A Moment To Pause: Lent - Monday 16th March 2026

Good morning and thank you for joining the Oblate Family Podcast: A Moment To Pause, for today's time of reflection and prayer during Lent. We listen to Fr Dermot for today's short 90 second podcast. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this, little reflection we have today on Monday, the fourth week of Lent. My name is Father Dermot. I'm an Oblate, and I be with you this week. So in John's Gospel today, we read of the court official who came to Jesus seeking help for his dying son. And then when he was doing this, a messenger from his home tells him his son has died. And yet Jesus tells him, your son will live. What a relief. What a joy, what a burden lifted off for this distraught father. Your son will live. How many mothers and fathers of children killed in Ukraine, Russia, Palestine, Israel, the West Bank, Iran, Sudan and so on, how many will never hear those words? Your son., your daughter will live.They'll never hear them. We pray now for the thousands of children killed, some of them murdered in the wars that are taking place in our broken world. And for their grieving mums and dads and brothers and sisters. May Jesus, the God of comfort and tenderness, make himself known to their families. Let's just be silent for a while.... In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.