Episodes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.