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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.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 extols the benefits of walking the Camino as testing for marriage and training for lifeWORD 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 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.If 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

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. If 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.

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. 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.

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 CreatorsAntonia 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.