October 8, 2010

First Joyful Mystery : the Annunciation - We share with you a musical programme focusing on the First Joyful Mystery of the Rosary: the Annunciation . As we pray the Rosary we're invited to meditate on the particular scene that the Mystery evokes, and to enter deeply into it as we recite the Our Father , the Hail Mary's and the Gloria Patri . Sometimes art can help us to focus our minds prayerfully on the Mystery , sometimes music can help . Music historian Monsignor Philip Whitmore in a programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick .
Jerusalem : key to peace - Days before the two week long Synod of Bishops dedicated to the Middle East due to open on Sunday 10th October in the Vatican , the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Fouad Twal, tells Tracey McClure how it all came about and reflects on some of the key issues he is called to deal with...
Faith Maps: Ten Religious Explorers - We share with you a conversation with Jesuit Father Michael Paul Gallagher who teaches Fundamental Theology at the Pontifical Gregorain University here in Rome, author of a book which focuses on ten theologians from John Henry Newman to Benedict XVI. A programme timed to coincide with the Feast Day of Blessed John Henry Newman which as the Pope announced in Birmingham on September 19th falls on the 9th October .
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