fr Martin adds a short reflection on this piece of scripture in this morning’s prayer for August 24th.   

This Sunday morning, we gather with Fr Martin Moran OMI from the Oblate parish of St Mary’s, Star of the Sea in Leith, outside of Edinburgh, Scotland. Martin invites us to reflect on today’s Gospel (Mt 16:13-20). And in this Gospel, we hear Jesus ask his disciples: “But you, who do you say that I...

Mary reflects on the message from today’s Gospel (Mt 23:1-12) and how we must be wary of those whose message is one of hypocrisy, “You must therefore do and observe what they tell you; but do not be guided by what they do, since they do not practise what they preach.” She quotes a line...