Good morning friends. We invite you to join Jason O’Reilly, who works with Kairos Community Trust in London, for our morning prayer. The prominent theme for today’s reading and the relatively short chapters of the Book of Joel is one of repentance, the power of prayer and fasting, and a warning from God through Joel...

Good morning friends. We invite you to join Martina Cooley, who works with Kairos Community Trust in London, for our morning prayer. So today’s gospel really reminded Martina of her own journey back into faith and the struggles she faced along the way, as many do before coming into Kairos Community Trust, she says she...

INTRODUCTION TO THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL REFLECTION It is not possible, I think, to begin a reflection on a Gospel about the coming of the ‘Kingdom of God’ without acknowledging the intense suffering and the terrible tragedy presently afflicting God’s own people of Israel and the Palestinian people who have long shared that land. I can...

Good morning friends. We invite you to join Jason O’Reilly ,who works with Kairos Community Trust in London, for our morning prayer. In today’s gospel reading, the apostle James mentions that the earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. God certainly does not tire of our persistence, quite the...

We join the Oblate parish of St Joseph’s, Colwyn Bay in North Wales for our morning prayer. Today’s prayer is presented by David and Iola. Prayer is a personal conversation with God and a means of developing a meaningful relationship with the God of the universe. It is how he can work miracles in our...

Dear friends, please join with Pauline Thomas on the isle of Anglesey for a short reflection on Jesus’ encounter with Martha and Mary. ‘Martha, Martha,’ he said ‘you worry and fret about so many things, and yet few are needed, indeed only one. It is Mary who has chosen the better part; it is not...

Join Pat again this morning in Birkenhead, England for our short time of prayer and faith on the feast day of John Henry Newman, patron saint of students. Join Pat in a short reflection on Psalm 111 which describes our covenant with God – a two-way agreement between God and his people. “He set his...

8th October 2023 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time A(I) “Responsibility for your Vocation” In that last part of the Gospel, when Jesus speaks about “the stone rejected by the builders that became the keystone,” he implores us personally not to repeat the same mistake from the past! He, as the keystone, the cornerstone, has not...

Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary Join Pauline Thomas in Anglesey for our morning prayer on this feast day of Mary. She offers a beautiful reflection focusing on our mother Mary. ‘Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God’s favour. Listen! You are to conceive and bear a son, and you must name...

Good morning once again dear friends. Today we join Fr Terry Murray from Sacred Heart Parish in Quex Road, London.   Today Terry talks us through the story which inspired the creation of an icon created by a friend of the Quex Road community, Fr Jacob, which is proudly displayed within the Sacred Heart Church. This...