Pope Francis will preside at the Requiem Mass of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Thursday 5th January. The Mass can be watched live from 8.30am here:  The Booklet for the Funeral can be downloaded here https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/libretti/2023/20230105-libretto-esequie-sepoltura_pont-emerito.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1o8PfJ9_GlHCFDUbDQQl_1j9uIMqI5PIUD1z_xrmDZ6kgo4Bgg4uCNVu4

Good morning friends. We invite you to join James, from London, for morning prayer today. According to his secretary, Archbishop George Ganswein, Pope Benedict’s final words before he died were, “Jesus, ich liebe dich” – “Jesus, I love you”, in English. At the end of the day, that’s what it’s all about. Whilst it’s good...

Good morning friends. We invite you to join Jason O’Reilly, of the Kairos Community Trust, for morning prayer today. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of John, where John the Baptist testifies about Jesus. John was sent to the world, so that the world could repent and prepare for the arrival of Jesus. As John...

Good morning friends. We invite you to join Jason O’Reilly, of the Kairos Community Trust, for morning prayer today. Today’s reading is from the Gospel of John, as recounts the time when John the Baptist was questioned by the Jewish leaders about who he was. John declared boldly and with humility that he was not...

Good morning friends. We invite you to join Fr Oliver Barry OMI, Province Leader of the Oblates of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the district of Denmark, for our morning prayer today. Today is the 1st of January, the feast of Mary, the mother of God, Father Chicho, the new Superior General of the Oblates...

Good morning friends. We invite you to join Sr Lumay Thomas Oblate Parish of Darndale-Belcamp, for our morning prayer today. John is a witness to the light. We are children of God who are promised new life by Jesus, who revealed the father’s love to us. The invitation is to welcome him in a world...

Good morning friends. We invite you to join Br Simon and Br Martin of the Presentation Brothers once again for our morning prayer today. There’s a lot in our gospel texts today about dreams and God speaking through dreams. We must ask ourselves how God speaks to us in our lives today, and who have...

Good morning friends. We invite you to join Br Simon and Br Martin of the Presentation Brothers, for our morning prayer today. In the wonderful account of the presentation of the Lord in Luke’s Gospel reading from today’s mass, we find a great challenge for ourselves to do. How do we present the norms in...

Good morning friends. We invite you to join Fr Eduardo Nunez OMI in the Oblate Parish of Darndale-Belcamp, for our morning prayer today. We often see Christmas in a very romantic way. And today’s gospel shows the other side of the coin. The first Christmas, the biblical one, was anything but pleasant and sentimental. A...

Good morning friends. We invite you to join Br Barry Noel who is a member of the Presentation Brothers community, for our morning prayer today. If we try to understand Christmas outside the event of the resurrection, we shall remain in the dark! The resurrection of Jesus from the dead helps us to see more...