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Alastair Emblem lives in St Joan of Arc parish, Farnham, Surrey. Since early 2018, Alastair has been the Core Group Leader of the Alton day of renewal which is a monthly meeting of the Catholic charismatic renewal formed 50 years ago this year (2025), and known affectionately as ADoRE. It’s one of the longest continually-running Charismatic Days of Renewal in Britain. Alastair has been Worship Lea...

CREDO is a programme that nourishes listeners in their Catholic faith. It airs live on Radio Maria every weekday at 4pm and is rebroadcast at 4am the following morning.  If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria England by visiting www. RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support...

Fr Toby on endings and beginnings and light in the darkness. WORD FOR TODAY is broadcast live on Radio Maria on weekdays at 1:15pm and is rebroadcast at 12:15am and 5:45am the following day. In it our Priest Director Fr Toby offers a reflection, usually drawing from the Mass readings of the day.  If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria En...

Why did Jesus undergo baptism if he was without sin and did not need salvation? Should I follow my 'gut feeling'? What does it mean not to judge? And when do games go too far? Fr Toby and Sr Carino answer these questions and others on this episode of Questions of Faith. QUESTIONS OF FAITH is a programme in which listeners call in and ask our guests a theological, biblical or pastoral question - an...

CREDO is a programme that nourishes listeners in their Catholic faith. It airs live on Radio Maria every weekday at 4pm and is rebroadcast at 4am the following morning.  If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria England by visiting www. RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support...

Catholic writer, Karen Lawrence speaks about her book on walking from London to Walsingham. JUST LIFE is a human formation programme brought to you by Radio Maria, airing on weekdays at 10am and rebroadcast at 10pm.  If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria England by visiting www. RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during offic...

Fr Toby looks at Rene Girard on desire and Jesus Christ as the fulfilment of all our desires. WORD FOR TODAY is broadcast live on Radio Maria on weekdays at 1:15pm and is rebroadcast at 12:15am and 5:45am the following day. In it our Priest Director Fr Toby offers a reflection, usually drawing from the Mass readings of the day.  If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or m...

Fr Toby on the fundamental need that social media cannot provide. WORD FOR TODAY is broadcast live on Radio Maria on weekdays at 1:15pm and is rebroadcast at 12:15am and 5:45am the following day. In it our Priest Director Fr Toby offers a reflection, usually drawing from the Mass readings of the day. If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Mari...

Fr Toby on Mary the Mother of God and the astonishing invitation of God. WORD FOR TODAY is broadcast live on Radio Maria on weekdays at 1:15pm and is rebroadcast at 12:15am and 5:45am the following day. In it our Priest Director Fr Toby offers a reflection, usually drawing from the Mass readings of the day.  If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Ra...

Fr Toby looks at the abundance of life in Christ with help from Fr Henri Nouwen. WORD FOR TODAY is broadcast live on Radio Maria on weekdays at 1:15pm and is rebroadcast at 12:15am and 5:45am the following day. In it our Priest Director Fr Toby offers a reflection, usually drawing from the Mass readings of the day.  If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donati...

Today we hear the story of Maira Shahbaz, the Christian girl from Pakistan in hiding for four years following abduction forced conversion, sexual violence and forced marriage. Aid to the Church in Need is a Pontifical Foundation of the Catholic Church, supporting the Catholic faithful and other Christians where they are persecuted, oppressed or in pastoral need. In this episode of Afternoons with...

In Episode 28, Kate and guest Jack Noutch embrace the feast of the epiphany through the Gospel and through the gradual revelations of cryptic poetry. Jack is a classicist, an original member of the Willibrord Fellowship (a weekly theology reading group once in London and now continued in Edinburgh); and currently involved in Morphe Arts (www.morphearts.org). Exploring the Indra's net of language t...

Fr Toby on knowing the kind to be kind. WORD FOR TODAY is broadcast live on Radio Maria on weekdays at 1:15pm and is rebroadcast at 12:15am and 5:45am the following day. In it our Priest Director Fr Toby offers a reflection, usually drawing from the Mass readings of the day.  If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria England by visiting www...

On the Epiphany Fr Joseph looks at the homilies of St John Chrysostom and St Leo the Great on this wonderful feast. Fr Joseph Hamilton is the Rector of the Domus Australia in Rome, and a priest of the Archdiocese of Sydney Australia. Prior to his appointment at Domus, he served as private secretary to George Cardinal Pell, until the Cardinal’s untimely death. Fr Joseph completed his doctoral studi...

All desire is a desire for Being - Fr Toby sees the thought of Rene Girard played out in KT Tunstall's Epiphany when writing her hit, Suddenly I See. WORD FOR TODAY is broadcast live on Radio Maria on weekdays at 1:15pm and is rebroadcast at 12:15am and 5:45am the following day. In it our Priest Director Fr Toby offers a reflection, usually drawing from the Mass readings of the day.  If you enjoye...

A regular on Radio Maria, Simon John speaks about the Abolition of Slavery, slavery in India and the UN's International Day of the Abolition of Slavery. JUST LIFE is a human formation programme brought to you by Radio Maria, airing on weekdays at 10am and rebroadcast at 10pm.  If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria England by visiting ww...

Fr Joseph Hamilton continues taking us through the Church Fathers and their teachings, this week focusing on St Basil and his teaching on Anger. PATRISTIC PILLARS Fr Joseph Hamilton explores St Athanasius's Life of St Anthony , what it says on the topic of demons, the monastic life in the desert and all this in discussion with our very own Dominican, Fr Toby. Fr Joseph Hamilton is the Rector of th...

Liz Ansah, the National Director for the Flame of Love of the Immaculate heart of Mary Movement UK, and Mary Martin, the English Spokesperson, speak of the graces for the dying, for souls in Purgatory and for us, that are available through the Flame of Love. If you would like to know more about the Flame of Love Movement, please visit their website, www.flameoflove.uk

Fr Euan takes us through the book of Job, chapter by chapter. Today will be the last episode on Job as Advent is almost upon us. AS I WAS SAYING airs live on Radio Maria on Thursdays at 11:15am and is rebroadcast at 11:15pm. Each week Fr Euan Marley OP makes his way, chapter by chapter, through a book of Holy Scripture providing in-depth commentary.  If you enjoyed this programme, please consider...

Written and narrated by Edmund Matyjaszek, featuring Fr Toby Lees, Lola Young, Sarah de Nordwall and Charles Wilson as well as the Rosary Shrine Singers conducted by Rachael Shipard, this is a nativity play not to be missed, performed in front of a live audience at St Dominic's Parish Hall on the 15th of December 2024

Who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews, are priests exempt from showing the laity respect and are some scriptures in contradiction with Mary's sinlessness? Fr Richard Ounsworth and Fr Toby tackle these questions and more on this week's Questions of Faith. QUESTIONS OF FAITH is a programme in which listeners call in and ask our guests a theological, biblical or pastoral question - anything related to...

Fr Euan draws his journey through the book of Job to a temporary close on chapter 27 in time for us to change tack for Advent... stay tuned to find out what we'll be looking at for that. AS I WAS SAYING airs live on Radio Maria on Thursdays at 11:15am and is rebroadcast at 11:15pm. Each week Fr Euan Marley OP makes his way, chapter by chapter, through a book of Holy Scripture providing in-depth co...

Author Fiorella de Maria tells the remarkable story of Mons Hugh O'Flaherty. JUST LIFE is a human formation programme brought to you by Radio Maria, airing on weekdays at 10am and rebroadcast at 10pm.  If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria England by visiting www. RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is...

Fr Toby on the immanence and transcendence of St John the Evangelist WORD FOR TODAY is broadcast live on Radio Maria on weekdays at 1:15pm and is rebroadcast at 12:15am and 5:45am the following day. In it our Priest Director Fr Toby offers a reflection, usually drawing from the Mass readings of the day.  If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio...

Nick and Tim continue to enjoy the liturgy of Christmas and Christmastide, discuss it and bring it to your ears. THE LITURGICAL LOOKING GLASS is a programme that looks at the liturgy of the week ahead and music that is inspired by it either directly or indirectly. It is written by Nick Swarbrick and co-presented by Tim Hutchinson. It airs every Friday at 10am and is rebroadcast at 10pm. If you enj...