Good morning, friends, and welcome to this morning’s prayer from Saint Joseph’s Parish here in Colwyn Bay. We join Brother Carl and reflect on the gospel reading from today’s mass. Today’s reading is a most profound gospel with which to begin our day. This gospel calls to mind a saying that is attributed to Pope...

Gospel Reflection for Sunday July 23rd 2023 Good people want to do good. It’s the most natural thing in the world. We educate our children not to be selfish or mean, not to be aggressive or rude, not to be proud or arrogant. As our children grow we gently but repeatedly reinforce the values and...

Recently, the Anglesey Island Mission Group and all of the Parish Councillors from the three parish areas on the island (Amlwch/Benllech, Beaumaris/Llangefni, Holyhead/Rhosneigr,), met on Sunday 11th June 2023 in Oriel Môn; an art gallery and museum located in the middle of the island of Anglesey which allows for venue hire. Others from the six...

We join John in Colwyn Bay, North Wales for our prayer today. Today’s reading calls us to reflect on how there is no doubt we would all prefer a life without trouble, stress, anxiety or worries. But as we know, this is never the case. However, through our faith and prayer, Jesus promises that we are...

We join Iola in Colwyn Bay, North Wales for our prayer today. Friends, today we reflect on how God calls us by our name and we each are called for a special purpose and a special mission, just like Jeremiah in today’s reading. We may respond just like Jeremiah did. We might say that we are...

We join Fr Vimal OMI and Carl Peter OMI in Colwyn Bay, North Wales for our prayer today. Friends, today we have a very challenging gospel, contentious and difficult to justify because we see a dimension to Jesus’s public persona that we don’t read very often. And the anger, that anger with others. And this can...

Dear friends, we join Fr Frank Ryan OMI in Colwyn Bay, North Wales for our prayer today. We hear about many problems in the ancient scripture readings, but if you step back and look at the content of what these inspired books are telling us, the same problems are going on today. The same kind...

Good morning dear friends, and welcome to this Sunday July 16th morning prayer with Fr Frank Ryan OMI who is based in Colwyn Bay in North Wales. Our scripture readings are really a love story. A love story that is ongoing, a love story between the divine and each one of us who are created...

Good morning everyone and welcome again to the Morning Prayer which is being led by members of St Joseph’s, Colwyn Bay an Oblate parish in North Wales. Today we join Wendy Spillane once more for our time of prayer together. The gospel of today is part of Jesus’ instructions to his followers as they set...

Gospel Reflection for Sunday July 16th 2023 “Hey, did you hear the one about…..” or “that reminds me of the two men going into a pub….”! All of us know people who have the knack of telling jokes so that when the punchline comes everyone laughs. Maybe you are one of those people? I’m not,...