A Moment To Pause: Monday 29th June 2026

You are welcome to the reflection today with Mary O'Brien from our Lourdes Team in Dublin. Good morning and welcome to our Oblate morning time of reflection.  We begin in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.  Today’s Gospel is from Matthew 16:13-19  In this text Jesus puts the question to Simon Peter ‘who do you say I am?’ and Peter answered: ‘You are the Christ, son of the living God? Peter’s answer came from his faith in Jesus and his witness of the works of Jesus. I wonder what I might say?   I’m a practising Catholic, I’ve read scripture and learned of the work of Jesus. But is it just a book I’ve read, or stories I’ve heard.   Only faith…an honest faith that is based on a personal relationship with Jesus allows me, without any doubt, to say like Peter – You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.    We pray:  Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end, Amen.