Episode Details

Neve Barbieri welcomes her old friend Fr. Eamonn O’Connor of Strokestown Parish, Elphin Diocese, for a warm Easter Saturday conversation. Fr. Eamonn recalls the seeds of his vocation, his grandfather’s early words, a priest visiting his secondary school classroom with a form asking who might tick the box, and his formation at Kilteagan and Maynooth, ordained with three others in Sligo Cathedral in 1983. He describes his first trip to Medjugorje in 1987 and his initial scepticism, until an answer given by visionary Vicka (that Our Lady is present wherever Mass is celebrated throughout the world) convinced him it was genuine. He speaks warmly of Fatima as his current favourite shrine and of Knock’s apparition chapel and reconciliation room.

Naoimh shares her own Medjugorje story of sensing Our Lady calling her back to Knock from a warm balcony with a toddler and a newborn. Fr. Eamonn also reveals a little-known fact about his curate Fr. Vincent, a Nigerian priest-composer who won a Commonwealth competition for a piece performed in London with a full orchestra. They subsequently discuss local religious broadcasting on Shannonside and Northern Sound FM, Divine Mercy Sunday, and the Acts of the Apostles as the great Easter reading. The show closes with Liam O’Flynn’s Galician processional piece on uilleann pipes, chosen by Fr. Eamonn as his expression of the resurrection.

L'articolo RM Breakfast Show – The Call of Our Lady – Naoimh Barbieri and Fr Eamonn O’Connor proviene da Radio Maria.