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It was a joy for Radio Maria to broadcast from New Dawn at the National Shrine of Our Lady Of Walsingham this year in 2024. In this talk Fr Pat Collins speaks about The Love of God. Fr Pat has been a school teacher, a college lecturer and has published numerous books. A committed ecumenist, he helped to introduce the Alpha Course to Ireland and he is one of the founders of the New Springtime Commu...

Getting to know you V: Novatian the On Purity Patristic Pillars is a series on Radio Maria England, bringing the Church Fathers to life with Fr Joseph Hamilton. 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...

How far can a Christian be loyal to a cause, even a good cause? When do ideologies conflict with our conversion? Here the answer to this questions and more 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 - anything related to the faith, in other words. We usually have a priest, relig...

Fr Toby on the need for hope and divine sustenance. 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 v...

In this Episode Sarah de Nordwall discusses with Charlotte Xerri, singer and singing teacher, the journey to the spiritual beauty of singing.  Charlotte shares the joy of singing the role of Irene in Handel's Theodora and explores how different it is to experience Church music in a Church setting sung by people of faith and who also desire to bring forth all the singers in the choir and not ju...

As New Dawn visits Walsingham, Derek Williams reflects on the significance of the Shrine and England's history as Mary's Dowry. 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...

Fr Austin Litke, founding member of the all Dominican Friar bluegrass band The Hillbilly Thomists speaks to Fr Toby and Tim about their new album Marigold and how two venerable traditions - bluegrass and scholastic theology - make good bed fellows. 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 program...

Part 12 of Fr Simon Tugwell's Prayer in Practice. THE FRIARSIDE airs live on Radio Maria on Mondays and Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 11:15am and is rebroadcast at 11:15pm on the same days. Our Priest Director Fr Toby reads through a spiritual book, pausing and providing commentary as he goes. If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria Engl...

Fr Toby on the incarnate cross of St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross's conversion. 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 don...

Part 11 of Fr Simon Tugwell's Prayer in Practice. THE FRIARSIDE airs live on Radio Maria on Mondays and Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 11:15am and is rebroadcast at 11:15pm on the same days. Our Priest Director Fr Toby reads through a spiritual book, pausing and providing commentary as he goes. If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria Engl...

Canonesses of St Augustine - Fr Toby in Conversation with Sr Margaret Atkins of the Canonesses of St Augustine, Boardbank Hall.

Fr Toby on the grace given to St Dominic for the world. 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...

Gerard is Chairman of Harvesters Ministry and has been a Partner in Good News Books since it began in the 1990’s.  If you’ve ever been to a Celebrate or New Dawn Event, or the Catholic Miracle Rally in London, you will almost certainly have seen him at some point! Harvesters has proven to be a life-changing ministry for many men, who have attended their annual weekend away.  If this is something y...

Part 10 of Fr Simon Tugwell's Prayer in Practice. THE FRIARSIDE airs live on Radio Maria on Mondays and Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 11:15am and is rebroadcast at 11:15pm on the same days. Our Priest Director Fr Toby reads through a spiritual book, pausing and providing commentary as he goes. If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria Engl...

Fr Toby on the dogged persistence of the Canaanite woman. 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 Engla...

We are delighted to have Janet and Paul de Boo from Teams of Our Lady back on Radio Maria to talk about the special role of grandparents and the elderly. 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 d...

In Episode 17 Antonia and special guest Dan Hitchens grapple with ‘In the 20th Century’ by James Macauley, who tries to make words mean. The feast of The Transfiguration and discussions of change and staticness within natural landscapes. Music: A Place called England by Maggie Holland. Florilegium is a programme on Radio Maria which seeks to weave together liturgy, literature and  gardening in ram...

Daniel Ram shares the story of his conversion with Fr Stefan Park, a journey that took him through the philosophies of the East, into the Russian Orthodox Church and eventually into Catholicism. A personal story full of theological insights and enthusiasm. AWAKENINGS is a monthly programme featuring stories of faith and conversion. It usually broadcasts on the first Thursday of each month at 10am,...

We welcome Fr Tomasz Margol back to Radio Maria to tell us all about a much beloved saint, Padre Pio, as well as invitation to join him on pilgrimage to San Giovanni Rotondo this autumn. Fr Tomasz is Assistant Parish Priest at Our Lady of the Annunciation, Addiscombe, in the Diocese of Southwark. CREDO is a programme that nourishes listeners in their Catholic faith. It airs live on Radio Maria eve...

In this monthly update from Aid to the Church in Need, John Pontifex, Head of Press and Public Affairs, tells us about the recent work of the charity in Nigeria, Liberia and Pakistan. For any further information, please email John on johnp@acnuk.org. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is a Catholic charity and Pontifical Foundation of the Catholic Church that supports Christians around the world who...

Caritas Westminster joins us on Radio Maria for a new monthly series focusing on the work of Caritas. In this first episode Richard Harries, Director of Caritas Westminster, and Fr Dominic Robinson SJ, parish priest of the Church of the Immaculate Conception Farm Street and Chair of Westminster Justice and Peace, look at Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Deus Caritas Est and how it has been imple...

Fr Toby on the Transfiguration. 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. RadioMa...

In his weekly teaching on prayer and the spiritual life Fr Bernardino here speaks to us about how we are not to live on only bread alone but that our hearts are thirsty for something more. 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 cons...

This week on The Bardcast episode 22, ( the C side) we begin with a delightful Raymond Carver poem sent in by a Naval chaplain, that has us musing on the things we choose to gaze upon with love. We then move to consider the gifts on offer from Dionysius as compared with Christ in the Eucharist and then muse on the freedom from sexual exploitation that was eventually gained when Christianity came t...

Fr Toby on the God who is more generous than this particular kitchen lady. 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 R...