A Moment To Pause: Tuesday 30th 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 time of Reflection.  In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen.  Today’s gospel is from Matthew 8:23-27  This is the gospel where Jesus and his disciples are in a boat.  A storm breaks over the lake.  The boat is tossed from side to side, and the disciples are terrified, fearing for their lives.  Jesus sleeps through it all.  They wake him up, and ask him to save them. “Save us Lord, we are going down”.  For me, this is the interesting sentence – though he rebukes them and says ‘you men of little faith’, I notice they didn’t just say ‘what can we do?’ they said ‘Save us Lord ‘   There is faith in that, even though they did fear they would drown.   When we’re lost and overwhelmed, and we’re full of doubts, all we need at times is that smidgen of faith to ask Jesus to be with us.  That is enough.  Lord, we pray, our faith is known to you and we ask that you hear our prayers as we begin this new day.   Through Christ our Lord, Amen.