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Fr Toby speaks with Judy May about the mission of KOVA International to bring more of the Gospel to our theatres and screens

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 need to keep the relationship alive.

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 13 of Derek Williams's series "When you pray" based on the Our Father in preparation for the year of Jubilee.

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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Radio Maria is preparing its 3rd Christmas Play, written by Edmund Matyjaszek who comes on today to talk to Tim about the script and the carols that will accompany it. Don't miss the live performance and broadcast of this play! Sunday, 15th of December, after the 5pm Mass at the Rosary Shrine in London on Southampton Rd.

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 Good News of the End Time Passages.

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 talks to London-born Fr Paschal about all things Catholic in contemporary Britain. Fr Paschal is Assistant Priest for the Chelmsford Parishes in the Diocese of Brentwood and Chaplain to the Youth Service.

The MARIATHON is a unique fundraising event where we raise funds and deepen our connection with you, our listeners. It’s a time of thanksgiving. Throughout Mariathons, you’ll have the chance to engage our team, learn more about our work, and discover ways you can become involved. This year our target was £30 000. With your generosity we were able to exceed this target and raised £42 000. We are incredibly grateful to all our listeners for their contributions.

B sides of 27 continues exploring the beautiful work of singer-songwriter from Saskatchewan, Kay Clarity and tracing her work from Poetic Folk to her new Pop Music persona Pax Paloma, developed in her new location in LA (www.kayclarity.art).

And seriously, you’re gonna dance when you hear some of this gorgeously produced, clean pop album, launched on All Saints Day this year - “Songs for the Apocalypse” (available on all the usual platforms).

We all need a horizon of hope. And the music industry and the billions of people who are influence by it need one more than ever.

But it can be a lonely business taking that on - one woman, one guitar and a big sky.

Listening to, investing in and promoting our fellow Christian creatives, who are bringing beauty into the culture, are solid acts of evangelisation.

So let’s transform our culture, one song, one poem and one album at a time.

And don’t miss “Victory Cry” from the new album; it’s her favourite. Videos available on youtube.

This episode features John Pontifex, Head of Press and Public Affairs with Amy Balog, Press Officer.

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 Anja 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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Talia Dean speaks with Fr Toby about faith, her new single, and a new direction in her music.

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.

This is episode of The Liturgical Looking Glass features a nice sample of the things that Nick and Tim love to showcase: meditations on the texts from introits, profound collects, a wide range of musical settings and at the same time a fair dose of plainchant. Mostly the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary time informs the decisions here but an antiphon from St Albert's feast makes a significant appearance too.

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.

Part 27 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.

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.

Outlining a vision of anthropologically sound economics with Edward Hadas.

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 Bernardino teaches on the gift of final perseverance.

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 the need to use words that give 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 remarkable figure of St Albert the Great 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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Our love for neighbour, God with us in suffering and the Holy Souls in Purgatory - all this and more in this week's teaching from Fr Bernardino. Fr Bernardino is a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal at St Patrick's Friary, Limerick, Ireland.

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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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.

Part 26 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.

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.

Director of Youth 2000, Jade Broadley, tells the story of her journey in faith and the songs that have marked the way.

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.

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.

Fr Toby on the need to remember to give thanks.

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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Kate and Antonia read from Mark 13:24-32, for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary time. They delve into different propositions for the argument of ‘who is saved?’ looking at George Macdonald and Hans Von Balthasars perspectives. They move onto George Barker’s ‘Sonnet To My Mother’, and a Catholic/Calvinist way of being in the world before turning back to time in the garden, how we intervene in nature as accelerators or decelerators, succession planting and stories that teach children what they can and can’t eat… Find and subscribe to all our episodes and articles on Substack @Florilegiumpodcast https://substack.com/@florilegiumpodcast

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.

Our economy has moved the vast majority away from the hard labour that once characterized human life, but has it made it more human?

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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Is Halloween all evil? What do Catholic believe about the Rapture and end times? And if it's wrong to kill, why did God ask Abraham to sacrifice Isaac? Fr Luke Goymour and Sr Carino answer these questions on today'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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Deacon Larry Oney is a permanent Deacon for the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans. He is an accomplished business executive, community and spiritual leader, a published author and an internationally-recognised speaker. Alongside his wife Andi, he co-founded Hope and Purpose Ministries, touching lives around the world. In this episode of Diving Deeper, Deacon Larry speaks about the need for repentance in our nations, before revival can come.

Date of broadcast: 2024-10-30

Radio Maria England is proud to have a close affiliation with the Dominicans since its beginning 5 years ago. In this broadcast we welcome Fr Gerard Timoner, the Master of the Dominican Order, to share his story.

Fr Bernardino is a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal based in Limerick, Ireland.

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.

Fr Toby on the courage and compassion of St Josaphat.

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.

Fr Toby reflects tells us about 24-7 prayer and the greatest prayer of all, the Mass.

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.

Episode 27, both A and B sides, are devoted to exploring the beautiful work of singer-songwriter from Saskatchewan, Kay Clarity and tracing her work from Poetic Folk to her new Pop Music persona Pax Paloma, developed in her new location in LA. And seriously, you’re gonna dance when you hear some of this gorgeously produced, clean pop album, launched on All Saints Day this year -“Songs for the Apocalypse” on all the usual platforms. We all need a horizon of hope. And the music industry and the billions of people who are influence by it need one more than ever. But it can be a lonely business taking that on - one woman, one guitar and a big sky. Listening to, investing in and promoting our fellow Christian creatives, who are bringing beauty into the culture, are solid acts of evangelisation. So let’s transform our culture, one song, one poem and one album at a time. And don’t miss “Victory Cry” from the new album; it’s her favourite. Videos available on youtube.

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.

Heather Tomlinson talks to Fr Toby about the proposals to introduce assisted suicide.

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

In this month's episode, Ciro explores the complexities of parenting teenagers, offering fresh insights for building strong, lasting relationships with your teenager, even when the waters seem murky!

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.

In anticipation of the new lectionary together with a publication of the freshly composed psalm settings Nick and Tim have a chance to hear from Matthew Ward and the work he's done to set the new translation of the Psalms to music for the three year cycle.

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 Sigrid Undset and All Souls

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.

Dr Louise Jones ran the Marie Curie unit at the Royal Free Hospital. She shares her thoughts on assisted suicide in conversation with Fr Toby.

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 All Saints of the Order of Preachers.

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.

Fr Toby on Jesus's perplexing words of hatred for all things.

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.

Fr Toby on the many ways we refuse our invitation to the Banquet.

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.

Fr Toby on the necessity but insufficiency of manuals.

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.

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.

John and Amy introduce us to Aid to the Church in Need's biennial Persecuted and Forgotten report, launched just this week in Parliament. From the attack on Churches in Jaranwala to a story of forced conversion and marriage in Egypt, is persecution of Christians worsening worldwide and what can we do to help? John Pontifex is Head of Press and Public Affairs and Amy Balog is Press Officer at ACN, Aid to the Church in Need, a Pontifical Foundation of the Catholic Church supporting Christians wherever they are oppressed or in need.

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.

This week Derek takes us further into the importance of forgiveness and how it can lead to both inner and physical healing. Derek Williams is a lay evangelist with a passion for preaching the Word of God. He has taught weekly on Radio Maria for over two years.

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.

Dr Charles Wilson, who is stepping down as President of Radio Maria after years of dedicated service, introduces new President Inti Paolucci. Inti reflects on his faith journey which has brought him to this point. A warm welcome to Inti and a blessed term as President.

The Inklings authored some of the most important books in the English language in the 20th century. This group of friends included famous writers such as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield and Charles Williams, as well as others, who met in Oxford through the central decades of the 20th century to read and discuss literature together. This talk explores some of their key ideas, through their understanding of friendship, imagination and myth.

Pablo Ulises Rodríguez Jordá is currently a PhD student in philosophy at the University of the Basque Country and a part-time lecturer at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid. His research centres on the interaction between language and thought from the interdisciplinary paradigm of the cognitive sciences. He has a great interest in all things linguistic and 20th century English literature, especially in relation to the literary world of the Inklings.

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.

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.

We welcome the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Movement on today's JUST LIFE with Liz Ansah, National Coordinator, who is joined by Scottish representative Pauline Gallagher. Based on the private revelations given to Hungarian Elisabeth Kindelmann starting in the 1960s, the Flame of Love Movement is becoming increasingly well-known. www.flameoflove.org.uk

JUST LIFE is a programme that encompasses a wide range of everyday topics, broadcasting live on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, rebroadcast 10pm, and Saturday 11am and 8pm.

If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a one off or monthly donation to Radio Maria. It is only through the generous support of our listeners that we are able to be a Christian voice by your side. ⁠www.radiomariaengland.uk

We're delighted to welcome back to Radio Maria author Fiorella de Maria. Today she talks to us about her new book Courage Under Fire: Father Willie Doyle SJ, Priest and Hero of the First World Warbringing to life for us a lesser known figure of tremendous courage and holiness. Fiorella lives in leafy Surrey in the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton. As well as being an author, she is a mother of four.

JUST LIFE is a programme that encompasses a wide range of everyday topics, broadcasting live on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, rebroadcast 10pm, and Saturday 11am and 8pm.

If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a one off or monthly donation to Radio Maria. It is only through the generous support of our listeners that we are able to be a Christian voice by your side. www.radiomariaengland.uk

This episode turned into something of a meditation on the Beatitudes as we consider - and celebrate - all those who have gone before us in the faith.

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.

The complex ecosystem of the swamp and the even greater complexity of governing human affairs.

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.

Fr Toby reflects on the (unexpected) wisdom of praying to be numbered among the uncanonized saints.

This episode of Word for Today is a throwback to Word for Today for All Saints Day, 2022.

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.

Today Fr Stephen Fawcett joins Isabel Vaughan-Spruce and Ben Thatcher to talk about his work in the pro-life movement, the spiritual battle that those who engage in pro-life work face, and the supernatural joy that breaks through otherwise insurmountable difficulties.

This month Fr Richard opens up the three parables in chapter 25: the ten bridesmaids, the talents, the sheep and the goats. Fr Richard Ounsworth is the Prior and Parish Priest of the Priory of the Holy Cross in Leicester.

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.

Adelaide di Maggio is Policy and Research Analyst for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales. In this episode of Mornings with Radio Maria she speaks to Fr Toby about the importance of opposing the movement to pass a bill that will legalize Assisted Suicide.

Fr Toby on how we might elevate mundane rituals with prayer making them part of spiritual warfare.

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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Simon John makes a special appearance to speak about the problem of slavery during Anti Slavery Week.

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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Part 25 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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The life worth living is worth dying for - Fr Toby on the martyrdom of Bl Terence and Bl Peter, Dominican martyrs of Ireland.

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 Edward defines the economy as the humanizing of the world through a cycle of labour, consumption and production. 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 Bernardino encourages us to get to get to know Jesus and to pick up the weapon of the rosary, so as to be a powerful intercessor in this world. Fr Bernardino is a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal at St Patrick's Friary in Limerick, Ireland.

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How do explain the existence of God to non-believers? Fr Toby tackles this question 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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Fr Toby speaks with Madeline Page about the dangers of the new bill on 'Assisted Dying'. 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 Kingdom of God within us

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 chapter in which someone complains,' is how Fr Euan described where we are in the Book of Job. Although this hardly narrows it down, the meandering dialogues in this ancient text are truly fascinating. Fr Euan draws out the hidden meanings chapter by chapter.

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Antonia and Kate discuss the reading from the the book of Apocalypse for the feast of All Saints. They read Helen Dunmore’s poem ‘convolvulus’ a poem which looks like its about bindweed - but of course there is always more going on than that. Until we get to Kate's allotment and discussions of garden thugs where bindweed really is taking over. Music: 81 by Joanna Newsom.

We have also got a new SubStack where all our episodes are uploaded after airing on Radio Maria and we are writing articles related to the different episodes. Find and subscribe on SubStack https://substack.com/@florilegiumpodcast 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.

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 John Newton and our spiritual and moral blindness.

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 Euan takes us through the book of Job chapter by chapter.

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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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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Part 11 of Derek Williams's series "When you pray" based on the Our Father in preparation for the year of Jubilee.

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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Shadows: Visible & Invisible: 5 (Catholic Teen Books Visible & Invisible Anthology Series). Corinna Turner speaks about a new "Hallowtide" Young adult book written by 7 Catholic authors for teens.

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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Marie Fahy speaks to Maria Toone about ACN's campaign to get 1 million children praying the Rosary.

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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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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Fr Euan continues his series through the book of Job, sometimes strange, sometimes perplexing, always interesting.

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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Fr Toby on the reality that forgiveness sometimes still hurts.

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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Did you know that some verses in your modern-day Bible may have been missed out, or relegated to being made into footnotes? Join us in our discovery of the true power of forgiveness, as Sean walks us through these hidden verses. Sean Booth is a lay member of Mother Teresa's Order, the Missionaries of Charity, and has recently completed a theology degree, a Bachelors of Divinity from Maryvale. He is also a member of the Men of St Jospeh, who are working and praying for the re-conversion of England to the Catholic faith.

Grainne Fradd on her journey in faith and the help of Radio Maria.

The MARIATHON is a unique fundraising event where we raise funds and deepen our connection with you, our listeners. It’s a time of thanksgiving. Throughout the Mariathon, you’ll have the chance to engage our team, learn more about our work, and discover ways you can become involved. This year our target was £30 000. We well exceeded this target and would like to thank all our listeners who contributed so generously.

To commemorate the feast day of this remarkable pope and saint of our time Joanna Bogle joins us on Just Life to speak about pontificate of Pope St John Paul II, increasingly being known as Pope St John Paul the Great. 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 what he learned from the walls of the churches in Rome.

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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Rebekah Varela on Britain's most recent saint whose feast we celebrated on 9th October, St John Henry Newman. Originally from Canada, Rebekah is a Researcher at the University of St Andrew's in Scotland, specialising in theology and the arts. The MARIATHON is a unique fundraising event where we raise funds and deepen our connection with you, our listeners. It’s a time of thanksgiving. Throughout the Mariathon, you’ll have the chance to engage our team, learn more about our work, and discover ways you can become involved. This year our target was £30 000. We well exceeded this target and would like to thank all our listeners who contributed so generously.

After a bit of a hiatus in his weekly series on the Church Fathers Fr Joseph Hamilton is joined by Fr Toby in Rome to speak about synods in the life of the Church.

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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Part 3 of Sean Booth's series on the hidden things of the Bible, focusing this week on Healing.

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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John Green from the Jesuit Institute joins us on Just Life to share about their work in prisons and the importance of Prisoners' Sunday.

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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Ryan shares with Maria Toone what it was like to grow up as a Catholic in Singapore. From teenage angst to disciple of Jesus, he shares his journey of transformation through the Holy Spirit.

AWAKENINGS is which 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 Bernardino continues his catechesis on prayer and the spiritual life.

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 Euan takes us through the book of Job chapter by chapter.

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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Fr Toby on Liam Payne of One Direction and how easily it can go so wrong.

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 welcome Fr Łukasz Miśko from the Polish Dominicans to join us this week on the Liturgical Looking Glass, guest-hosted by Anna Fleischer and presented by Nick Swarbrick.

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 Richard Ounsworth takes us chapter by chapter through the book of St Matthew.

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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Sr Catherine of the Community of Our Lady of Walsingham continues her series on the virtues. 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 3 of Anthropologically Sound Economics by Edward Hadas - a series within Edward's broader weekly talks on Christian Anthropology, delivered every Friday at 4pm 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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A broadcast from our recent Mariathon which aimed raise £30 000 through the generocity of our wonderful listeners - a goal we are happy to say our listeners well exceeded. Kate Banks from Florilegium here speaks to Fr Toby.

Eucharist Source and Summit of Christian Life: Part 10 of Derek William's catechesis on the Our Father in preparation for the Church's year of Jubilee.

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 our ways of self-deception and seeing ourselves truly 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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In anticipation of the upcoming workshop given at the Rosary Shrine on Saturday the 26th of October, Grace Feltoe joins us to talk about the important work that the Dominicans in Poland are doing to bring new liturgy to the fore that draws from the Catholic Church's rich tradition. To find out more about the workshop and to register visit: https://rosaryshrine.co.uk/calendar/

Antonia and Kate return with Louis MacNiece, to discuss parts of his long poem ‘Autumn Journal’ the lure of romanticism and why we shouldn’t be taken in completely. We read from Romans 8:22-27 for the feast of St Theresa of Avila and discuss the concept of time in relation to gardening and how gardens naturally challenge our typical perceptions of productivity and efficiency.

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.

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.

In Episode 26 of the Bardcast we begin with Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah and then consider the turning point of the incarnation, through a midrash style dialogue poem The Making of Mankind.

In a lighthearted style, this imagined dialogue between God and Lucifer explores the enthusiasm God has for life and the glowering cynicism and “proposal” of Lucifer.

We reflect on the value of returning to our early work and seeing the “call” in the themes that have inspired our “interpretive act” that is the gift of writing.

A writing prompt follows and you are encouraged to send in a dialogue.

The version of God and Luci that you’ll hear on the Bardcast is taken from Sarah's CD “Lipstick is a Spiritual Experience” that is available on https://sarahdenordwall.com/shop/

A monthly series with Caritas, the national Catholic development and relief agency, looking at Pope Benedict’s first encyclical Deus Caritas Est, in the run up to its 20th anniversary next year during the Year of Jubilee. Richard Harries, CEO of Caritas Westminster looks back at the last few years and where Catholic social action is working, as well as considering what the future might hold. In this second episode Richard is joined by Ben Gilchrist, CEO of Caritas Shrewsbury and national advocacy lead for Caritas Social Action Network. JUST LIFE is a programme that encompasses a wide range of topics touching on everyday life, airing on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 10am, rebroadcast at 10pm, and Saturdays at 11am and 8pm. Radio Maria is on digital radio in selected regions, the Radio Maria Play app, our website live-player and via a smart speaker.

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