Destination Newry …….the Morning Programme….Rowan Hand, your host for the three hours 0730 – 1030 BST….. Dr Paisley commemorated at the Ulster Hall Service in Belfast….at the week end… “cast an influential shadow over three generations” said Rev David McIlveen…..Indeed he did….But the dark cast of shadows fails to bring forth growth…Perhaps Rev McIlveen missed the real point…Dr Pailsey took his people from darkness into light…no matter what went before…. that’s what he did in the end…….. Caritas et Amor….Charity and Love…the story of the Society of African Missions ...150 years in the making….men of France and then Ireland…education…health…primary evangelization…..bringing a different of God…. A new prosperity…that’s the Society of African Missions….and their sister organisation the order of Our Lady of the Apostles….in Africa today and across the world…..gentle men and women with the hearts of lions…my documentary at 0900 this morning….. Oktober Fest in Newry….it’s the time of year again…Graeme Finnegan in Studio 1 at 0945 hrs…. The travel writer and broadcaster Paul Clements…an old colleague and friend from my BBC days…..his book on Richard Heyward….one of Ireland’s best-loved cultural figures of the mid-twentieth century…. After ten this morning… How slowly Catholicism makes progress…or is movement on Gay marriage and the like really progress? At the start of the Rome Synod…a new language of welcome for the Gay people…..then it failed to achieve sufficient support… a threat to traditional marriage and family…….the Bishops will return to it in twelve months time…. And the Irish Cardinal….Eamon Martin…..praying at the weekend …..speaking about it at Armagh Masses… that our conferencing politicians will make progress…flags, the past, parades and such like…..they are meeting again this week…. “Sliding Spring”….a comet from the beginning of time….hurtling past Mars at less than half the distance between earth and moon…..from the Oort Cloud on the very edge of the solar system…. “Curiosity” and “Opportunity” our earth-made Martian rovers are taking the pictures as it happens…. “Sliding Spring”….a mountain size ball…. Ice….rock…. dirt….hurtling on its way… The News Hub…of course….the music of Joni Mitchell….Phil Coulter….Mary Black…..Lorenna McKennitt….Eliza Gilkyson… That’s the morning programme…”Good Morning Newry and Mourne & the World” on Destination Newry…weekdays at 0730 hrs.
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