The Immaculate Conception helps us prepare our hearts to welcome Jesus as Mary did. She shows us how God comes close to us and dwells within us. A meditation by Fr Pat Gorevan.
In the Gospel of the first Sunday of Advent, Jesus instructs his listeners to stay awake. We must approach the coming feast of the Nativity of Christ with a spirit of wakeful vigilance – fostering an interior recollectedness even if externally we are surrounded by premature celebrations of Christmas.
The Kingdom of God is among us in a powerful and transformative way through the life of grace. How we do mental prayer greatly affects our welcoming of the Kingdom within us. A meditation by Fr Donncha O hAodha on the Feast of Christ the King
As we look on, apparently helpless, as terrible wars take place in the Ukraine and in Israel, the Feast of All Saints reminds that, in the words of St Josemaria, "these world crises are crises of saints".
The life and ministry of St John Paul II was immensely fruitful because he was steeped in the mystery of Christ the Redeemer of man. We can thank God for the great gift of St John Paul and we can imitate his immersion in Christ our Saviour. This meditation is by Fr Donncha O hAodha in memory of St John Paul II, whose memorial would normally be celebrated on 22 October. This year it falls on Mission Sunday.
The Rosary enables us to join the Apostles in the Upper Room with Mary the Mother of Jesus and experience the mysteries of his life. A meditation by Fr Pat Gorevan for the feast of the Holy Rosary, 7 October.
On the 2nd October 1928 God showed St Josemaria Escriva that ordinary laymen and women had to "launch out into the deep" - to seek the heights of holiness in their everyday lives, and not to be content to stay in the shallows where there are no difficulties, no dangers, and no fish.
Today we commemorate the Archangels Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, spiritual messengers and servants of God. Let’s invoke their intercession in our prayer before Christ our Lord, who is the Centre of the angelic world and who at the same time is so close to us precisely through his angels. A meditation by Fr James Hurley, Parish Priest of Our Lady Queen of Peace, Merrion Road, Dublin.
The vocation of St Matthew can inspire us to give ourselves completely to God, here and now, and to savour the gift of our vocation
The feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross reminds us of the source of our salvation and how we may participate in it by our own awareness of our closeness to Christ when we carry his Cross.
Humility is a virtue that liberates us from the vice that most inhibits us and causes us to suffer needlessly: pride. In this meditation we learn how to pray for this liberation. A meditation by Fr Gavan Jennings.
What can we learn from the example of Nathanael, in whom there was no deceit. A meditation on passing on the good news we have discovered to others. Given by Fr Tom Dowd.
In this month we have celebrated several feasts which emphasise Our Lady’s heavenly queenship. This glory of Mary in no way distances her from is. On the contrary. Her closeness to us is a model for those virtues which are particularly important in friendship and apostolate at this time. A meditation from Fr Donncha O hAodha
The Assumption of Our Lady encourages us to live, as she did, in the mystery of Christ, in the hope of sharing with her in His resurrection. A meditation from Fr Pat Gorevan.
The Memorial of Sts Martha, Mary and Lazarus reminds us of the contemplative spirit with which ordinary everyday deeds of service can help us deepen our friendship with Christ. A meditation by Fr James Hurley.
St Mary Magdalene is a great Apostle of Apostles because she realises the greatness of our Lord’s mercy for her. To share the Faith we don’t need to be “perfect” but what matters is to try to be close to Jesus. A meditation by Fr Donncha O hAodha.
The readings at Mass of 15th Sunday of the liturgical year help us meditate on Mary’s role in salvation history, recalling that in other years this day is the feast of Our Lady of Mt Carmel. A meditation by Fr Pat Gorevan.
God cannot force us to love; He must win our love from us and He does this by manifesting to us His great love for us. A meditation by Fr Gavan Jennings.
The call to holiness is sublime and practical. The “saint of ordinary life” reminds us of this reality. Holiness is divine and human as is our Lord Jesus in the reality of his Incarnation. A meditation for the feast of St Josemaria Escriva, Founder of Opus Dei, by Fr Donncha O hAodha.
St John’s description of Christ’s washing of the feet of his disciples on Holy Thursday helps us to understand the tremendous love and humility underlying Christ’s desire to remain for us in the Holy Eucharist.
The feast of the Blessed Trinity allows us to reflect on the source of the mysteries we have celebrated at Easter and Pentecost and to realise that our destiny is to ‘share in the divine nature’ (2 Pet 1:5). A meditation by Fr Pat Gorevan
The whole of the liturgical season of Easter prepares us to celebrate Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit who reveals God, who disposes us to welcome the Word of God in faith. A meditation by Fr James Hurley.
The Feast of the Ascension shows us that Christ goes before us to be our hope and enables us to follow him and find him in everything we do. A meditation by Fr Pat Gorevan.
Our Lady of Fatima evokes the Woman clothed with the sun in the Book of Revelation. She brings forth Christ who is in Himself our peace. We ask to be filled with peace and joy and to share with others, like a great river of peace in history. A meditation from Fr Donncha O hAodha.
In this meditation, Fr Gavan Jennings explores several features of any given working day in the life of St Joseph who's feast day we celebrate traditionally on May 1st.
The Second Sunday of Easter, designated by St. John Paul II as Divine Mercy Sunday is a day when the Church encourages to give thanks and to deepen our appreciation of divine mercy and how mercifully God relates to us. This is illustrated by Sunday's gospel which describes how Jesus helped the apostle Thomas over his unbelief and made an important act of faith. A great way for us to show our appreciation of God’s mercy is by our approaching the Sacrament of Penance with as deep sorrow as grace p...
As we join with the disciples in celebrating the Resurrection, we ask that it shed its light on all mankind and on each of our lives. A meditation by Fr Pat Gorevan
At the Last Supper Jesus gave us himself in the Eucharist and the means to renew its celebration through the institution of the priesthood. Each of us are called to invite others too to share in this Banquet of Love. A meditation by Fr James Hurley.
Palm Sunday marks the beginning of the one week in the year we call "holy". We want to approach the events of Holy Week as participants – real friends of Jesus – in events that are really happening "now", and not as "historical" events that properly belong to the past. A meditation by Fr Gavan Jennings.
The anniversary of Saint Josemaria's ordination as a priest gives us the opportunity to reflect on the role of prayer in his life and also how Saint Josemaria became a great teacher of prayer, from whom we can draw inspiration for our own prayer life. A meditation by Fr James Hurley
