A Chat with Bishop Edwin #jpic Part One on the Joy of Creation “Joy is contagious is a very good disease to have! The only way we can spread joy is to be joyful ourselves.” We welcome Bishop Edwin Regan who, for 17 years, was the Bishop of Wrexham in North Wales, and we look...

Good morning everyone, and welcome to morning prayer. The Oblate Camino de Santiago group has arrived at the cathedral of St. James in the city of Santiago de Compostela, in Spain. Hear them reflect on their experience and the Gospel. Thank you for joining us in prayer today.

Join Mary Ann who is on the Camino de Santiago with the Oblate group who have been walking for five days so far and are looking forward to coming to the end of this trip when they reach the famous Cathedral of St James in the City of Santiago de Compostella in Spain.  

Good morning everyone, and welcome to morning prayer with Sara and friends, from Singles for Christ Community, in Scotland. In today’s reading, we see that Jesus has revealed Himself again to His disciples. The word “again” stands out in this reading. The fact is that this is only one of the many occasions wherein Jesus...

Good morning everyone, and welcome to morning prayer with the Sanchez family, from Edinburgh. Reflecting on the Gospel reading today, the Sanchez family says that what strikes them are the doubts of the disciples when Jesus appeared to them after the resurrection. Doubts can happen, and will happen, to each and every one of us...

Good morning everyone, and welcome to morning prayer with Fr Dermot Mills. Today, we re-share Fr Dermot’s reflection from last Easter Wednesday, which is from the Acts of the Apostles, where Peter and John order the lame man to get up and walk, in Jesus’ name. “… but Peter said, ‘I have neither silver nor...

Thomas Enda (Tom) O’Shea was born in Dublin on 29 December 1938 to parents who were both teachers from West Kerry. Tom grew up in an Irish-speaking home, first in Sutton and then in Clontarf, closer to his parents’ work in City centre schools. He was six when the family moved to Clontarf. A long...

Good morning everyone, and welcome to morning prayer with the Manuel family. Our readers today state that the death of Mary Magdalene’s great friend prompts her to lose her sense of life. But she does not give up her search. She goes to the tomb in order to meet again the one whom death has...

Dear friends, please join Fr Irvin for a short reflection on Easter Monday – where we hear in the gospel that the first to meet the Risen Lord were the holy women of Jerusalem and they were filled with awe and great joy. Please also join us in wishing Fr Irvin a very happy birthday!

Good morning everyone, and welcome to morning prayer with Joanne Lanigan, from Dublin. On this wonderful Easter morning, it is great to be together, to pray for each other, to praise God and to share our faith. May we have the same sense of the joy that the first disciples had, the sense of not...