morning prayer
Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Monday August 22nd
Dear friends, good morning and welcome to today’s morning prayer on Monday August 22nd. We invite you to join Jason O’Reilly, of the Kairos Community Trust, for a few moments of prayer and reflection together. Today’s reading comes from Saint Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians. We can see great hope in their unwavering faith in...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates: Sunday August 21st
Dear friends, good morning and welcome to today’s morning prayer on Sunday August 21st. We invite you to join Dominic, of the Kairos Community Trust and Oblates Lourdes Pilgrimage Team, for a few moments of prayer and reflection together. Today’s reading comes from Hebrews. Dominic talks about his past with addiction and the effects it...
Morning Prayer with the Oblates: August 20th
Dear friends, good morning and welcome to today’s morning prayer on Saturday August 20th. We invite you to join Mossie Lyons, Director of the Kairos Community Trust, for a few moments of prayer and reflection together. Today’s reading comes from the Gospel according to Matthew and has a focus on humility. We are asked to...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: Tuesday August 16th
Good morning friends, today we join Kirk Jacob of the Oblate Partners in Mission Team in Lourdes for morning prayer. The theme of today’s prayer is the invitation to be an ‘Anawim’. The anawim of the Old Testament were the poor of every sort: the vulnerable, the marginalized, and socio-economically oppressed, those of lowly status...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: Monday August 15th
Good morning, everyone! Today, we join Kay Curran, of the Oblates Lourdes Pilgrimage Team, for our morning prayer together. Today’s Gospel reading is from Luke, and is Mary’s Magnificat. The reading is full of reflection on what makes Mary great in the eyes of God. Our lives can be full with doubt, difficulty, suffering and...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family: Sunday August 14th
Good morning, everyone! Today, we join Kay Curran, of the Oblates Lourdes Pilgrimage Team, for our morning prayer together. Today’s Gospel reading is from Hebrews. Thank you for joining us this morning.
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, August 7th
Good morning, everyone! Today, we join Heidi Schofield, from Holyhead, for our morning prayer together. Today’s Gospel reading is from Luke, in which Jesus tells his followers that for those to whom much has been given, much will be expected. Heidi then goes on to quote C. S. Lewis, from his book ‘Mere Christianity’, on...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, August 6th
Good morning, everyone! Today, we join Heidi Schofield, from Holyhead, for our morning prayer together. Today’s Gospel reading is from Luke, and is of the transfiguration of Jesus. May we someday see the splendor of Jesus as Peter, John and James did on top of the mountain. Perhaps we’d react in a similar way to...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, August 4th
Good morning, everyone! Today, we join Pádraig Corcoran, a Youth Worker from Inchicore, Dublin, for our morning prayer together. Today’s Gospel reading is from Matthew, when Jesus asks his disciples who he is. Peter answers correctly, that he is the Messiah, the Son of the Living God. Jesus then gives Peter the keys to...
Morning Prayer with the Oblate Family, August 3rd
Good morning, everyone! Today, we join Pádraig Corcoran, a Youth Worker from Inchicore, Dublin, for our morning prayer together. Today’s Gospel reading is from Matthew, and details the time in which a Canaanite woman asks Jesus to help his daughter, who is tormented by a demon. In the end, it is her persistence and sure...