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Morning Prayer – Lourdes Novena – Day 7 February 8th
Good morning and today we once more go to Inchicore for prayer with Fr Dominik who is a member of the Inchicore Pastoral Area team. It is Day 7 of the Novena in honour of Our Lady of Lourdes and we invite you to continue to pray with us and also to send us your...
Lourdes Novena: Morning prayer
Good morning friends, we invite you to join Fr Paul Horrocks OMI at the Grotto in Inchicore for morning prayer. Fr Paul is a member of the Inchicore Pastoral Area team and worked as a Chaplain in Our Lady’s Sanctuary of Lourdes for 15 years. Fr Paul brings this morning’s prayer from the Grotto in...
Message of His Holiness Pope Francis for 31st World Day of the Sick
Dear brothers and sisters! Illness is part of our human condition. Yet, if illness is experienced in isolation and abandonment, unaccompanied by care and compassion, it can become inhumane. When we go on a journey with others, it is not unusual for someone to feel sick, to have to stop because of fatigue or of...
Morning Prayer for February 6th – Lourdes Novena: Day 5
Welcome to morning prayer, with Br Michael Moore OMI, in Wales. Today is also the fifth day of the Lourdes novena. Lourdes is a place of community and healing, and all those who go there – especially the sick – pray for healing of one sort or another. We all carry wounds from over the...
Morning Prayer for February 5th – Lourdes Novena: Day 4
Welcome to morning prayer, with Br Michael Moore OMI, in Wales. Today is also the fourth day of the Lourdes novena. In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus reminds and challenges us to be the light of the world. Light is one of the great symbols we experience in Lourdes. People light candles for their own –...
Morning Prayer for February 4th – Lourdes Novena: Day 3
Welcome to morning prayer, with Fr Terry Murray OMI, from Sacred Heart parish, in Kilburn, London. Today is also the third day of the Lourdes novena. Terry reflects on a passage from Luke, and states that Mary is a woman on the move – she’s often travelling to different places, all part of her journey...
Morning Prayer for February 3rd – Lourdes Novena: Day 2
Welcome to morning prayer today, with Fr Tom Devereux OMI, from Sacred Heart parish, in Kilburn, London. Today is also the second day of the Lourdes novena. Tom reflects on Mary being a companion on our journey, and considers the great distances that Mary had to travel during her life. How did Mary approach these...
Morning Prayer for February 2nd – Lourdes Novena: Day 1
Welcome to morning prayer today, with Fr Terry Murray OMI, from Sacred Heart parish, in Kilburn, London. Today is also the first day of the Lourdes novena. Today’s Gospel reading is from Luke, and tells of the time when Mary and Joseph took Jesus to the temple to be consecrated to God – the day...
Celebrating Our Lady of Lourdes, 2-11 February 2023
About Lourdes and the Oblate Connection The Oblate Community has a long connection with the Shrine of Our Lady in Lourdes, a small town in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains in the South West of France. In 1859, on the 11th of February, Bernadette, a 14 year old girl from the village of Lourdes,...
Morning Prayer With the Oblate Family – St Brigid’s Day, February 1st
Good morning friends. Today is the Feast Day of St Brigid of Kildare, patron saint of Ireland and also of healers; poets; blacksmiths; livestock and dairy workers. We join Joanne Lanigan in Mary Immaculate parish church, Inchicore for today’s prayer. This morning Joanne reflects on the person of Saint Brigid, of ancient miracles and religious...
