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Deacon Don Devaney and Aidan Byrne pick up their discussion of the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit, cut short in a previous week by technical difficulties. The conversation moves from what it means to say yes to God into Aidan’s experience of healing ministry — and why St Joseph, of all people, is […] L'articolo Healing Power of the Sacraments – Joseph: The Father We Never Had – Deacon Don Dev...

Margaret presents a full episode on fragrant plants and flowers — from wisteria and honeysuckle to night-scented stock and regale lilies, including where and how to position them in a garden of any size. She opens with the observation that most people’s favourite fragrant flower is nostalgic; she wants to know which one is yours! […] L'articolo Sow and Grow – How to Position Fragrant Plants in a G...

Fr. Adrian Crowley presents two women whose causes for canonisation are open in Rome. Firstly, Mother Kevin Carney from Arklow, known in Uganda as “Mama Kevina,” who founded the Little Sisters of St Francis, opened missionary medicine to women, and comforted a desperate sister using a basket of kittens — “cling on; if you cling […] L'articolo Catechesis – Mother Kevin Carney and Ven. Angeline McCr...

Naoimh welcomes Fr Thomas Cacciola, a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal [CFR] now based at Moyross in Limerick after fourteen years in Derry. His vocation came late and circuitously — a mid-rosary moment of clarity while visiting another order settled the question. He kept the name Thomas because of a shared history with the Doubting […] L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – Working with Disadvantaged Teen...

Rebekah speaks to Marion Mulhall from the Worldpriest Apostolate, Marion is the founder and CEO of Worldpriest, an international lay organization dedicated to affirming the dignity, beauty and gift of the priesthood of Jesus Christ to humanity. Marion is also the force behind the annual global rosary relay for the sanctification of priests, a remarkable worldwide movement of […] L'articolo Marion...

Mary Hooton and Fr. Eamonn McCarthy reflect on the Trinity Sunday gospel — Jesus’s night conversation with Nicodemus, and the verse at its heart: “God so loved the world that he gave his only Son.” Fr. Eamonn traces Nicodemus through John’s Gospel as a whole, maps the Trinity’s appearance at the Annunciation, the Baptism of […] L'articolo Gospel Tidings – Seeing the Trinity Throughout the Gospel –...

Fr Eamonn McCarthy and Matthias Conroy continue through Humanae Vitae, working through the pastoral directives on self-discipline and the sacrament of matrimony — the document’s case that periodic continence is not a constraint on married love but actually a key aid for its cultivation. Fr Eamonn recalls a man who, after a homily on the […] L'articolo Into the Fire – Humanae Vitae – Church Wisdom...

Fr Peter George Flynn continues through the Acts of the Apostles with Paul under arrest in Jerusalem, a mob baying for his blood and a flogging about to begin. Paul plays his trump card — Roman citizenship by birth — and buys himself time. He also retells his Damascus road conversion before the crowd, including […] L'articolo Catechesis – St Paul the Roman Citizen – Fr Peter George Flynn OFMConv p...

Deacon Thady welcomes Ciarán, a member of the Neocatechumenal Way in Killaloe Diocese for nearly thirty years, to explain what the Way actually is and how it works. Kieran describes what brought him to it: a faith inherited from family but never personally owned, a father who eventually lost trust in the institution, and a […] L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – Inside the Neocatechumenal Way – Deacon...

Fr. Peter George Flynn reads Acts chapter 21, in which Paul’s arrival in Jerusalem sets off one of the New Testament’s most chaotic scenes. Along the way, the episode takes a thorough detour into canon law on vows — when they bind, when they cease, what happens when the thing you vowed for becomes impossible […] L'articolo Catechesis – The Jerusalem Riot – Fr Peter George Flynn OFMConv proviene da...

Fr. Aidan McCann of Keady Parish, Armagh, speaks about the importance of Pentecost and the Ascension and what our Lord is teaching us in these important feast days. We also learn about Our Lady’s month of May and its value in our lives. For more Ulster Updates, click here! L'articolo Northern Soul – Why the Ascension and Pentecost Matter – Fr Aidan McCann and Carmela proviene da Radio Maria .

Mary Stenson shares the first chapter of Léon Ó Broin’s biography of Frank Duff, written by one of his close friends: a vivid street-level account of the stable at Cheaters Lane in Dublin where Frank first gathered the men and women who would become the Legion of Mary, the proselytising establishment they were quietly countering, […] L'articolo All Things Legion – The Legion’s Unusual Beginning –...

Fr Peter George Flynn marks Trinity Sunday with a look at two figures from Franciscan history: Roger Bacon a medieval scientist accused of witchcraft and Angela of Foligno the ‘teacher of theologians’ who prayed for her entire family to die. The story of Bacon’s brazen head raises questions of personhood which are still being wrestled […] L'articolo The Franciscan Hour – A 13th-Century Franciscan...

Radio Maria’s team spread across the Dublin Convention Centre on the eve of Pentecost to catch reactions from over a thousand people gathered for the Ignite Conference hosted by the Dominicans, with Dr. Scott Hahn, Maura Murphy and Fr. Patrick Cahill on stage. Eileen, Mary, Liz and Rebekah spoke with attendees from Manchester, Limerick, Dublin […] L'articolo Reporting from the Ignite Conference wi...

Human beings and animals can both feel emotion, solve problems, communicate, and learn from experience — yet humans alone build civilizations, create science, ask moral questions, and search for meaning beyond survival. This programme explores the profound difference between animal perception and human conceptual thought, especially the role of language, syntax, abstraction, and self-awareness. Wh...

Donal O’Sullivan Latchford and Fr. Eamonn McCarthy open on the day Pope Leo XIV released Magnifica Humanitas, the Feast of Our Lady Mother of the Church, and the eighth anniversary of the abortion referendum. The programme covers the encyclical’s opening moves and what makes it a significant moment in the Church’s engagement with AI; Senator […] L'articolo Hope in the Media – Media Bias, Dolores H...

Fr. Peter George Flynn and Donal O’Sullivan Latchford discuss Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, released on the Feast of Our Lady, Mother of the Church. The document addresses artificial intelligence through the lens of Catholic social teaching — beginning with the contrast between the Tower of Babel and Nehemiah’s rebuilding of the temple […] L'articolo Catechesis – Pope Leo o...

Fr. Billy Swan reflects on the feast of Pentecost — specifically the transformation of the disciples from locked-door fear to public proclamation — and what that gift of boldness looks like in the Church today. The second half turns to the feast of Pope Saint Paul VI on 29th May: his life, his legacy, and […] L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – Pentecost Boldness – Fr Billy Swan proviene da Radio Maria...

Nick Koeppel continues his series on St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body with the concept of original nakedness — “they were both naked and were not ashamed.” He reflects on what that absence of shame actually means: not naivety, but a total freedom exempt from disorder. Drawing on John Paul II’s letter Mulieris […] L'articolo Body Talk – Original Nakedness and the Feminine Genius – Nick Koepp...

Mary teaches how to bake a delicious Victoria Sponge for those of us intolerant to gluten. 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 E31 | Let’s Bake – Classic Victoria Sponge (Gluten Free) proviene da Radio Maria .

Paul McAree reaches the final episode of his Easter series praying for a new Pentecost in Ireland. Seven weeks of exploring the Knock apparition arrive at the question that has been building throughout: why here, why then, and what was heaven saying to Ireland about its future? The programme closes with the full Eucharistic Divine […] L'articolo Eucharistic Divine Mercy – Knock: Why There, Why The...

Deacon Don Devaney welcomes Baz Mallet from Derry, involved with the Guardians of the Faith. Baz grew up with the story of Ann Mulrine — one of the miracles used in the canonisation of St Padre Pio — as a fixed point of faith through decades of drift. He shares how carrying Padre Pio’s glove […] L'articolo God’s Healing Power Hour – Padre Pio’s Miraculous Glove – Deacon Don Devaney and Baz Mallet...

Fr Peter welcomes Fr Francis Gavin of the Dublin Oratory at St Kevin’s, Harrington Street, on the feast of St Philip Neri. Who was St Philip, and what is the Oratorian charism he founded? What does it mean that Cardinal Newman spent decades trying and failing to bring an Oratory to Dublin, and what has […] L'articolo Catechesis – St Philip Neri, Cardinal Newman and the Dublin Oratory – Fr Peter Ge...

Caroline Busher hosts reviewers Caroline Mullen and Elizabeth Hickey discussing the third book in the Marian May series. Immaculée Ilibagiza, Rwandan genocide survivor and author of Left to Tell, here takes each of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady and applies them to her own life and to the lives of ordinary readers: unforgiveness, betrayal, […] L'articolo E4 | The Radio Maria Book Club – “Left to Te...

Margaret broadcasts this week from a mini digger in Anglesey! The topic is one of the most fundamental in gardening and one of the most frequently misunderstood: watering. Wind, container size, root density, plant variety, time of day — all of it matters, and none of it is as obvious as it seems. She opens […] L'articolo Sow and Grow – How to Properly Water Plants – Margaret Griffin proviene da Ra...