The tone of this episode is sombre, contemplative and very much in the shadow of the Cross. Episodes are not likely to stay online very long, so listen and enjoy while it's here!

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We're joined by Br John Church OP - or Deacon John Church, I should say... and he tells us why deacons can't do certain things priests can do, what three things need to be present in every part of the Mass and how to discern the voice of God.

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Enter the kingdom as a little child with Lucia and Maria Watson as they go through the Gospel readings for this Sunday's Mass.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY is put together for Radio Maria by Lucia Watson based on CAFOD’s Children’s Liturgy material.

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Join Lauren from Hidden Catholic on Radio Maria England as she walks the ancient Pilgrims’ Way from Southwark to Canterbury. Discover the rich history of St. Thomas Becket, the medieval pilgrims who journeyed in faith, and what it means to walk a pilgrimage today. Whether you’ve trekked the route yourself or dream of doing so, this episode brings England’s sacred paths to life.

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Derek continues to take us through the Gospel of St John, verse by verse.

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Churchill's language shows the finger of God was upon him - and that he was aware of it. Edmund reflects on Churchill's use of language, the victory that was won, as well as England’s identity as the Dowry of Mary. This programme fortifies us in our understanding of our own country and what it exists for, and so encourages us all.

Edmund Matyjaszek is a poet and playright, who lives on the Isle of Wight. He contributes to Radio Maria's Saint of the Day programme each Saturday.

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Derek continues taking us through the Gospel of St John, verse by verse.

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We take a break from St Basil on fasting and feasting to look at the fascinating figure of St John Chrysostom.

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 studies in Patristics at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and his license at the Patristic Institute “Augustinianum” in Rome. Prior to entering seminary he worked as an investment banker. Having left the economy of Mammon for that of Salvation, he studied at the Pontifical North American College. A native of Ireland, he is a keen but mediocre (his words) surfer, and enjoys reading and cooking.

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The Sisters of St Joseph's reflect on the readings from Sunday and use the Catechism to go a bit deeper into their meaning.

Each Wednesday morning the Dominican Sisters of St Joseph go deeper into the Gospel reading for the upcoming Sunday by exploring how it is used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, finding connections in all four sections of the Catechism: the Profession of Faith, the Liturgy and Sacraments, our Life in Christ, and Prayer. Connecting the Gospel to these four dimensions of the Christian life with the help of the Catechism will break open the deepest meaning of the Scriptures for catechists of all age groups, Children's Liturgy leaders, teachers and parents.

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CEO of Caritas Westminster, Richard Harries speaks to Lord Lemos, author of 'Childhood and Contemporary Catholicism' - a compelling and timely argument that Catholic faith and religious practice still hold a unique and vital significance for children. All involved in the education and spiritual formation of the young will find this book most useful for understanding the essential role of Catholicism in nurturing the spiritual and moral development of the younger generation.

JUST LIFE is a human formation programme brought to you by Radio Maria, airing on weekdays at 10am and rebroadcast at 10pm.

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Fr Toby on the deep conversion Jesus invites us into.

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. 

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We continue looking at the St John's account of Jesus conversation with Nicodemus in Chapter 3.

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The March for Life UK team (or Ben and Isabel) chat to Bishop John Keenan, bishop of Paisley, about his passion for the pro-life cause.

Currently in the UK there are around a quarter of a million abortions every year – what’s our response to this? March for Life UK faces this issue with truth and compassion to help bring to an end the tragedy of abortion. 

Our public witness events, training days, YouTube channel, social media presence and talks both in the UK and abroad all help to create awareness of the hurt and damage abortion causes as well as promote respect for the dignity of every human life from the moment of conception. 

We work to bring together the pro-life movement, educating and inspiring them to be pro-life not just in name but in their actions so that together we can flip the nation back to life!

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Derek turns out attention to Nicodemus, that interesting figure and his encounter with Christ in Chapter 3 of John's Gospel.

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Simon looks at the Home Office's recently released figures on Modern Slavery for 2024 and homes in on some recent cases in the Diocese of East Anglia.

Simon John is a retired solicitor and lifelong human rights activist from Thetford in Suffolk. His series 'Set the Downtrodden Free' has been running on Radio Maria since 2021.

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Rejoice Jerusalem! We look in this episode at the 4th Sunday of Lent, Laetare Sunday, named after its introit.

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.

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What does the Church teach about extra-terrestrials? Should Catholics break the prayer barriers around abortion clinics en masse? And what should a Catholic marrying an agnostic be prepared for? Hear Sr Carino and Fr Toby's answers to these questions and more.

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, religious brother or sister or lay evangelist on and the programme airs live on Fridays at 11:15am.

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Adam Simon, leader of The Lay Community of St Benedict, tells us not only about what it is to be a Lay Benedictine and how to get involved, but also about St Benedict, the history of the Benedictines in this country and of two current vacancies within the Order. Find out more on www.lcsb.uk

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A brand new series on Radio Maria in which the Dominican Sisters of New Forest looking at the Gospel readings for the Sunday to come and the Catechism passages that speak to it.

Each Wednesday morning the Dominican Sisters of St Joseph go deeper into the Gospel reading for the upcoming Sunday by exploring how it is used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, finding connections in all four sections of the Catechism: the Profession of Faith, the Liturgy and Sacraments, our Life in Christ, and Prayer. Connecting the Gospel to these four dimensions of the Christian life with the help of the Catechism will break open the deepest meaning of the Scriptures for catechists of all age groups, Children's Liturgy leaders, teachers and parents.

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Step into the rhythm of the year with Seasons of Grace, a monthly tour of nature, history, and the sacred.

As winter loosens its grip, Fiona Campbell Hicks journeys with us through a March brimful with the promise of renewal; daffodils shining, birdsong ringing out, and a plethora of feasts radiating with joy.

SEASONS OF GRACE is a monthly programme on Radio Maria written and presented by Fiona Campbell-Hicks that airs on the last Thursday of the month at 8pm and looks at the rhythms and tables of the liturgical year, stopping along the way to marvel at nature.

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Fr Toby on the basic simplicity of Christian life and the complexity of sin.

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. 

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Step into the rhythm of the year with Fiona Campbell Hicks for this monthly tour of nature, history and the sacred. As spring unfolds in earnest, April brings a world of cherry blossom and Easter joy.

Seasons of Grace is a monthly programme on Radio Maria written and presented by Fiona Campbell-Hicks that airs on the last Thursday of the month at 8pm and and looks at the rhythms and tables of the liturgical year, stopping along the way to marvel at nature.

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Fr Toby examines some of our questions about petitionary prayer.

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. 

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Can films and novels help us fight the battle against the multiple dangers of governments allowing assisted suicide? Creatives are often prophetic and their warnings tell truths imaginatively that others might miss.

This week the Bardcast returns with a dynamic conversation between Sarah de Nordwall our Bardcast host and charismatic Glaswegian Robert Cassidy, who taught theology and philosophy in America and Austria, to discuss the powerful but tender film from Japan “Plan 75.”

A film or novel can be an essential thought experiment. Let’s think together.

If you want to have a new conversation with friends and MPs about the unhappy societal changes that take place when forms of assisted suicide become legal then enjoy and share this Bardcast episode with them and do watch the film too!

If you know of great art that that warns us imaginatively about issues around governments allowing or even encouraging assisted suicide, then do write in to [email protected]

This miniseries continues till the Leadbetter bill is voted on this April.

Churchill's language shows the finger of God was upon him - and that he was aware of it. Edmund reflects on Churchill's use of language, the victory that was won, as well as England’s identity as the Dowry of Mary. This programme fortifies us in our understanding of our own country and what it exists for, and so encourages us all.

Edmund Matyjaszek is a poet and playwright who lives on the Isle of Wight. He contributes to Radio Maria's Saint of the Day programme each Saturday.

JUST LIFE is programme encompassing all aspects everyday life, airing on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am, rebroadcast at 10pm the same day, and Saturdays 11am and 8pm.

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Why do we say that Jesus descended into hell in the Creed? If Jesus descended there what did he do there?

Fr Brendan and Fr Toby answer this question and others in this episode of Questions of Faith hosted by Charlotte.

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, religious brother or sister or lay evangelist on and the programme airs live on Fridays at 11:15am. 

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Enter the kingdom as a little child with Lucia and Maria Watson as they go through the Gospel readings for this Sunday's Mass.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY is put together for Radio Maria by Lucia Watson based on CAFOD’s Children’s Liturgy material.

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Derek continues his commentary on St John's Gospel, picking up where he left off last week looking at the Wedding at Cana.

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. 

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Dr Andre Theng sheds light on how Catholics should approach social media in conversation with Fr Toby.

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.

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Fr Toby reminds us that the path of conversion is must still be trod.

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. 

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Derek starts chapter 2 of John's Gospel today, looking at the Wedding of Cana.

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Fr Joseph Hamilton begins a Lenten series beginning with the writing of St Basil on fasting.

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 studies in Patristics at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and his license at the Patristic Institute “Augustinianum” in Rome. Prior to entering seminary he worked as an investment banker. Having left the economy of Mammon for that of Salvation, he studied at the Pontifical North American College. A native of Ireland, he is a keen but mediocre (his words) surfer, and enjoys reading and cooking.

CREDO (currently hosting Patristic Pillars) 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.

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Eastern Rite Catholic Priest, Fr John Reves joins Fr Toby on the Friarside to talk about how the Eastern Rite Catholics approach Lent.

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.

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Fr Toby extols the benefits of walking the Camino as testing for marriage and training for life

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. 

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In the spirit of Lent Fr Joseph continues to look at the Fathers and what they taught on fasting. This is part 2 of St Basil on Fasting. 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 studies in Patristics at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and his license at the Patristic Institute “Augustinianum” in Rome. Prior to entering seminary he worked as an investment banker. Having left the economy of Mammon for that of Salvation, he studied at the Pontifical North American College. A native of Ireland, he is a keen but mediocre (his words) surfer, and enjoys reading and cooking.

Fr Toby reminds us that the path of conversion must still be trod.WORD FOR TODAY airs live Monday to Friday at 1.15pm and is rebroadcast at 00.45am and 5.45am.

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Fr John Reves, a priest of the Ukrainian-Greco rite, looks at the Great Lent as practised by the Church in the East, with a particular focus on fasting.

Fr John is the Director of the Byzantine Prayer Centre, Salzburg, Austria.

THE FRIARSIDE airs live on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 11.15am, rebroadcast at 11.15pm the sameday.

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Fr Toby extols the benefits of walking the Camino as testing for marriage and training for life

Enter the kingdom as a little child with Lucia and Maria Watson as they go through the Gospel readings for this Sunday's Mass.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY is put together for Radio Maria by Lucia Watson based on CAFOD’s Children’s Liturgy material.

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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

In this episode we take you through the days from Friday after Ash Wednesday to the the next Wednesday in Week 1 of Lent, looking at the introits, collects, readings and sometimes communion antiphons, and the threads that run through and unite them.

Fr Bernardino looks that the Mass readings for the first Sunday of Lent.

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In Episode 31, Antonia and Kate peer through the windows of Emily Dickinson’s house of possibility, twitching the curtains that close between poetry and fiction, and, finally, step out into the garden to find ancient stories about growing pumpkins, beans and maize. They begin with the gospel of Luke and a discussion of worldly wisdom and the wisdom of the kingdom of heaven. 

Florilegium is a programme on Radio Maria which seeks to weave together liturgy, literature and  gardening in rambling, hopefully fruitful ways. It is written and presented by Kate Banks and Antonia Shack. You can follow them on SubStack at substack.com/@florilegiumpodcast 

About the Creators

Antonia leads a patchwork life with jobs including but not limited to mother, book designer, editor, actor and teacher. She and Kate began discussing poetry, liturgy and gardening at the Willibrord Fellowship reading group in London and are delighted to be continuing these conversations on Radio Maria. 

Kate is a teacher of Literature, Philosophy and Theology, with a particularly keen regard for the poet and artist David Jones around whom many of her studies and her teaching-subjects have been based. She also briefly worked as a gardener in London, though she now lives with her little boy on the river Exe in Devon.

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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Toby on the true nature of Christian fasting.

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. 

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The end is finally approaching of this fascinating book, and in this chapter God addresses Job, the 'answer' we have been waiting for through the narrative.

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. 

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What do we actually mean when we say that by Christ's wounds, we are healed? Tim Hutchinson recommends 'Healing Wounds', by Erik Varden, the Bloomsbury 2025 Lenten Read.

Fr Toby shares some of GK Chesterton's paradoxical thinking.

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. 

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Angela Alves speaks about her new series dramatising the lives of 7 women of the Old Testament.

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.

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Catherine Wallis-Hughes, Laura Calnan and Fr Matthew Jarvis discuss their thought on this exhibition and introduce us to some of the amazing women featured.

MORNINGS WITH RADIO MARIA airs live every weekday at 9am, featuring a wide range of guests with interesting stories to tell and things to share. If you don’t already follow our live broadcasts, tune in on DAB in England or download the Radio Maria Play app and listen anywhere in the world. 

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Fr Toby on the conversion of heart in Lent and the learning to trust in what can be trusted.

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. 

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Download your own copy of the Diocese of Salford's Jubilee Booklet which contains all you need to know to be a Pilgrim of Hope. Included are the designated Churches, the Jubilee Prayer and information about pilgrimages outside of Salford, including to Rome. https://dioceseofsalford.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Main-Jubilee-booklet-digital.pdf

Fr Toby shows how law contains our fallen propensity to violence and sacrifice of the innocent using the thought of Rene Girard.

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. 

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Many of the Church Fathers wrote commentaries and teachings on the prayer that Christ taught us to pray, the Our Father. In this episode we look at Cyprian's catechesis on this most sacred of prayers.

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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 studies in Patristics at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and his license at the Patristic Institute “Augustinianum” in Rome. Prior to entering seminary he worked as an investment banker. Having left the economy of Mammon for that of Salvation, he studied at the Pontifical North American College. A native of Ireland, he is a keen but mediocre (his words) surfer, and enjoys reading and cooking.

CREDO (currently hosting Patristic Pillars) 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.

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Fr Toby on the three stages of the interior life.

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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. 

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What should we give up this Lent and why? Fr Bernard directs our Lenten focus towards love of God and how to live this joyful season truly putting God in the first place.

Fr Bernard Murphy is a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal currently based at St Fidelis Friary in Canning Town, London.

Halloween Follow-Up: Faith & Perspectives

This episode, originally aired on 29 October 2024, continues the conversation on Halloween with a diverse panel of guests. Shannon, a mother, members of Jesus Youth, and Fr. Brendan Seery, Parish Priest of Our Lady Help of Christians, Luton, share their insights on faith, traditions, and the Christian approach to Halloween.

Having finished his series on Anthropologically Sound Economics Edward now turns his attention to money, what is it really, and what should our attitude as Christians be towards it. This programme is broadcast live every Friday at 4pm on Credo.

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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. 

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Ania Graglewska shares the story of how God used pain to bring her closer to him and bring her down a path of faith and thanks-giving that led to a deep healing.

AWAKENINGS airs on Radio Maria on the first Thursday of the Month at 10am and is rebroadcast at 10pm on the same day. The programme is usually facilitated by Fr Stefan Park and features the conversion stories and the journeys of faith of particular guests.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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Ivano shares life-giving wisdom on marriage in today's programme, a special for Marriage Week.

Fr Ivano Millico is the parish priest of Sts Peter and Paul, Clerkenwell, London, in the Archdiocese of Westminster. He is also part of the Newman House University Chaplaincy Team. He is the author of 7 Words on Marriage published by the CTS, the Catholic Truth Society.

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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 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 studies in Patristics at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and his license at the Patristic Institute “Augustinianum” in Rome. Prior to entering seminary he worked as an investment banker. Having left the economy of Mammon for that of Salvation, he studied at the Pontifical North American College. A native of Ireland, he is a keen but mediocre (his words) surfer, and enjoys reading and cooking.

Helping to end abortion this Lent.

Currently in the UK there are around a quarter of a million abortions every year – what’s our response to this? March for Life UK faces this issue with truth and compassion to help bring to an end the tragedy of abortion. 

Our public witness events, training days, YouTube channel, social media presence and talks both in the UK and abroad all help to create awareness of the hurt and damage abortion causes as well as promote respect for the dignity of every human life from the moment of conception. 

We work to bring together the pro-life movement, educating and inspiring them to be pro-life not just in name but in their actions so that together we can flip the nation back to life!

About Radio Maria: Radio Maria England is a 24 hour Catholic radio station which broadcasts on Digital Radio in selected regions of the UK and online (using the Radio Maria Play app or the webpage) accessible anywhere in the world. 

Form and Matter and Aristotle's Four Causes.

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 England by visiting www.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Toby on the true motivation of all Christian charity.

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. 

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Fr Toby looks at Aristotle's thought in light of Heraclitus and Parmenides.

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.

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Fr Toby asks whether, right now, you are for Him or against Him?

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. 

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It is always a joy to have Edmund Adamus, friend of Radio Maria, speaking and broadcasting with us. In this episode, broadcast during Marriage Week in 2025, Edmund talks about how the Church's teaching on marriage is always relevant, always radical, always life giving.

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Helena and Mel Ward share their experiences with their families made of young children and teens and how they "tackle" Lent - not as easy to do when the world encourages you to keep focused on yourself.

Fr Toby on how Christianity is not a call to mediocrity but a reconceived greatness of love and service.

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. 

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Brenden Thompson of Word on Fire joins Fr Toby to talk about the second London conference.

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Deacon Bong and his wife Katia tell us all about Couples for Christ.

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Fr Toby on seizing the initiative in love and forgiveness.

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. 

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Listen to the inspiring story of a South African woman whose determination to become a nun (before she was even Catholic) set her on a course of caring for the poor, the sick and the unusual privilage of accompanying the dying among many other adventures described Sr Dorothea of Nazareth House.

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Bringing almost his entire Anglican parish along with him into the Catholic Church, Fr Ed Tomlinson's story is one not to be missed.

Songs in the Wilderness is a programme that features a guest telling the story of his or her life and the songs that inspired them along the way. Listen to Songs in the Wilderness live on Wednesdays at 10am and again at 10pm on Radio Maria England.

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Richard and Juliet Burnford from Chemin Neuf make a special appearance on Radio Maria during Marriage Week to talk about their Cana Programme.

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Fr Toby and Fr Matthew Jarvis talk about the remarkable live of Pierre Giorgio Frassati, the young saint whom Pope John Paul II called a man of the beatitudes.

MORNINGS WITH RADIO MARIA airs live every weekday at 9am, featuring a wide range of guests with interesting stories to tell and things to share. If you don’t already follow our live broadcasts, tune in on DAB in England or download the Radio Maria Play app and listen anywhere in the world. 

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Fr Toby on the movements of head and heart in following Christ

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. 

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Enter the kingdom as a little child with Lucia and Maria Watson as they go through the Gospel readings for this Sunday's Mass.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY is put together for Radio Maria by Lucia Watson based on CAFOD’s Children’s Liturgy material.

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Does being merciful mean that we will get trampled on? Fr Bernardino examines this beatitude that Jesus gave us.

Fr Bernardino is a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal at St Patrick's Friary in Limerick, Ireland, who gives a weekly teaching at 4pm on Thursdays on Radio Maria. This programme is usually rebroadcast on Sundays at 5pm.

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. 

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Fr Toby on why Elton John was wrong about 'It's no sacrifice'.

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. 

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Fr Toby takes us through some of the key metaphysical divisions concentrating on essence and existence, substance and accident.

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.

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Fr Toby on the centrality of the Christ's, 'Who do you say I am?'

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. 

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What do you get when you let a 6 year old into the studio to ask questions on Questions of Faith? We learn a little about what makes the Catholic Church different to Anglicanism, how to hear the voice of God and more. An episode not to be missed.

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, religious brother or sister or lay evangelist on and the programme airs live on Fridays at 11:15am. 

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Having completed his series on Anthropologically Sound Economics Edward turns his attention now to money, what it is, what it isn't, and how should Christians use it.

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Clare McCullough from Good Counsel Network talks about the wonderful work that they do to support women and offer alternatives to abortion and tells us how we can get involved this Lent in praying for the end of abortion.

For more information visit: www.GoodCounselNetwork.com

Anthropologically Sound Economics: if such a thing can exist, what would it look like? Edward Hadas continues a new series that draws on the Teaching and Tradition of the Catholic Church to answer this question in his weekly Credo which airs at 4pm every Friday on Radio Maria. 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. 

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Archbishop Malcolm McMahon has declared the case of John (Jack) Traynor a miracle. Jack was a pilgrim on the archdiocese's first official pilgrimage to Lourdes in 1923 and was cured dramatically of epilepsy, paralysis of the right arm and paraplegia during the pilgrimage. The case has been believed to be miraculous from people across the archdiocese and beyond, but, despite an attempt in 1993, there has never been an official ecclesiastical declaration until today. It is the 71st official miracle to have happened in Lourdes and the first person from England to be recognised.

The Liverpool Lourdes Pilgrimage association share Jack's Story as well as how listeners can join them this year to Lourdes.

Fr Bernardino looks at The Fall and it's effect on man and the earth, and the power of words as a source of curse or blessing.

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. 

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Fr Toby on literature and the importance of difference.

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. 

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Fr Toby offers the example of Bl. Pierre Giorgio Frassati, Man of the Beatitudes.

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. 

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During Marriage Week Fr Toby invites Dominic Freely and Tim Church (friends and supporters of Radio Maria) to speak about the goodness of fatherhood.

CREDO (currently hosting Patristic Pillars) 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.

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Fr Joseph Hamilton looks at the Patristic teaching on the Our Father, this week focusing on 'the master' Tertullian.

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 studies in Patristics at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and his license at the Patristic Institute “Augustinianum” in Rome. Prior to entering seminary he worked as an investment banker. Having left the economy of Mammon for that of Salvation, he studied at the Pontifical North American College. A native of Ireland, he is a keen but mediocre (his words) surfer, and enjoys reading and cooking.

Anthropologically Sound Economics: if such a thing can exist, what would it look like? Edward Hadas continues a new series that draws on the Teaching and Tradition of the Catholic Church to answer this question in his weekly Credo which airs at 4pm every Friday on Radio Maria. 

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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

We hear the beautiful story of Doris Ntow in conversation with Fr Toby of how Mary's motherhood opened up the Catholic Faith to her.

AWAKENINGS airs on Radio Maria on the first Thursday of the Month at 10am and is rebroadcast at 10pm on the same day. The programme is usually facilitated by Fr Stefan Park and features the conversion stories and the journeys of faith of particular guests.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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Toby reflects on the creation of man and woman in the image and likeness 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. 

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Anthropologically Sound Economics: if such a thing can exist, what would it look like? Edward Hadas continues a new series that draws on the Teaching and Tradition of the Catholic Church to answer this question in his weekly Credo which airs at 4pm every Friday on Radio Maria. 

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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Sharon and James look at things that go wrong in marriage and how best to fix them.

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.

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Fr Toby on how we are called to be the sort of people who can go to the margins whilst remaining Christ's.

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. 

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Roy looks at marriage in fiction and what we might glean from it. Roy himself is an author of adult and children's fiction who lives in surrey with his wife, two children and a small menagerie of animals.

Sr Carino Hodder OP talks with Fr Toby about the spousal union of religious women with Christ and what this teaches us about the Church.

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 England by visiting www.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Antonia and Kate are back together again to wend their way through ee cummings, reading the scriptures from Genesis 1 for the feast of St Scholastica, and throwing about a few late winter garden observations.

Florilegium is a programme on Radio Maria which seeks to weave together liturgy, literature and  gardening in rambling, hopefully fruitful ways. It is written and presented by Kate Banks and Antonia Shack. You can follow them on SubStack atsubstack.com/@florilegiumpodcast 

About the Creators

Antonia leads a patchwork life with jobs including but not limited to mother, book designer, editor, actor and teacher. She and Kate began discussing poetry, liturgy and gardening at the Willibrord Fellowship reading group in London and are delighted to be continuing these conversations on Radio Maria. 

Kate is a teacher of Literature, Philosophy and Theology, with a particularly keen regard for the poet and artist David Jones around whom many of her studies and her teaching-subjects have been based. She also briefly worked as a gardener in London, though she now lives with her little boy on the river Exe in Devon.

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Author and CEO of Tepeyac Leadership, Inc., talks with Fr Toby and Inti about the Hour of the Laity and their mission to be leaders in all spheres of society.

Fr Toby chats with Jimmy in the lead-up to World Leprosy Day.

JUST LIFE is a human formation programme brought to you by Radio Maria, airing on weekdays at 10am and rebroadcast at 10pm.

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Anthropologically Sound Economics: if such a thing can exist, what would it look like? Edward Hadas continues a new series that draws on the Teaching and Tradition of the Catholic Church to answer this question in his weekly Credo which airs at 4pm every Friday on Radio Maria. 

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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Christian shares about his new app that helps couples incorporate their faith and the church's traditions into their wedding. The website is www.annointedwedding.com

Fr Toby on Peter's beautiful encounter with Jesus Christ.

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. 

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Jenny Sinclair, Director and Founder of Together for the Common Good shares her story with Fr Toby, reflecting on the power of friendships, and the gift of Catholic Social Teaching for building a society in which every person can flourish.

JUST LIFE is a human formation programme brought to you by Radio Maria, airing on weekdays at 10am and rebroadcast at 10pm. 

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Katy, a descendant of a Polish Auschwitz survivor, talks emotively about today's anniversary of the little known deportation of 2 million Poles to Siberia in 1940.

Katy Carr is a singer, performer, songwriter and at the end of the programme we hear her song 'Red Red Rose'.

MORNINGS WITH RADIO MARIA airs live every weekday at 9am, featuring a wide range of guests with interesting stories to tell and things to share. If you don’t already follow our live broadcasts, tune in on DAB in England or download the Radio Maria Play app and listen anywhere in the world. 

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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Anthropologically Sound Economics: if such a thing can exist, what would it look like? Edward Hadas continues a new series that draws on the Teaching and Tradition of the Catholic Church to answer this question in his weekly Credo which airs at 4pm every Friday on Radio Maria. 

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. 

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Today Simon is joined by fellow Modern Slavery advocate Mark Little who received an MBE from the Queen for his work fighting modern slavery worldwide. Simon looks at the life of St Josephine Bakhita, who was herself a slave and is the patron saint of human trafficking and whose feast the Church celebrates on 8th Feburary, and what it is that inspires him to fight for the enslaved, whilst Mark shares some cases of slavery in Nepal and India where much of his work has been based. For more information see: www.rcdea.org.uk/caritas-east-anglia/modern-slavery/ . The Modern Slavery Helpline is 08000 121 700.

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 only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Enter the kingdom as a little child with Lucia and Maria Watson as they go through the Gospel readings for this Sunday's Mass.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY is put together for Radio Maria by Lucia Watson based on CAFOD’s Children’s Liturgy material.

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But if the Eucharist is truly Christ's flesh and blood surely it follows that this is cannibalism! Sr Carino and Tim tackle this question and others on this episode of Questions of Faith on Radio Maria.

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, religious brother or sister or lay evangelist on and the programme airs live on Fridays at 11:15am. 

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Jesus said the wise and faithful scribe was one who brought forth treasures both old and new. What would this look like with regards to the liturgy? Fr Łukasz Miśko from the Polish Dominicans shows us just that, and also explains an exciting way in which you can get involved and bring this beautiful liturgical project to your parish.

For more info: https://tinyurl.com/5ezr4mzh

MORNINGS WITH RADIO MARIA airs live every weekday at 9am, featuring a wide range of guests with interesting stories to tell and things to share. If you don’t already follow our live broadcasts, tune in on DAB in England or download the Radio Maria Play app and listen anywhere in the world. 

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Patrick and Joy of Joyful Hope TV talk about their family life, ministry and upcoming Conference in London from 7-9th February. Radical Conversion of Our Hearts will take place at Blessed Sacrament Church in collaboration with Cenacle Charismatic Prayer.

Registration is necessary and the cost is £30 for the Conference or £15 per day. Includes a free Healing Service at 6pm on Saturday 8th after the 6pm Mass, both of which are open to all. For more info: www.cenaclecharismatic.com

Fr Peter Wygnanski reflects about the daily choice for Christ.

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 (or in this case, a guest) offers a reflection, usually drawing from the Mass readings of the day. 

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What if your next date night could transform your marriage? Whether you're newlyweds or have spent decades together, Marriage Date Night is designed to help you reconnect, reflect, and renew your vows—not just in words, but in daily life. Join us as Therese Withers shares how this unique program, created by the Humanum Institute, brings couples closer to each other and their ultimate calling—heaven!

Stanford PHD, Charlotte speaks with Fr Toby about her research interests and points to three key factors behind the astonishing growth of the Society of Jesus in its early years.

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.

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Fr Toby reflects on the exhortation to shed blood in the avoidance of sin.

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. 

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Fr Toby and Tim go through The Religion of the Day, the sequel to Monsignor James Shea's From Christendom to Apostolic Mission.

MORNINGS WITH RADIO MARIA airs live every weekday at 9am, featuring a wide range of guests with interesting stories to tell and things to share. If you don’t already follow our live broadcasts, tune in on DAB in England or download the Radio Maria Play app and listen anywhere in the world.

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In this episode Ciro Candia explores the inner strengths and qualities that shape a true professional. ProParent is a programme that promotes confident parenting, written and presented by Ciro Candia, founder of ProParent Hubs.

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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Peter Wygnanski reflecting on the Feast of the Presentation of our Lord.

Fr Peter is the Private Secretary to the Bishop and Catholic Chaplain to the University of East Anglia.

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. 

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Ryan Christopher from 'Alliance Defending Freedom' examines how Catholics should respond to modern human rights' abuses in conversation with Ben Thatcher and Isabel Vaughan-Spruce.

Currently in the UK there are around a quarter of a million abortions every year – what’s our response to this? March for Life UK faces this issue with truth and compassion to help bring to an end the tragedy of abortion. 

Our public witness events, training days, YouTube channel, social media presence and talks both in the UK and abroad all help to create awareness of the hurt and damage abortion causes as well as promote respect for the dignity of every human life from the moment of conception.

Derek Williams continues his series through John's Gospel, today looking at John 1:43-51, the story of Nathaniel under the fig tree and his encounter with Jesus.

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. 

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Part I of Fr Toby's introduction to philosophy in which he explains that we all need to be philosophers and introduces us to metaphysics.

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.

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Derek continues his series on the Gospel of St John looking at the calling of the disciples by the river Jordan and John's declaration of Christ as the Lamb of God.

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. 

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Fr Toby reflects on the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord.

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. 

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Fr Toby on the astonishing intimacy with God offered in the New Covenant

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. 

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Enter the kingdom as a little child with Lucia and Maria Watson as they go through the Gospel readings for this Sunday's Mass.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY is put together for Radio Maria by Lucia Watson based on CAFOD’s Children’s Liturgy material.

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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Catherine Giuliano speaks to Tim Hutchinson about the wonder of icon painting.

MORNINGS WITH RADIO MARIA airs live every weekday at 9am, featuring a wide range of guests with interesting stories to tell and things to share. If you don’t already follow our live broadcasts, tune in on DAB in England or download the Radio Maria Play app and listen anywhere in the world.

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How much can be added or subtracted before a Mass stops being a Mass? What's the difference between acedia and sadness in the Desert Fathers? Why do we make the sign of the Cross on our forehead, lips and heart before the Gospel is said and when is giving to beggars unhelpful? Hear the answers to these questions with Fr Brendan Seery and Fr Toby 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, religious brother or sister or lay evangelist on and the programme airs live on Fridays at 11:15am. 

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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

With the introduction of the new translation of the lectionary various publications of the Missal for the everyday church goer have come out. Nick Swarbrick (whom you'll know from the Liturgical Looking Glass) reviews Hodder and Stoughton's brilliant Sunday Missal in conversation with Fr Toby.

MORNINGS WITH RADIO MARIA airs live every weekday at 9am, featuring a wide range of guests with interesting stories to tell and things to share. If you don’t already follow our live broadcasts, tune in on DAB in England or download the Radio Maria Play app and listen anywhere in the world. 

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Fr Toby on the beautiful charism of Don Bosco.

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. 

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Holy Sepulcher Church (also known as The National Musicians' Church) is doing amazing work to support the work of musicians and composers. Peter Asprey, the church's musical director, speaks to Tim Hutchinson about it on Mornings with Radio Maria.

MORNINGS WITH RADIO MARIA airs live every weekday at 9am, featuring a wide range of guests with interesting stories to tell and things to share. If you don’t already follow our live broadcasts, tune in on DAB in England or download the Radio Maria Play app and listen anywhere in the world. 

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Fr Toby and Tim go through The Religion of the Day, the sequel to Monsignor James Shea's From Christendom to Apostolic Mission.

MORNINGS WITH RADIO MARIA airs live every weekday at 9am, featuring a wide range of guests with interesting stories to tell and things to share. If you don’t already follow our live broadcasts, tune in on DAB in England or download the Radio Maria Play app and listen anywhere in the world.

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Fr Toby finishes his series by countering a final few objections.

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.

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Fr Toby on the importance of wonder in opening us up to the gifts 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. 

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Dominic McDermott speaks about a vision he has for the reunification of Christians starting with the oldest divisions among us, namely, the Jewish Christians.

Derek takes us through St John's Gospel giving a spiritual reflection on the verses as he goes.

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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side. 

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 only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Toby and Tim go through The Religion of the Day, the sequel to Monsignor James Shea's From Christendom to Apostolic Mission.

MORNINGS WITH RADIO MARIA airs live every weekday at 9am, featuring a wide range of guests with interesting stories to tell and things to share. If you don’t already follow our live broadcasts, tune in on DAB in England or download the Radio Maria Play app and listen anywhere in the world.

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In this episode, Dominic Chung and Elizabeth Lam from the Cantonese community in the Diocese of East Anglia explore the rich traditions of the Lunar New Year and its historical connection to Catholicism.

Fr Conor McDonough speaks to Fr Toby about the phenomenon of young people (especially young men) turning to Christianity through the influence of people like Jordan Peterson.

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 only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Toby shares insights from St Thomas Aquinas on the teaching of virtue from the Cross.

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. 

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Fr Toby looks at the argument concerning a sin offering at the Presentation

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 England by visiting www.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Nick Swarbrick, whom you'll all know from The Liturgical Looking Glass, recently spoke to Fr Toby about his experience using the new CTS Sunday Missal. Listen to their conversation here and find out what Nick thought of what the Catholic Truth Society has done to bring the new translation of the lectionary into print for the man and woman in the pew.

Fr Toby on Christ as true centre and prayer the way be which it holds for us here and now.

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.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Enter the kingdom as a little child with Lucia and Maria Watson as they go through the Gospel readings for this Sunday's Mass.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY is put together for Radio Maria by Lucia Watson based on CAFOD’s Children’s Liturgy material.

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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Toby on a very different attitude to life.

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. 

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Robby Dawkins is an international bestselling author and passionate church equipper from the US. Robby's heart is to raise up underground indigenous leaders to transform the most dangerous places on earth and he has operated in over 75 countries including Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Robby has also preached in Catholic contexts such as Encounter Ministries and he has ministered with Dr Mary Healy and Marcin Zielinski in Poland. To find out more visit www.robbydawkins.com.

Here on this episode of Diving Deeper he speaks about recognizing God's voice. 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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

The orientation of Christian life.

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. 

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Fr Toby on the importance of our attention and its intention.

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. 

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Autobiographical Apologetics - Ken Hensley of the Coming Home Network shares the story of his journey into the Catholic Church and talks about the work of CHN and their upcoming retreat at Ampleforth Abbey

The Irenaeus Project is a retreat centre, place of welcome, hospitality and prayer, and the Archdiocese of Liverpool's Centre for Spirituality and Outreach.

Fr Toby looks at the rich theology behind a seeming misnaming.

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.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

In Episode 29, Kate and her guest, poet Valerie Anthony, meander deep into the woods of metaphor, asking how the words a society stumbles into by misadventure shape the images we form of ourselves as humans. Discussing the gospel for the Feast of Saint Francis de Sales, 14th century poet Dafydd ap Gwilym's 'The Woodland Mass,' and choosing to replace machine metaphors with green metaphors, Val and Kate find hope in the small and fleeting, in naming the forgotten wildflowers, and in flashes of Christ's Light in dark places. With an original poem by Valerie Anthony called 'Everyday Miracles 1'.
Mentioned in the episode is Sarah de Nordwall's Bard School. See here for more information: www.sarahdenordwall.com
Music: Rock Bottom Riser by Bill Callahan (Smog)

Florilegium is a programme on Radio Maria which seeks to weave together liturgy, literature and  gardening in rambling, hopefully fruitful ways. It is written and presented by Kate Banks and Antonia Shack. You can follow them on SubStack at substack.com/@florilegiumpodcast 

About the Creators

Antonia leads a patchwork life with jobs including but not limited to mother, book designer, editor, actor and teacher. She and Kate began discussing poetry, liturgy and gardening at the Willibrord Fellowship reading group in London and are delighted to be continuing these conversations on Radio Maria. 

Kate is a teacher of Literature, Philosophy and Theology, with a particularly keen regard for the poet and artist David Jones around whom many of her studies and her teaching-subjects have been based. She also briefly worked as a gardener in London, though she now lives with her little boy on the river Exe in Devon.

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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Toby tells us why he think the fulness of life in Christ is found in the Catholic Church.

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 England by visiting www.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Toby on Mary's motherhood for each of us revealed at Cana.

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. 

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Lauren explores the rich history of the Catholic faith in the UK and designs immersive tours that guide participants through England’s history, highlighting the lives of English saints and martyrs. An American expatriate living in London, Lauren transitioned from over 12 years in the tech industry to pursue a passion for travel, history, and faith. Through extensive travels, she discovered a treasure trove of historical sites and "hidden" places that reveal how Catholicism endured after the English Reformation. These tours invite participants to uncover the past and experience the enduring legacy of faith in England.

Fr Toby looks at the Church Fathers on the participatory role of Mary, the New Eve, in redeeming the original sin of Eve.

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 England by visiting www.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Toby looks at how Eve receives her humanity completely from Adam and Jesus completely from Mary.

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 England by visiting www.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Enter the kingdom as a little child with Lucia and Maria Watson as they go through the Gospel readings for this Sunday's Mass.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY is put together for Radio Maria by Lucia Watson based on CAFOD’s Children’s Liturgy material.

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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Toby reflects on the Holy Family and the bigger vision of family in life in Christ.

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. 

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Does trusting God mean abandoning normal procedures, did the Incarnation 'change' God and is hypnosis and hypnotherapy condemned by the Church? Sr Carino answers these 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, religious brother or sister or lay evangelist on and the programme airs live on Fridays at 11:15am.

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Fr Toby looks at the parallels between the New Eve in the Protoevangelium and Mary in the Book of Revelation

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.

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Fr Toby looks at Old Testament Ark and the even greater splendour that is fitting for the Ark of the Living Word, Jesus Christ.

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.

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A Christian Evaluation of the Economy.

Edward Hadas continues his series on Anthropologically Sounds Economics.

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. 

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Fr Toby critiques ideologies as too small to contain us or sustain us and considers the living out of our vocation.

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. 

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To start off the New Year and over the feast of the Epiphany Fr Bernardino Soukup speaks to us about the hope of our salvation.

This talk was given on the 2nd of January 2025.

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From admiration to discipleship

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. 

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Fr Toby looks at Mary's role in the New Creation her Son brings about it.

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.

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Derek draws his catechesis on prayer to a close based on the Our Father in preparation for the Year of Jubilee.

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Fr Toby on the witness of the water, the blood, and the Spirit.

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. 

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Fr Toby reads us one of his favourite Christmas stories.

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.

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Drawing on St John of cross dark night to understand the nature of God's light.

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Fr Toby continues to look at Old Testament and its fulfilment in Mary conceived without sin.

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.

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Fr Toby reflects on the New Ordinary in Jesus Christ at the beginning of Ordinary Time.

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.

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Fr Toby on the Epiphany of the Lord`s Baptism.

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. 

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Nigel Walter of Archangel Architects discusses his practise and vision with Fr Toby, including his most recent book, Making Your Church Sustainable.

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Fr Toby continues to explore this rich dogma looking at Mary at the sinless, and therefore fitting, human tabernacle of the Lord.

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.

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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 Leader at ADoRE meetings since 2014, and we have recordings of him singing songs during each programme. He’s actually been involved with the renewal since 1983 and with ADoRE since 2007. Alastair is author of Pray as you can't - step by step into a more fruitful prayer life.

In the first programme, Alastair describes how, in response to a papal request no less, the Holy Spirit was poured out on Christians at the start of the last century. He charts the progress of the Catholic charismatic renewal, including its coming to Britain. Alastair also talks about Alton Day of Renewal, which celebrates 50 years in 2025.

In the second programme, Alastair tells listeners how to respond to the Holy Spirit's call, he brings us up to date on what the Holy Spirit is doing in the modern church, and describes the new challenges of an era in great need of evangelisation.

Key websites for both programmes are Charis UK and Alton Day of Renewal. Through the latter site, you can find out about the group's online and in-person meetings and access the YouTube channel which contains teachings and worship-resources.

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 Leader at ADoRE meetings since 2014, and we have recordings of him singing songs during each programme. He’s actually been involved with the renewal since 1983 and with ADoRE since 2007. Alastair is author of Pray as you can't - step by step into a more fruitful prayer life.

In the first programme, Alastair describes how, in response to a papal request no less, the Holy Spirit was poured out on Christians at the start of the last century. He charts the progress of the Catholic charismatic renewal, including its coming to Britain. Alastair also talks about Alton Day of Renewal, which celebrates 50 years in 2025.

In the second programme, Alastair tells listeners how to respond to the Holy Spirit's call, he brings us up to date on what the Holy Spirit is doing in the modern church, and describes the new challenges of an era in great need of evangelisation.

Key websites for both programmes are Charis UK and Alton Day of Renewal. Through the latter site, you can find out about the group's online and in-person meetings and access the YouTube channel which contains teachings and worship-resources.

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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. 

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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 - anything related to the faith, in other words. We usually have a priest, religious brother or sister or lay evangelist on and the programme airs live on Fridays at 11:15am. 

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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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.

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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. 

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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. 

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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 Radio Maria we hear about the problem of forced marriages.

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 through etymology, Greek translation, poetry and a discussion of naming plants, Jack and Kate turn over the linguistic artistry of Ed Mayhew's poem 'Siphon'.
Music: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child by Odetta

Florilegium is a programme on Radio Maria which seeks to weave together liturgy, literature and  gardening in rambling, hopefully fruitful ways. It is written and presented by Kate Banks and Antonia Shack. You can follow them on SubStack at substack.com/@florilegiumpodcast 

About the Creators

Antonia leads a patchwork life with jobs including but not limited to mother, book designer, editor, actor and teacher. She and Kate began discussing poetry, liturgy and gardening at the Willibrord Fellowship reading group in London and are delighted to be continuing these conversations on Radio Maria. 

Kate is a teacher of Literature, Philosophy and Theology, with a particularly keen regard for the poet and artist David Jones around whom many of her studies and her teaching-subjects have been based. She also briefly worked as a gardener in London, though she now lives with her little boy on the river Exe in Devon.

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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. 

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On the Epiphany Fr Joseph looks at the homilies of St John Chrysostom and St 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 studies in Patristics at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and his license at the Patristic Institute “Augustinianum” in Rome. Prior to entering seminary he worked as an investment banker. Having left the economy of Mammon for that of Salvation, he studied at the Pontifical North American College. A native of Ireland, he is a keen but mediocre (his words) surfer, and enjoys reading and cooking.

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. 

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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. 

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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 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 studies in Patristics at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and his license at the Patristic Institute “Augustinianum” in Rome. Prior to entering seminary he worked as an investment banker. Having left the economy of Mammon for that of Salvation, he studied at the Pontifical North American College. A native of Ireland, he is a keen but mediocre (his words) surfer, and enjoys reading and cooking.

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. 

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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 the faith, in other words. We usually have a priest, religious brother or sister or lay evangelist on and the programme airs live on Fridays at 11:15am. 

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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 commentary. 

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Author Fiorella de Maria tells the remarkable story of Mons Hugh O'Flaherty.

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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. 

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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.

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Fr Toby on the 'both/and' of the diaconate.

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. 

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Julie and Martha walk us through how Mary's Meals came about and the development of their new ministry for young people, Generation Hope.

Richard Harries, Brendan Timlin (Westminster President SVP) & Rocio Maguire (Development worker Caritas) JUST LIFE is a human formation programme brought to you by Radio Maria, airing on weekdays at 10am and rebroadcast at 10pm. 

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Originally from Ireland and now a tour guide in Međugorje Philip Ryan shares the story of more than 4 decades of living close to Our Lady.

AWAKENINGS airs on Radio Maria on the first Thursday of the Month at 10am and is rebroadcast at 10pm on the same day. The programme is usually facilitated by Fr Stefan Park and features the conversion stories and the journeys of faith of particular guests.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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Toby on the continuing miracle of the Incarnation and the Eucharist

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. 

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Fr Toby speaks to Veronica Scarpati about the power of God's beauty and the quiet beauty of candles and flowers, whisipering to us in the noise of the modern world, 'You were made for more!'

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.

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Edward Hadas completes 11 points describing the economy as part of his series, Anthropologically Sound Economics.

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. 

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A feast of introits amongst other things. Nick and Tim make a special midweek appearance to bring you some of the gems of Christmas chants, and then some.

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 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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Toby on the comingling of water and wine, pain and joy, and the hope of the Incarnation

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. 

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Fr Joseph Hamilton turns his attention for the first time on Patristic Pillars, to that towering figure in patristic literature, namely, Origen of Alexandria with a Christmas themed homily in time for our Lord's Nativity.

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 studies in Patristics at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and his license at the Patristic Institute “Augustinianum” in Rome. Prior to entering seminary he worked as an investment banker. Having left the economy of Mammon for that of Salvation, he studied at the Pontifical North American College. A native of Ireland, he is a keen but mediocre (his words) surfer, and enjoys reading and cooking.

Fr Toby and Helena review the new Netflix Film, Mary.

David Blake tells the story of his conversion in conversation with Fr Toby.

AWAKENINGS airs on Radio Maria on the first Thursday of the Month at 10am and is rebroadcast at 10pm on the same day. The programme is usually facilitated by Fr Stefan Park and features the conversion stories and the journeys of faith of particular guests. 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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Dr Dermot Kearney explains how he got involved in Abortion Pill Reversal and why he'll always be a voice of reason in a hostile world.

Currently in the UK there are around a quarter of a million abortions every year – what’s our response to this? March for Life UK faces this issue with truth and compassion to help bring to an end the tragedy of abortion. 

Our public witness events, training days, YouTube channel, social media presence and talks both in the UK and abroad all help to create awareness of the hurt and damage abortion causes as well as promote respect for the dignity of every human life from the moment of conception. 

We work to bring together the pro-life movement, educating and inspiring them to be pro-life not just in name but in their actions so that together we can flip the nation back to life!

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Fr Toby on the need to be joy-sharers and not pleasure-seekers.

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. 

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Fr Toby on a different sort of relationship with time for a more intentional Advent.

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.

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Fr Toby invites us into a different experience of time this Advent

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.

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How do we fix our sights on what is eternal within the busyness of city living, what's a Catholic to think about Halaal meat, how do I love myself and deny myself, and why does my parish have white Advent candles? Hear these questions answered 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, religious brother or sister or lay evangelist on and the programme airs live on Fridays at 11:15am. 

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Consolamini! The line that is hard to hear and keep a dry eye, especially in this version that Nick and Tim look at in this episode of the Liturgical Looking Glass that focuses on the 4th Sunday of Advent as well as today's O Antiphon. An episode not to be missed!

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.

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Turning his attention to something different for the Season of Advent, Fr Euan looks today at the longest Psalms.

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. 

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Catholic artist Rachel Moberly shares the story of her journey into the Catholic Church.

AWAKENINGS airs on Radio Maria on the first Thursday of the Month at 10am and is rebroadcast at 10pm on the same day. The programme is usually facilitated by Fr Stefan Park and features the conversion stories and the journeys of faith of particular guests.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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Toby looks at the instances of name changes in the Bible and what we learn from the appellation 'Hail, Fully of Grace' as he takes us deeper into the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.

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.

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Edward Hadas continues to describe the modern economic system and the 11 characteristics he has identified to outline it.

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. 

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Edward highlights 12 points that characterize the modern economy in this episode focusing a considerable amount on the modern economy with relation to authority.

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Fr Toby on the Virgin Birth and loving fatherhood.

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. 

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One half of the founding couple of Flax and Wax, William Field speaks to Tim about how he and his wife Eleanor came to be interested in making traditional beeswax candles and the importance of putting your hands to meaningful work.

MORNINGS WITH RADIO MARIA airs live every weekday at 9am, featuring a wide range of guests with interesting stories to tell and things to share. If you don’t already follow our live broadcasts, tune in on DAB in England or download the Radio Maria Play app and listen anywhere in the world. 

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Stefan Kaminski of the Christian Heritage Centre on the 'O Antiphons'

MORNINGS WITH RADIO MARIA airs live every weekday at 9am, featuring a wide range of guests with interesting stories to tell and things to share. If you don’t already follow our live broadcasts, tune in on DAB in England or download the Radio Maria Play app and listen anywhere in the world. 

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Joanne talks about her remarkable journey and how she has found meaning and vocation through art. Joanne's was part of Cafod's 'Giving in Unity' exhibition at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, London, during November and December. Originally from Manchester she lives in Scotland's Highlands.

JUST LIFE is a programme that encompasses all aspects of life and it airs live on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am, rebroadcast at 10pm the same day and on Saturdays at 11am and 8pm.

Radio Maria is on digital radio (DAB+) in selected regions, the Radio Maria Play app (Europe/England), our website live-player and via a smart speaker. (Selected regions: London, Cambridge, Bristol, South Birmingham, Liverpool, Greater Manchester, Stockport, Norwich, King’s Lynn and Peterborough.)

f you enjoyed this programme, please consider supporting us with a one-off or monthly donation. It is only through the generosity of our listeners that we are able to be a Christian voice by your side.  ⁠⁠www.radiomariaengland.uk⁠

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. 

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Fr Toby reflects on Zechariah's loss of voice and our own loss of hope using insights 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. 

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Fr Toby, in light of the Genealogy, asks who will write our stories?

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. 

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Fr Joseph presents one sermon on the story of Lazarus and the Rich Man delivered by one of the greatest preachers of the Patristic period.

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 studies in Patristics at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and his license at the Patristic Institute “Augustinianum” in Rome. Prior to entering seminary he worked as an investment banker. Having left the economy of Mammon for that of Salvation, he studied at the Pontifical North American College. A native of Ireland, he is a keen but mediocre (his words) surfer, and enjoys reading and cooking.

CREDO (currently hosting Patristic Pillars) 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.

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Fr Joseph Hamilton returns to St Cyprian to continue the theme on patience we began in the last episode with Tertullian.

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 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 studies in Patristics at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and his license at the Patristic Institute “Augustinianum” in Rome. Prior to entering seminary he worked as an investment banker. Having left the economy of Mammon for that of Salvation, he studied at the Pontifical North American College. A native of Ireland, he is a keen but mediocre (his words) surfer, and enjoys reading and cooking.

St Cyril of Jerusalem's Mystagogical Catechesis and the truth of the Eucharistic 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 studies in Patristics at Christ Church, University of Oxford, and his license at the Patristic Institute “Augustinianum” in Rome. Prior to entering seminary he worked as an investment banker. Having left the economy of Mammon for that of Salvation, he studied at the Pontifical North American College. A native of Ireland, he is a keen but mediocre (his words) surfer, and enjoys reading and cooking.

CULTURE TUESDAY - The Surrender Prayer - Creating a Routine and building a community.

John from https://surrenderprayer.weebly.com/ speaks about their newest project and the Surrender Prayer.

Fr Toby helps us to unpack the context and the how of the declaration of dogmas as he continues to look at the Immaculate Conception.

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.

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Part 30, and the finale of Fr Toby in Conversation with 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.

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Fr Toby reflects on the importance of place on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

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. 

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Fr Toby helps us go a little deeper into the significant of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.

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.

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Fr Toby on the difference the Eucharist could make.

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. 

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Robert Toone is a barrister, husband and father of four, with a particular interest in the Assisted Suicide legislation. In this Special he is joined by Dr Philippa Armstrong, a doctor who specialises in pain and palliative care, and Deacon Larry Worthern, a Catholic Deacon in Canada who gives a word of warning from a country that has already introduced similar laws. They examine the issues involved and the dangers of legalising choosing death as a right.

Radio Maria is on digital radio (DAB+) in selected regions, the Radio Maria Play app (Europe/England), our website live-player and via a smart speaker. (Selected regions: London, Cambridge, Bristol, South Birmingham, Liverpool, Greater Manchester, Stockport, Norwich, King’s Lynn and Peterborough.)

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In tonight's DIVING DEEPER Fr Hayden responds to Pope Francis' call to make 2024 a year of prayer, 'a symphony of prayer', inviting us to grow intensely in our prayer life and in our relationship with the Lord.

Fr Hayden Williams OFMCap is a Capuchin Friar, originally from Malta, currently living in a hermitage in Italy. He is an itinerant preacher.

DIVING DEEPER is programme in which we explore all aspects of our life of faith, aiming to go deeper. Live on Wednesdays at 8.30pm and rebroadcast on Wednesdays at 00.30am.

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Christmas is just around the corner, and what better way to inspire young hearts and minds than with the gift of a great book? At the beginning of Advent, Helena Judd, producer and host of Culture Tuesday on Radio Maria England, welcomed three incredible Catholic authors—Tammy Fernando, Madeleine Carroll, and Corinna Turner—to share their top picks for children and teens this Christmas. Whether you’re shopping for a budding bookworm or just looking for meaningful stocking stuffers, these authors have something special to recommend.

Multi-instrumentalist, conductor, choir director and choir constructor Matthew O'Keeffe gives us the second installment on what it takes to start a church choir from scratch.

MORNINGS WITH RADIO MARIA airs live every weekday at 9am, featuring a wide range of guests with interesting stories to tell and things to share. If you don’t already follow our live broadcasts, tune in on DAB in England or download the Radio Maria Play app and listen anywhere in the world. 

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Enter the kingdom as a little child with Lucia and Maria Watson as they go through the Gospel readings for this Sunday's Mass.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY is put together for Radio Maria by Lucia Watson based on CAFOD’s Children’s Liturgy material.

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Fr Toby on Peter Krefft's philosophy of wonder.

In this episode of Questions of Faith we welcome questions from St Edmund's in Ware among among others. Why did Jesus take so long to come into the world and if the world were destroyed by a meteor.... would God create a new one? Hear Fr Toby and Sr Hyacinthe's answers to these questions and others.

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, religious brother or sister or lay evangelist on and the programme airs live on Fridays at 11:15am. 

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 of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

Fr Dushan Croos SJ, the Jesuit priest in charge at Holy Name, and John Green, who is supporting fundraising efforts for the restoration works speak about this important project and why keeping our Churches preserved and restoring them can help restore and preserve the faithful that pray in those buildings.

In anticipation of the coming feast which marks the end of the liturgical year and the beginning of Advent, Fr Bernardino reflects on the Kingship of Christ.

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. 

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Speaking about something very close to his heart, conductor and choir-leader Matthew O'Keeffe shares with us what it means to start a parish choir from scratch.

MORNINGS WITH RADIO MARIA airs live every weekday at 9am, featuring a wide range of guests with interesting stories to tell and things to share. If you don’t already follow our live broadcasts, tune in on DAB in England or download the Radio Maria Play app and listen anywhere in the world. 

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Father Terry Martin, parish priest at St Mary of the Angels RC church in Worthing, will be holding a book launch next month, to mark the publication of his new book 'Animals in Heaven?' The launch and signing ceremony will take place at the church on Saturday 16th November at 10.45am, and will include a short musical recital, and a brief introduction to the book, followed by vegan refreshments, children's activities, and a fundraising raffle for Greek Animal Rescue: the rescue charity from which Fr Terry gave a home to his delightful, rescued spaniel, George. The new book provides a Catholic pastoral response to questions about animals and examines the way in which humans consider and treat other species of God's creation, while also asking how God intends humans to share planet earth with such a rich array and variety of animals. It has been a year in the research and writing and is now hot off the press for readers to consider their own personal Christian moral positions concerning non-human species. The event is free to attend, and all are welcome. Speaking about the impending launch Fr Terry commented: "This book has been a labour of love; I have done it for the animals. If I can contribute, even in a small way, to the conversation around how human beings consider animals, and encourage a gospel of kindness and compassion to all living beings, I will be thrilled." Christian academic theologian and animal welfare advocate Professor Andrew Linzey of Oxford University, who has written the foreword commented: "Fr Terry is doing a new thing. The special value of this book is the way in which it frankly addresses and explores the basic questions that many animal-regarding Christians ask about animals: Will they meet their companion animals again in heaven? Do animals have souls? Do animals have rights? What precisely does the Church teach?"

Our new President Inti Paolucci speaks to us about the all important topic of thanksgiving, drawing on scripture and the example of the saints.

Inti Paolucci, originally from Italy, became Radio Maria England's President in October 2024.

Fr Toby looks at the relentless commodification of all areas of life, including sex, and calls us reclaim the culture of the costly reception of gift

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. 

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Joseph Black speaks for Fr Toby about the founding of Craig Lodge and his own story of faith.

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.

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In Episode 26, Antonia and Kate enjoy the sumptuous sounds of Dylan Thomas’s silence in the “lulled and dumbfound town” of Llareggub. Reading from the gospel for Gaudete Sunday, they discuss baptism with water and baptism with fire and the Spirit, Carlo Carretto’s Letters from the Desert, and design imaginary Advent wreaths with findings from the forest.

Music: The Holly Bears a Berry by The Watersons

Florilegium is a programme on Radio Maria which seeks to weave together liturgy, literature and  gardening in rambling, hopefully fruitful ways. It is written and presented by Kate Banks and Antonia Shack. You can follow them on SubStack at substack.com/@florilegiumpodcast 

About the Creators

Antonia leads a patchwork life with jobs including but not limited to mother, book designer, editor, actor and teacher. She and Kate began discussing poetry, liturgy and gardening at the Willibrord Fellowship reading group in London and are delighted to be continuing these conversations on Radio Maria. 

Kate is a teacher of Literature, Philosophy and Theology, with a particularly keen regard for the poet and artist David Jones around whom many of her studies and her teaching-subjects have been based. She also briefly worked as a gardener in London, though she now lives with her little boy on the river Exe in Devon.

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Clare McCullough shares her own journey of starting the Good Counsel Network and her insights into the current abortion crisis.

Christmas Nativity Performance - Stephanie Pena and Charlotte de Klee (Producer and Trustee), Mary and Harry speak about this year's upcomgin Wintershall Nativitiy Production.

JUST LIFE is a human formation programme brought to you by Radio Maria, airing on weekdays at 10am and rebroadcast at 10pm. 

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Fr Toby on the Immaculate Conception.

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.

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In this episode, Ciro Candia explores how parents can strengthen themselves emotionally to better guide their teens, and fostering character formation in the face of modern challenges.

ProParent is a programme that promotes confident parenting, written and presented by Ciro Candia, founder of ProParent Hubs.

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Fr Toby on the strange seeming-limbo of our earthly pilgrimage.

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.

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Fr Toby on Charlie Brown's Christmas Story and love as the condition of trust.

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.

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Veronica Scarpati joins Fr Toby for an exploring the grace of conversion and the everyday struggle of Christian living afterwards.

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.

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Fr Toby contrasts the unbearable lightness of being and the weight of glory

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. 

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Part 29 of Fr Toby in Conversation with 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.

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If to exisit is, to some degree, be good by definition, is there then some goodness in the devil... and if so, does God love him?

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, religious brother or sister or lay evangelist on and the programme airs live on Fridays at 11:15am. 

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Fr Toby on the need to make Christ the foundation of our present

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. 

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Fr Toby shares a reflection from Fr Alfred Delp SJ in light of the passing of the Assisted Suicide Bill.

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.

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Br Reginald talks about how today’s first reading promises a fitting end to the story of salvation history which remedies the fall in Genesis.

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 (or a guest) offers a reflection, usually drawing from the Mass readings of the day. 

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Our slow walk through the Gospel of Matthew brings us now at last to the beginnings of the Passion Narrative. Fr Richard expounds on the the this chapter verse by verse.

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Enter the kingdom as a little child with Lucia and Maria Watson as they go through the Gospel readings for this Sunday's Mass.

CHILDREN’S LITURGY is put together for Radio Maria by Lucia Watson based on CAFOD’s Children’s Liturgy material.

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Edward Hadas continues to outline a vision of anthropologically sound economics. 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. 

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How are we to understand the contradictions found between the different accounts of the Gospels, or what are we to make of those who were said to live hudreds of years in the Old Testament? Br Reginald ansewrs these questions and others.

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, religious brother or sister or lay evangelist on and the programme airs live on Fridays at 11:15am. 

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Br Reginald reflects upon how the cross and resurrection provides meaning to days of distress in our time by giving us a sure hope for our glorification.

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. 

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In Episode 25, Antonia and Kate begin the year's ending and the new liturgical year's beginning by beginning at the end and working backwords. They discuss embodiment in place, geographical and historical map-making, whether Michael Donaghy has presented his dearest with a successful love poem or a clever failure, and land with a leap into the gospel reading for the First Sunday of Advent.

Music: a setting of the Coventry Carol by Sufjan Stevens and Marla Hansen

Florilegium is a programme on Radio Maria which seeks to weave together liturgy, literature and gardening in rambling, hopefully fruitful ways. It is written and presented by Kate Banks and Antonia Shack. You can follow them on SubStack at substack.com/@florilegiumpodcast

About the Creators

Antonia leads a patchwork life with jobs including but not limited to mother, book designer, editor, actor and teacher. She and Kate began discussing poetry, liturgy and gardening at the Willibrord Fellowship reading group in London and are delighted to be continuing these conversations on Radio Maria.

Kate is a teacher of Literature, Philosophy and Theology, with a particularly keen regard for the poet and artist David Jones around whom many of her studies and her teaching-subjects have been based. She also briefly worked as a gardener in London, though she now lives with her little boy on the river Exe in Devon.

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