Miriam O’Callaghan RTÉ star Miriam O’Callaghan has said she regularly lights a candle in her local church on the way home from her morning radio show, and prays often to the Virgin Mary.
In an interview in the Sunday Independent published over the weekend Ms O’Callaghan said she didn’t always have the habit of lighting a candle, but that it started while attending a funeral.
She said: “People write me letters and they tell me things that are happening in their lives, and I can’t do much.
“I don’t know if lighting them a candle makes any impact, but I feel it’s something I can do, and it doesn’t cost me any time or effort to spend two minutes lighting a candle for someone.
Also, if something was troubling me or I was worried about a friend or one of my children or someone in Steve’s family, I’d just light a candle.”
Ms O’Callaghan added she prays the Memorare while she does this.