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Mary teaches how to bake a Spring Rhubarb Galette . If you would like to follow along with the recipe, please click here. We would love to see how this recipe turns out for you! Please WhatsApp your home baking images to 089-4672000 or info@radiomaria.ie. L'articolo E25 | Let’s Bake –  Spring Rhubard Galette proviene da Radio Maria .

Fr Peter George talks about the two disciples on the Road to Emmaus and meeting the Lord after the Resurrection. Jesus walks beside them and making his presence known. The two disciples were walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus about seven miles away and discussing the recent events of the Crucifixion, they were transformed from despair […] L'articolo Catechesis – Two disciples on the Road to Emmaus -...

This week’s show opens with a report on a parish Eucharistic procession and family faith event in Cork — organized with much prayer, rewarded with sunshine that lasted exactly until the hailstones arrived after the last family had left. Margaret urges parishes to start doing things for children and teenagers, trusting that people are hungry […] L'articolo Sow and Grow – Parish Activity and the Bea...

Paul presents the second episode in his Easter series praying the Eucharistic Divine Mercy through scripture for a new Pentecost in Ireland. He opens with the question put by Pope Paul VI — “What is the greatest need of the Church?” — and his answer: her eternal Pentecost, a Church with fire in her heart, […] L'articolo Praying the Prodigals Home – Understanding Knock – Eucharistic Divine Mercy wi...

Sinead Strong hosts two guests for a conversation on weaving prayer into the demands of family life. Dr. Lynette McShane — mother of eight, sports psychologist, Neurolink practitioner, and co-founder of the Shelter Catholic Schools Retreat team — speaks about small daily anchors that ground her in faith. Morning prayer, the Angelus, the Divine Mercy […] L'articolo Catholic Mothers: Family Matters...

Eoin and Fr. Aidan Kieran shares insights on the importance of hope and charity, emphasizing their connection to God and neighbourly love. The discussion also touches on challenges in practicing charity, such as dealing with personal struggles and societal issues like addiction and corruption in charitable organizations. The hosts explore how the gifts of the […] L'articolo YouChat – How to find H...

John and Eoin take on the topic of breaking the cycle of that which binds us, such as fear and anxiety. Also how to break cycles in the family such as guilt and anger and how to change and heal from destructive tendencies. First step is naming is and the second step is to deal […] L'articolo Peace of Mind – Breaking the Cycle of Fear and Anxiety – John Farren and Eoin Brennan proviene da Radio Mar...

Fr. Peter George Flynn explores the often-overlooked world of the neophytes: the newly baptised who emerged from the Easter Vigil as members of Christ’s body after what Fr. Peter calls their passage through the cocoon of baptism. He reads closely from the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults on the post-baptismal period of mystagogy (literally, […] L'articolo Catechesis – Neophytes: The Newly B...

In this episode of “Little Big Questions” Conor age 8 from County Armagh asked Fr. Darren how to be a friend to Jesus. Fr. Darren said that the most important thing to realise is that you already are a friend to Jesus, because Jesus has chosen you and wants you to be his friend. Fr. […] L'articolo Little Big Questions – How To Be Friends With Jesus – Carmela and Fr. Darren Brennan proviene da Radi...

Fr. Adrian Crowley opens with a vivid contemplative retelling of the resurrection: the pre-dawn glory at the empty tomb, Mary Magdalene walking through Jerusalem in grief, her meeting with the risen Jesus and the single word “Mary,” then Peter and John running breathless to the cemetery. He reflects on the joy that spread through the […] L'articolo Catechesis – The Experience of the Resurrection –...

Neve Barbieri welcomes her old friend Fr. Eamonn O’Connor of Strokestown Parish, Elphin Diocese, for a warm Easter Saturday conversation. Fr. Eamonn recalls the seeds of his vocation, his grandfather’s early words, a priest visiting his secondary school classroom with a form asking who might tick the box, and his formation at Kilteagan and Maynooth, […] L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – The Call of O...

Mary Hooton and Fr. Eamonn McCarthy reflect on the Gospel for Divine Mercy Sunday (John 20:19–31), opening with a reminder of the extraordinary graces available through the Divine Mercy novena and confession before the feast. Fr. Eamonn maps the passage within John’s Gospel as a whole — tracing the journey from the Prologue through Cana, […] L'articolo Gospel Tidings – Divine Mercy Sunday: Thomas,...

Fr. Eamonn McCarthy and Matthias Conroy begin a new document after completing Dilexi Te, Pope Leo XIV’s message for the 60th World Day of Social Communications, titled Preserving Human Voices and Faces. Matthias opens by drawing on his own philosophy thesis on the metaphysics of sound to illuminate the document’s remarkable starting point — that […] L'articolo Pope Leo on AI: World Communications...

Fr. Peter George Flynn welcomes Radio Maria Ireland President John Carlin for a special Catechesis update on the station’s growth and mission. John shares encouraging figures: nearly 60,000 unique streaming devices, up 4% year on year, with Saorview listenership estimated to bring total reach to around 120,000 devices across 146 countries. He discusses the investment […] L'articolo Catechesis – Li...

Fr Robert explores the joy of the Octave of Easter for Pioneers through reflections, Sacred music and prayer. L'articolo Pioneer Hour – The Octave of Easter – Fr Robert McCabe proviene da Radio Maria .

Deacon Thady welcomes Deacon Wally Calabrese from Havelock, North Carolina, whose book on the permanent diaconate has been generating wide feedback from deacons across the United States and internationally. Wally describes his background: a blue-collar family from Utica, Michigan, drifting from the Church after Confirmation and the Marine Corps, until his wife Amy brought him […] L'articolo RM Bre...

Mary Stenson opens with reflections on Frank Duff’s life and death. At 91, Frank gave a lecture the week he died, going to a legionary’s funeral on his last day, and was found peacefully before the Sacred Heart picture that now hangs in Concilium. She shares news of the growing number of young catechumens entering […] L'articolo All Things Legion – Ireland’s Newest Venerable: Fr Edward Joseph Flan...

Carmela welcomes John Key, founder of Summer Madness, Ireland’s largest interdenominational Christian youth festival, now in its fortieth year. John describes his own teenage encounter with God in Lurgan through a charismatic town-hall mission, his theology degree at Queen’s, five years as a youth worker, and a decade as All-Ireland youth officer for the Church […] L'articolo Northern Soul – Summe...

Aidan Byrne presents solo this week while Deacon Don is on pilgrimage in Medjugorje. He continues the series on the cardinal virtues, arriving at temperance, the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created goods. Drawing on Catechism articles 1804, 1784, 1785 and 1809, he unpacks temperance […] L'articolo The Healing Power of the Sacraments –...

Fr. Peter George Flynn presents a delightful and erudite Catechesis on the many names given to the Sunday that closes the Easter Octave. He traces the origins of each: Low Sunday (the Great Sunday’s modest echo); Dominica in Albis (named not after the alb of a painting but after the white baptismal garments the newly […] L'articolo Catechesis – Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan on public display of Faith...

This programme explores how the seven deadly sins still shape our daily lives in work, family, and personal relationships. It examines how pride, greed, envy, anger, lust, gluttony and sloth quietly influence modern pressures and decision-making. Listeners are invited to reflect on the deeper human desire for perfect love, goodness and happiness that lies behind these struggles. The […] L'articolo...

Donal O’Sullivan-Latchford and Fr. Eamonn McCarthy open this Easter week edition by completing unfinished business from the previous show — Colm Flynn’s gentle but devastating interview with the Belgian broadcasters who smashed religious statues, exposing their double standard with a simple question about Islam and the Star of David. Donal produces a 2012 Family and […] L'articolo Hope in the Medi...

Fr. Peter George Flynn welcomes Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan of Waterford and Lismore for a wide-ranging Easter Tuesday conversation. They reflect on the road to Emmaus as a Eucharistic Gospel and the prayer “stay with us Lord Jesus” as a model for our own times; the bishop reports growing Easter crowds in Waterford as a sign […] L'articolo Catechesis – Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan on public display of...

Fr. Billy Swan presents the Breakfast Show live from Wexford, home for Easter, and opens with a sustained reflection on the resurrection as a spiritual revolution — not a symbol of values, but a shattering historical event on which everything else stands or falls. He pushes back against what he calls the “domestication” of the […] L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – The Easter Revolution – Fr Billy Swa...

Nick Koeppel opens this episode with a vivid biographical portrait of Karol Wojtyła: his childhood in Wadowice, the loss of his mother and brother, his father’s witness of prayer in their Kraków apartment as the first seminary, his encounter with the layman Jan Tyranowski and the Spanish mystics, working in a quarry during World War […] L'articolo Body Talk with Nick Koeppel – Introducing Theology...