A Moment To Pause: Lent - Tuesday 17th 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 today we have Saint Patrick. Patrick, 16 years of age, kidnapped by raiders from Ireland, torn from his family, friends, places he knew and loved in his homeland in Britain. He ended up on a remote mountain in the then wilds of Ireland, looking after sheep. And it was during his years there as a virtual slave, that he rediscovered God. And he eventually returned to Ireland to make God known to the Irish people. And though this terrified youngster Patrick, Saint Patrick is celebrated worldwide. How ironic that Patrick, a trafficked illegal immigrant, is celebrated each year in a country that's now determined to expel from its borders all foreign migrants. We pray for all those who have to leave their homelands to seek a safer and better life for themselves and their families. May Saint Patrick make himself known to them. Will be silent for a few moments. In the name of the father, and of the son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen