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A Moment To Pause: Thursday 2nd July 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 from Matthew 9:1-8, is the story of people bringing a paralysed man to Jesus … Jesus first tells the man his sins and forgiven, and then , despite the challenges of the scribes, tells him to ‘get up and walk’
For me the comfort here is those words ‘seeing their faith’ - the faith of the people who brought the sick man to Jesus. It wasn’t the man himself who…
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