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Naoimh Barbieri welcomes Fr Marius O'Reilly back to the Breakfast Show to talk about the First Saturdays devotion asked for at Fatima, and the national conference coming to Knock on 28 November. Fr Marius tells of a boy Sister Lucia met while taking out the rubbish at her convent in Spain, and of a Japanese man who told a Catholic priest that war in the world was his fault. Naoimh, who grew up going to Mass with her mother on first Saturdays without ever quite knowing why, asks what the devotion really involves, and whether children can manage fifteen minutes of meditation.

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L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – The First Saturdays: Keeping Company for Fifteen Minutes – Naoimh Barbieri and Fr Marius O’Reilly proviene da Radio Maria.

On the eve of All Saints, Matthias Conroy talks to Bishop Denis Nulty of Kildare and Leighlin about the saints who have walked with him through his life, from the namesake his family has passed down for generations to the Hill of Slane a few kilometres from where he grew up. The bishop explains why he chose the feast of St John Vianney for his own ordination, which saint came out on top when Ireland voted for its favourite at the Ploughing, and which uncanonised people he still talks to every morning and evening. He closes with a litany of the saints of his diocese.

L'articolo The Saints We Choose and the Saints Who Choose Us – Bishop Denis Nulty proviene da Radio Maria.

Fr Adrian Crowley continues his series on the saints as teachers, asking what each one has to show us about ordinary life. He moves from St Ignatius, bedbound for six months after a cannonball broke his leg, to St Thérèse and her little way, and on to Matt Talbot, whose turning point came on the night his friends refused to stand him a drink. Along the way come a soldier's tearful encounter with St Jacinta of Fatima, the advice St Philip Neri gave his priests about choosing what to read, and Fr Adrian's own memories of making the Spiritual Exercises in the Philippines.

L'articolo Catechesis – Only Reading Authors Beginning with S – Frs Adrian Crowley and John Hogan proviene da Radio Maria.

Matthias Conroy rejoins Church Wisdom to finish chapter three of Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas and open chapter four, paragraphs 127 to 134. The discussion turns on the document's claim that we become fully human only by becoming more than human, and on the suggestion that the trouble with transhumanist dreams may be that they don't go far enough. From St Augustine's two cities the conversation moves to truth as a common good, Hannah Arendt on the ideal subjects of totalitarian regimes, and what an AI-driven election campaign in the United States and a student movement in Serbia reveal about where democracy stands.

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L'articolo Why Transhumanism Doesn’t Aim High Enough – Magnifica Humanitas – Church Wisdom with Fr Eamonn McCarthy & Matthias Conroy proviene da Radio Maria.

Mary and Fr Eamonn McCarthy turn to the Beatitudes for the feast of All Saints, beginning with a listener's caution about asking someone in great pain to "offer it up." Fr Eamonn takes on the most puzzling of the promises, happy those who mourn, and asks how people without faith get through bereavement at all. Mary brings in the great multitude of Revelation 7 and an image of the Church as a ship in a storm, and Fr Eamonn makes a plea on behalf of the Holy Souls, including a frank estimate of how he expects to get into heaven himself.

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L'articolo Gospel Tidings – Happy Those Who Mourn? – Mary Hooton and Fr Eamonn – All Saints’ Day [Year A] proviene da Radio Maria.