radioalba.org christian schedule for the week of the 11th March 2018
The Morning half-hour at 8.00 is repeated every 30 minutes until noon.
8.00: Morning Prayers this week are led by Pat Graham SND, Fay Docherty, Joe Docherty, Rev Tom Pollock, and Michael Martin,with music by the St Mungo Singers, cantor Grace Buckley, harpist Noel Donnelly, organists Jane McKenna and Jacqueline Barrett.
The Morning Prayer for St Patrick’s Day (Saturday) is led by Pat Graham, SND with quotations from Patrick’s Letter to the soldiers of Coroticus.
8.15: The Lenten Morning Prayer for schools this week is led by Night Fever with pupils of St Mungo’s Academy singing Psalm 115.
8.21: Canon Bob Hill looks ahead to the 5th Sunday of Lent, and to the dialogue between Jesus and the Greek visitors in John 19: 20-33, and From the Committee of Inter Religious Dialogue – Mary Catherine O’Reilly speaks of fasting as a way of inter-faith solidarity.
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lunchtime half-hour
12.00 noon: the Scottish Catholic Observer writes of: Scottish Catholic support for Syria, parish Closures in Edinburgh, young people and the church, and how the various political parties view Catholic schools.
12.15: Prayers with the Bereaved.
12.30: Music from the archives
18.00: a repeat of the lunchtime half-hour
18.30: music from the archives
Evening Hour – repeated at 21.00 and 22.00:
20.00: Evening Prayer this weeks led by Robin Green with music by the St Mungo Singers, Harpist Noel S Donnelly and organists Jane McKenna and Jacqueline Barrett.
20.20: Magazine : For the 4th Sunday of Lent, Gerry Fitzpatrick reads a letter from Bishop Joseph Toal of SCIAF; Mary Catherine O’Reilly gives an update from the Committee for Inter-religious Dialogue; Michael Martin reads Mary Cullen’s article from Open House on Glasgow’s Homeless Jesus sculpture. And finally we hear two articles from the Columban magazine ‘Vocation for Justice,’ and the Pax Christi Prayer for Peace.
20.50: Daily Night Prayer (Compline)
