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A ten-year-old from County Antrim asks Fr Darren Brennan how to pick a confirmation saint, and he suggests it might work the other way around, that the saints choose us first. He shares why St Jude, St Patrick and St Louis de Montfort have each stayed close to him since childhood, and what picking a saint's name is actually supposed to commit you to. L'articolo Little Big Questions – Picking a Confirmation Saint – Carmela and Fr. Darren Brennan proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Adrian Crowley reflects on the Holy Spirit as helper, counsellor, comforter and advocate, and tells the story of a young Karol Wojtyla spending six hours prostrate before the tabernacle in an unfamiliar convent chapel the night before he was made a bishop. He closes with love poured out for Mary in the words of Padre Pio and the Curé of Ars, and a meditation on the kind of faith Jesus called great enough to work miracles. L'articolo Catechesis – Six Hours Before the Tabernacle – Fr Adrian Crowley proviene da Radio Maria.

Steve Barberieri talks to Fr Mark Wharton, an English convert whose path to the priesthood began by accident, sitting through two hours of Eucharistic Adoration because he didn't realise he was allowed to leave, ahead of the Abide women's conference in Bundoran this November. They trade stories of saints who spoke to God with startling familiarity, St Therese telling Jesus he owed her tenderness, Mother Elvira refusing to leave a chapel until she got her convent, and what it means to simply put people in front of the Blessed Sacrament and get out of the way. L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – Boldness Before the Blessed Sacrament – Naoimh Barbieri and Fr Mark Wharton proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Eamon McCarthy and Matthias Conneely continue their close reading of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, working through its warnings on AI: the environmental cost of data centres, algorithms that quietly decide who is worthy of a loan, a job, or mercy, and why the Church insists no such system can ever be morally neutral. They land on the question of who actually answers for an AI's mistakes, from a self-driving car's crash to a chatbot's bias, and why the Pope is calling for a deliberate slowdown rather than a ban. L'articolo Who Answers for the Algorithm?– Magnifica Humanitas – Church Wisdom with Fr Eamonn McCarthy & Matthias Conroy proviene da Radio Maria.

Mary Houton and Fr Eamon McCarthy read the parable of the labourers in the vineyard, the workers hired at dawn who grumble when latecomers are paid the same, and ask which worker in the story we'd honestly admit to being. Fr Eamon brings in an open AA meeting he'd attended that same evening, and what it means to hear someone testify to a mercy they know they didn't earn. L'articolo Gospel Tidings – The Eleventh Hour: Unearned Mercy – Mary Hooton and Fr Eamonn – 25th Sunday OT [Year A] proviene da Radio Maria.

Deacon Don Devaney talks to Fr Mark Goring ahead of Walk the Cross, a 33-mile pilgrimage, a mile for each year of Christ's life, that will end this year for the first time inside Croke Park, where Ireland will be consecrated to the Sacred Heart. Fr Mark, a Canadian priest and prominent YouTube evangelist, talks about signs of revival he's spotted among young people, and why he sees the stadium's place in Irish life as part of the point. L'articolo Walk the Cross to Croke Park – Fr Mark Goring and Deacon Don Devaney proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Peter George Flynn tells the story of St Joseph of Cupertino, a disaster in the monastery kitchen who became, almost against the odds, a priest, and then a levitating one at that, witnessed by sceptics, visiting princes, and at least one future king. Fr Peter explains why the Church canonised him for his holiness rather than his flying, and how this obscure patron saint of exam students quietly shaped his own path to the Franciscan order. L'articolo The Franciscan Hour – Joseph of Cupertino: Why The Flying Friar Was Canonised – Fr Peter George Flynn OFMConv proviene da Radio Maria.

Carmella talks to Gary Wade about his book on Seamus Heaney's Catholicism, and a discovery in Heaney's own archives that changes how you read his most famous poem: an early draft line, later cut, comparing potato peelings falling into a bucket to a brimming ciborium. Gary also tells the story of a letter Heaney faxed to theologian Eamon Duffy in 2001 that sat unread for twenty years, and what it reveals about a faith Heaney described not as lost outright but as an ache that never let go. L'articolo Northern Soul – Seamus Heaney’s Catholicism – Carmela Cosgrove and Gary Wade proviene da Radio Maria.

Deacon Thady talks to Marguerite Hamilton of the Columba Community in Derry about 45 years of a lay community built on waiting for direction rather than forcing it, from a prison ministry during the Troubles to the White Oaks addiction treatment centre and a Celtic Prayer Garden that only found its site after they'd given up looking. Marguerite describes the community's weekly prayer meeting as its powerhouse, and makes the case for what she calls the Church's sleeping giant, the laity, waking up. L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – The Sleeping Giant of the Church – Deacons Thady O’Connor and Marguerite Hamilton proviene da Radio Maria.

Mary Stenson previews the Legion of Mary's pilgrimage to Knock and the arrival of the relics of St Therese of Lisieux and her parents in October, then reads a 1965 letter from Pope Paul VI to Frank Duff and a passage from Duff's biography about the toughness required to run a homeless hostel on Dublin's Morning Star Lane. Along the way: the daily quote from Frank Duff himself, and how a Legion presidium in West Africa once made it to daily Mass by canoe, bicycle, and an eighteen-mile fast. L'articolo All Things Legion – Canoe, Bicycle and Eighteen-Mile Fast to Get to Mass – Mary Stenson proviene da Radio Maria.