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John and Eoin follow on from last weeks program where they talked about not giving up on yourself and forgiveness. This week they focus on trust and how to recover if trust is broken. They quote Joyce Meyer who states that trust can enable us to live with lightness and without cares. The beginning of […] L'articolo Peace of Mind – How to trust and recover from anxiety – John Farren and Eoin Brenna...

Eoin and Fr. Chris Garrett open with warm memories of the Ignite Ireland conference before turning to the YouCat: what is the natural moral law, how does it relate to the Old Covenant, and what did Jesus actually do to the law he inherited? The conversation moves into global injustice — why doesn’t God simply […] L'articolo YouChat – Do We Follow God’s Law or the Natural Law? – Fr. Chris Garrett a...

Fr. Peter George Flynn reads Acts chapters 19 and 20, set against one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. When Paul’s preaching in Ephesus began to affect the local economy, a silversmith named Demetrius decided to do something about it — and what followed was one of the more colourful scenes in the […] L'articolo Catechesis – Which is Better: A Good Pagan or a Bad Christian? – Fr Peter Geo...

Naoimh welcomes Carmel Somerville from Louisburg, Co. Mayo, a woman who describes herself before 2019 as someone who “fell for all the empty promises of the world.” What took her to Medjugorje that Easter — behind her husband Mick’s back, nearly turning the car around at midnight at the coach stop in Castlebar — and […] L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – Falling for the World’s Empty Promises to Falli...

Fr. Darren Brennan answers a question from a child worried about being made to go to summer camp by their mum — and who also finds Mass boring. On summer camp: Fr. Darren is warm and honest, acknowledging not every child is an extrovert, but also that parents have a sacred duty to help children […] L'articolo Little Big Questions – Why Do I Have To Go To Mass When It’s Boring? – Carmela and Fr. Da...

Fr. Adrian Crowley reflects on Pentecost as the birthday of the church and the ongoing outpouring of the Holy Spirit on every generation. He moves through several images: the Spirit as yeast in bread, working invisibly to improve and fill us out; the Spirit in confession as a healer of wounds and a restorer of […] L'articolo Catechesis – Pentecost: How the Spirit Makes the Impossible Possible – Fr...

Mary Hooton and Fr. Eamonn McCarthy reflect on the Pentecost Sunday gospel: Jesus appearing to the disciples in the upper room, breathing on them and saying “Receive the Holy Spirit.” Fr. Eamonn reads the breathing of the Spirit alongside the gifts and fruits of Confirmation, and reflects on confession as a resurrection experience — every […] L'articolo Gospel Tidings – The Holy Spirit in Confessi...

Fr Peter George Flynn welcomes Fr Alex, prior of the Discalced Carmelite Priory at Boars Hill, Oxford, where a documentary called Trading Places brought three young men in their twenties — none of them practicing Catholics — to live the rhythm of Carmelite prayer and silence for a period. Fr. Alex describes the community’s founding […] L'articolo Catechesis – Welcoming Unchurched Young Men into Ca...

Fr. Peter George Flynn opens with St. Bonaventure’s prayer for the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit and his Trinitarian theology: the Father as the Unbegotten, the Son as the Word and Image, and the Spirit as the Gift, the Bond, the Love. St. Francis himself is presented as the model of openness to the […] L'articolo The Franciscan Hour – Marian Insight from Franciscan Saints – Fr Peter George Flynn...

Carmela welcomes Gustavo Munhon, a Brazilian living in Belfast for eleven years whose forthcoming e-book Gratia Plena (Full of Grace) is a compilation of poems and meditations on Our Lady written over 22 years. Gustavo traces a remarkable life: born of a sympathetic pregnancy, consecrated to Our Lady at birth by his nurse, brought to […] L'articolo Northern Soul – Consecrated to Our Lady at Birth...

Fr. Peter George Flynn reads Acts chapter 19 and Paul’s extraordinary two years in Ephesus, when the whole of Asia — Jews and Greeks alike — heard the Word of the Lord. The episode touches on the theological significance of handkerchiefs and aprons touched by Paul bringing healing — a scriptural foundation for the veneration […] L'articolo Catechesis – The Ethics of Burning Books – Fr Peter George...

Mary Stenson continues her series of recordings from Fr. Aidan McGrath’s talks to legionaries, this week covering what happened to the thousands of legionaries after he was expelled from China — including the president of his Shanghai curia, a young father of five who was executed, and a vice president doctor who was given 30 […] L'articolo All Things Legion – China: The Worst Persecution in the H...

Modern science was once expected to explain away belief in God — yet discoveries such as the Big Bang, the fine-tuning of the universe, and the mystery of consciousness have caused many to ask deeper questions about existence. It examines remarkable miracle claims from places such as Fatima, Lourdes, Eucharistic miracles, and medically unexplained healings that […] L'articolo Science, Religion, an...

Donal O’Sullivan Latchford and Fr. Eamonn McCarthy open with a fascinating interview they heard on the Claire Byrne Show: Oxford professor Carissa Veliz on the ethics of AI prediction — how prophecies act like magnets, how treating a prediction as fact can make it self-fulfilling, and why we should anchor to present facts rather than […] L'articolo Hope in the Media – Pope Leo and AI Prophecy – Fr...

Fr. Peter George Flynn reads Paul’s famous speech to the Athenian philosophers on the Areopagus — the most intellectually demanding moment of his missionary career. He unpacks Paul’s brilliant rhetorical move: using the altar to the Unknown God as his opening, quoting the Greeks’ own poets, and arguing that what their best thinkers were groping […] L'articolo Catechesis – St Paul at the Areopagus:...

Fr. Billy Swan presents from Rome, opening with a report on the Alpha leadership conference and its ten takeaways, which he reads alongside the Ascension Sunday scriptures — finding a perfect correspondence. His central point: mission is not primarily about delivering content well but about introducing people to a person. If Christ isn’t real in […] L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – Encounter: St Dam...

Nick Koeppel welcomes Adeline Corey from Lebanon, a newly certified Theology of the Body educator who has just launched her own ministry: the Song of the Bridegroom. Adeline describes the wounds that brought her to this work — questions of identity, femininity, self-worth — and how St. John Paul II’s catechesis transformed her understanding of […] L'articolo Body Talk – Teaching Theology of the Bo...

Mary teaches how to bake a delicious Passion Fruit Cheesecake. 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 E30 | Let’s Bake – Passion Fruit Cheesecake proviene da Radio Maria .

Caroline Busher hosts Suzanne Cummins reviewing the second book in the Marian May series: Immaculée Ilibagiza’s account of the Kibeho apparitions in Rwanda, where Our Lady appeared to a group of schoolchildren in the 1980s and foretold the 1994 genocide in precise and terrible detail — 13 years before it happened. Our Lady of Kibeho […] L'articolo E3 | The Radio Maria Book Club – “Our Lady of Kibe...

In this episode, Margaret focuses on potato blight prevention (baking soda spray, the correct sprayer discipline) and companion planting: interweaving potatoes with onions, garlic, coriander, peppermint, chamomile, marigolds and nasturtiums to reduce pests naturally and bring colour to the vegetable garden. L'articolo Sow and Grow – The Garden Before Dawn – Margaret Griffin proviene da Radio Maria...

Deacon Don welcomes Marie and Brigitte Unger for a special pre-Pentecost programme on the gifts, fruits and charisms of the Holy Spirit. The conversation opens with the upper room — the apostles’ grief at the Ascension, and the fire that transformed them — and moves through the practical reality of the Holy Spirit in daily […] L'articolo God’s Healing Power Hour – Pentecost: Come, Holy Spirit – De...

Liz Whyte is joined by Brother Barry Butler C.F.A. [Alexian Brothers] and Fr. Brian Kavanagh for a conversation on the middle and later stages of adult life. Brother Barry opens with the trapeze artist story told by Henri Nouwen — about who the most important person in the act really is — and asks what […] L'articolo Stages of Life – Mature Adulthood and Stewardship – Brother Barry Butler C.F.A. w...

Fr. Peter George Flynn picks up at Acts chapter 16 with the arrival of Timothy, Paul’s new protege — and pauses to note that what made Timothy bishop material was entirely down to two women: his mother Lois and his grandmother Eunice, who had immersed him in the Scriptures from childhood. The episode follows Paul, […] L'articolo Catechesis – The Women Who Shaped St Timothy – Fr Peter George Flynn...

Eoin and Fr. Chris Garrett work through several YouCat questions on society and the Catholic’s role within it. The episode covers how Christians are called to engage with the world — not retreating into private faith but taking up responsibility for the common good — and the theological foundation for social justice: that every person […] L'articolo YouChat – Separating Church and State? – Fr. Chr...

John and Eoin explore the many ways people get stuck — unforgiveness, fear, addiction, lust, dark secrets — and what it actually takes to get unstuck. The episode is anchored in honesty: naming what holds us, understanding that God’s grace and other people’s support are available, but that our own consent is where healing begins. […] L'articolo Peace of Mind – Getting Unstuck: Unforgiveness, Fear,...