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Episode 04 — Coming Soon, with Ciaran Wright

Ciaran Wright, legionary of the Our Lady Queen of Peace Praesidium and guest of Episode 04
Ciaran Wright Legionary · Our Lady Queen of Peace Praesidium
Episode 04 · Coming Soon

The Seven Months Between

He came to his first Legion meeting in July 2022 — and did not come back until February 2023. In the fourth conversation, Ciaran Wright tells the story of those seven months, and of what finally brought him through the door a second time.

On the guest

Ciaran Wright is forty-one, and a legionary of the Our Lady Queen of Peace Praesidium — the praesidium behind this podcast. He is not a priest, not a religious, and not a lifelong stalwart. He is the man in the pew: someone who came once, stayed away, and came back. He speaks warmly of what Frank Duff draws from St Louis de Montfort’s True Devotion in the Handbook — “very theologically insightful and enriching” — and of what the room itself gave him: “a chance to connect and listen to other like minded Catholics who are passionate and fervent about their faith.”

On the host

For the first time, the chair changes hands. Richard Harrington — the legionary whose own story filled Episode 02 — takes the host’s seat. The man who answered the questions is now the one asking them, and he asks them as someone who walked into the Legion at almost the same moment his guest did.

Why these seven months

Every praesidium prays, week after week, for people who have drifted from the practice of their faith or are going through a hard time. For seven months Ciaran was one of the people being prayed for, and he did not know it. This is what that looks like from the inside — told by a man who now sits on the other side of the room, praying for the next one.

“You don’t have to join the Legion to get to heaven, but it sure does help.”

Ciaran Wright

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Episode 03 — Out Now, with Felipe Cunha

Felipe Cunha, AMDG Core co-founder and guest of Episode 03
Felipe Cunha AMDG Core co-founder · a Brazilian in Belfast
Episode 03 · Out Now

For the Greater Glory of God

A Brazilian layman who crossed an ocean and made Belfast his home opens the third conversation — a testimony of faith, work, and the daily resolve to give everything back for the greater glory of God.

On the chosen date

The 31st of July is the feast of St Ignatius of Loyola — a soldier laid low by a cannonball who rose a saint, founder of the Society of Jesus. To him the Church owes the motto Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam: “for the greater glory of God.” We could think of no truer day for this conversation.

On the guest

Felipe Cunha is a Brazilian Catholic and co-founder of AMDG Core, who left Brazil to make his home in Belfast. In the third conversation he shares the story of his own faith: the road that carried him across an ocean, how he came to be devoted to the saint who made that motto his way of life, and the conviction that a life, a craft, and a day’s work are all meant to be offered back to God.

“Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam.”

The motto of St Ignatius of Loyola

Episode 02 — Out Now, with Richard Harrington

Richard Harrington, legionary of the Our Lady Queen of Apostles Praesidium
Richard Harrington Catholic publisher, writer & legionary
Episode 02 · Out Now

His Life, in His Own Words

A fellow legionary tells his story — his life and history, his testimony of faith, and what a dedicated Catholic life looks like in the world today.

On the next guest

Richard Harrington is a Catholic publisher, writer, educator and legionary — a transplant from County Meath who has made his home in Belfast these past three years, a city he has grown to love more than home itself. A member of the Our Lady Queen of Apostles Praesidium, in the second conversation he shares the journey of his faith — the people, the providence, and the quiet daily fidelity that have shaped a life given to Christ through Mary.

Episode 01 — Out Now, on the Feast of the Visitation

20 Years as Spiritual Director
Fr Martin Graham, Diocesan Spiritual Director of the Legion of Mary in Down and Connor
Fr Martin Graham Administrator · St Peter’s Cathedral, Belfast
Episode 01 · Out Now

A First Visit — Twenty Years in the Making

Fr Martin Graham, Spiritual Director of the Legion in the Diocese of Down and Connor, opens the very first conversation — on the day the Church remembers Our Lady’s own first visit.

On the chosen date

The 31st of May is the feast the Church gives to the Visitation: Our Lady setting out in haste across the hill country to her cousin Elizabeth, carrying within her the unseen Christ. It is the first apostolic act of the Christian age — and the very pattern of the Legion. We could think of no truer day to begin.

On the first guest

For twenty years Fr Martin Graham has served as Spiritual Director of the Legion of Mary in Down and Connor, alongside his ministry as Administrator of St Peter’s Cathedral, Belfast. This summer he will be transferred to a new pastoral charge and the office will pass to a successor. Episode 01 is both an opening and a farewell — a record of two decades of formation, in his own voice, before the season ends.

“Exsurgens autem Maria… abiit in montana cum festinatione.”

Luke 1:39 — antiphon of the Visitation
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