Radio Maria Canada
45 episodes listed below
Daily saints, Scripture, and Catholic consolation.
Radio Maria Canada is a Catholic devotional feed built around saints, Scripture, suffering, mercy, and daily conversion. Its recent episodes move from Spanish saint-of-the-day biographies into longer reflections on living with Jesus, Mary, and ordinary life.
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Radio Maria Canada is a Catholic devotional show shaped by the rhythms of religious radio. It speaks slowly. Its recent episodes favor Spanish-language catechesis, saint biographies, Scripture readings, and repeated moral application over polished storytelling or debate. The strongest recurring strand is El Santo del Día, conducted by Julio Morales. Those segments take a feast day and patiently turn it into a lesson about conversion, courage, suffering, mission, or perseverance. San Expedito is presented through urgency. His refusal to delay Christianity becomes a direct warning against leaving the decisive work of faith for tomorrow. San Francisco Solano gives the show one of its missionary portraits, moving from Andalusia to South America, from illness and danger to preaching among peoples described as initially resistant and then receptive. The tone is devotional, not historical-critical. It uses biography to press toward conscience. Several episodes dwell on physical affliction with grave tenderness. Santa Bernarde de Soubirous is described through poverty, asthma, tuberculosis, and Lourdes. Santa Liduvina is remembered through chronic pain, a broken spine, fever, thirst, and the crucifix placed before her as a way to understand suffering. San Damián de Molokai brings abandonment and leprosy into the same spiritual frame. The show can be hard to hear because it does not soften martyrdom, disease, family cruelty, or religious sacrifice into gentle abstractions. It also keeps returning to consolation. Suffering is repeatedly connected to Christ, prayer, courage, and salvation. Another strand appears in Jesús en tu vida, conducted by Miguel Gutiérrez and Hortensia Rayo, where the wedding at Cana becomes a meditation on inviting Jesus and Mary into ordinary joys and troubles. The language is warm and emphatic. It repeats beloved phrases until they feel like prayer. Radio Maria Canada will appeal most to listeners who want Catholic teaching that is earnest, traditional, Spanish-language in texture, and close to devotional life.
Made for: For Catholic listeners who want devotional teaching, saint stories, Spanish-language reflection, and Scripture applied to ordinary decisions, suffering, family life, and prayer.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the old-style Catholic radio cadence: feast-day biography, pastoral repetition, Marian devotion, and moral application delivered with reverence rather than polish.
Radio Maria Canada (RMC) is a 24 hr Catholic Radio Station composed of both religious and lay people. RMC is a non-profit organization approved by the federal government and a registered charity.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Radio Maria Canada pairs Catholic teaching, prayer, and archival preaching with practical conversations about health and everyday responsibility.
Radio Maria Canada sounds less like one program than a dial moving among distinct hosted hours. Cathy Biasi conducts practical health interviews, Vonda Orsini leads an intergenerational conversation with spiritual reflection, Al Smith presents archival Fulton J.
Bishop Sheen on Good Friday, a doctor on blood pressure: your curiosity stretches beyond the pew.
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A warm Cana reflection on inviting Christ into celebration, difficulty, and daily life.
The episode treats the wedding at Cana as a devotional lesson in recognizing Jesus within ordinary life. A joyful celebration turns needy when the wine runs out, and Mary responds by bringing that need to Jesus and directing the servants to follow his word.
A gentle Easter reflection on mercy as a daily practice of forgiveness, patience, and prayer.
Divine Mercy Sunday gives Sacred Space a clear center: Easter joy becomes a daily habit of receiving forgiveness, extending patience, and loosening grudges that wear down peace. Beatrice Corbeau places the feast one week after Easter, connects it to St.
A reverent Easter sermon on resurrection as conversion, conscience, and hope.
Al Smith frames the hour as the end of Lent and a bridge to Easter, then gives Archbishop Sheen's Easter message room to settle into a meditation on resurrection.
A Good Friday sermon on the cross as the meeting point of suffering and redemption.
Bishop Sheen Presents opens with Fulton J. Sheen as a familiar radio and television voice and moves quickly into a 1978 Holy Week sermon built around the cross.
A steady health conversation that treats aging as something to shape, not just endure.
Dr. Juliana Lindsay makes a clear, physician-led case for treating aging as something people can influence rather than simply accept. Kathy Biasi keeps the focus on Radiant Longevity and on practical markers such as A1C, blood pressure, vitamin D, and the question of whether a…
A warm Catholic conversation that presents Carlo Acutis through devotion, simplicity, and shared reflection.
Radio Maria Canada’s At Nonna’s Table keeps a steady, gentle pace as it turns to Carlo Acutis and moves from feast-day chatter and Italian translation into a careful portrait of holiness.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
This episode discusses San Expedito, a Roman soldier martyred for converting to Christianity, whose story teaches the importance of not delaying important decisions.
This episode explores the life of San Francisco Solano, a 16th-century Spanish Franciscan missionary known for his miracles and impactful preaching in South America.
This episode commemorates the life of Blessed Mariana de Jesús, a mystical mercedarian from Madrid who faced family hostility and made a perpetual vow of virginity despite opposition.
This episode tells the story of Santa Bernarde de Soubirous, the seer of the Immaculate Conception in Lourdes, France, focusing on her life of poverty, health struggles, and religious significance.
This episode celebrates San Damián de Molokai, a saint who voluntarily contracted leprosy to care for abandoned leprosy patients on a distant island, highlighting his early life, faith, and mission.
Radio María Canadá's program 'Jesús en tu Vida,' hosted by Miguel Gutiérrez and Hortensia Rayo, presents a reflection on John 2:1-12, the Wedding at Cana, in Spanish.
Radio Maria Canada's 'Sacred Space,' hosted by Beatrice Corbeau, presents a reflection on Divine Mercy Sunday and the figure of Saint Faustina Kowalska, whose early 20th-century diary recorded Jesus's instruction that the Feast of Mercy be 'a refuge and shelter for all souls, especially poor sinners.' The episode covers the historical establishment of the feast by Pope John Paul II in 2000, the theological symbolism of the Divine Mercy image's two rays, and the three-part practice of receiving, offering, and embodying mercy.
Al Smith opens the hour with a Lenten welcome.
The program opens with a welcome to this week's Bishop Sheen Presents, set up as a chance to hear the wit and wisdom of the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J.
Kathy Biasi welcomes Dr.
This episode discusses the importance of living according to God's Word and having Jesus Christ in daily life, based on the Gospel of Mark.
This episode introduces a Lectio Divina reflection on the biblical command to love one another as Jesus loved, beginning with an opening prayer and setting a spiritual tone.
Vonda Orsini welcomes Nora McKernan and Giovanni to At Nonna's Table for a conversation about Carlo Acutis.