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A new programme on Radio Maria, working it's way week by week through the Catechism with Maria Bates, Sarah Morgan and Sr Linda of the Daughters of Divine Charity. This first episode sets the scene beginning with Section 1, paragraph 26: "I BELIEVE". Join these three on a journey through the Catechism in a relaxed, joy-filled and prayerful way.

Fr Toby on the friends who went up and through the roof.

In this week's episode Ciro Candia explores how excessive screen time can affect family life. The discussion offers insights and strategies for parents to manage and balance tech use in their homes. 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.

We welcome special guest, Joanna Bogle to dispel myths about Christmas, most notably, is Christmas actually Pagan? Fr Toby also has some valuable reflections on the topic and we even hear more about the significance of the Christmas tree.

We're back in ordinary time, but which Marian aniphon is proper to this season, as it's really still in an inbetween sort of place? Nick and Tim find a solution, and it's a good one. You'll also hear what Tim calls a "Vatican II bomber" (did be mean banger?) and perhaps too much said about silence - oh the irony. Here's the song list for those who want to see. 1. Alma Redemptoris mater - Ave regina caelorum, composed by Jasquin des Prez, performed by Weser-Renaissance Bremen and conducted by Manfred Cordes 2. I the Lord of Sea and Sky by Dan Shutte and sung by the Arundel and Brighton Diocesan Singers. 3. The Song of the Beloved by Fr Tansi from the album Garden 4. Hic Vir Despiciens Mundum from the album Victoria: O quam gloriosum est Regnum 5. Amavit eum Dominus by the Byrd Recorder Consort 6. Similabo eum viro sapienti played by Ensemble Correspondances on the album Charpentier: Messe à quatre chœurs - Carnets de voyage d'Italie

Fr Toby reflects on Marks account of the man with leprosy who asks if Jesus will heal 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.  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 how offensive today’s Gospel, with its restoration of life ‘only’ to serve, would be to Friedrich Nietzsche. 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.

We're back to Ordinary Time and Mary Hirst leads us through a lectio divina on the Gospel of the First Sunday of Ordinary Time, John 1:35-42 in which Jesus calls His disciples. Allow Mary and Aileen to lead you through this time of prayerful reading.

Florilegium is a programme which seeks to weave together liturgy, literature and  gardening in rambling hopefully fruitful ways.  In episode four Kate and Antonia journey into the epiphany with Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, ‘The Journey of the Magi’ by TS Eliot and the joy of bulbs in a winter garden.  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. Image: David Jones painting, Flora in Calix light. 

Florilegium is a programme which seeks to weave together liturgy, literature and  gardening in rambling hopefully fruitful ways.  In episode two Kate and Antonia gallop into ‘The Horses’ by Edwin Muir, Isaiah and throw in a bit of tool trivia.  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. Podcast Image: David Jones painting, Flora in Calix light.