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The Oblate Family Morning Prayer: Monday 17th March 2025

With Caroline Shevelan

Good morning, welcome to our Oblate Family Morning Prayer this week. Today we join Caroline Shevelan from her home in Cumbria, on Monday 17th March 2025, the 2nd Week in Lent, the feast day of Saint Patrick.

‘Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate..’

Caroline reflects:  “What stands out for me is the word compassion. It is a curious juxtaposition to have this reading of compassion, an abundant blessing, and a time where we fast, where we turn away from the abundance to some degree, from the things that contact us in order to focus on God. We associate Lent with the wilderness. The wilderness is not a compassionate place in my imagination. “

Thank you for joining us for morning prayer today!