Live Mass at 11am this morning on RTÉ One & RTÉ Radio 1 Extra is celebrated in the RTÉ studios by Fr Alan Hilliard with a congregation and choir from St Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin. The musical director is Jean Monahan. All are welcome.

Now on RTÉ One a welcome repeat of The Last Nuns in Ireland in which Dearbhail McDonald examines how Ireland became an incubator of female religious life and what it may signify for Irish society if the current drought in vocations means there will soon be no more nuns.

At 6.30pm on @rteone #TheHillsAreAlive continues at Kylemore Abbey as the estate recovers from violent autumn storms. The community prepares spiritually & commercially for Christmas and elects a new Abbess, while the nuns welcome schoolchildren & former pupils to their new monastery.

This is horrifying.

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A fairy wind today near Ballon in Carlow, captured by Catherine Callaghan TD

The final episode of #TheHillsAreAlive (RTÉ One 6.30pm) charts the change of seasons from Christmas to Easter at @kylemore, where the sisters mourn the passing of their former Abbess while welcoming new life to the estate in springtime. Thanks to them for sharing their lives.

Tonight was a very cold and wet night. We had stocked up on our sleeping bags and tents in advance as we prepare for the colder months to come. In total we had 435 meals all of which were completely cleared out in just 1 hour and 45mins. That is not taking account all of the

.RTÉ One & RTÉ Radio 1 Extra will be broadcasting coverage of the canonisation of “the millennial saint” Blessed #CarloAcutis & #PierGiorgioFrassati by Pope Leo XIV tomorrow (7th September) from 10.15am with commentary by Wendy Grace.

What remarkable testimony by Diane Foley, walking her own Via Crucis & breathing new meaning into each station. How powerful (& sadly rare) too to hear a woman’s voice in St Peter’s, as a humble @pontifex listens to a homily he knows he couldn’t have written in a month of Sundays

As Ireland’s #Jewish community prepares for #YomKippur the #DayOfAtonement Rabbi Yoni Wieder, Yanky Fachler, Joyce Weinrib & Holocaust Survivor Tomi Reichenthal share reflections on what the festival means to them. RTÉ One 11.50am today.

Live Mass from the RTÉ studios at 11.00am today on RTÉ One & RTÉ Radio 1 Extra features Galway’s Ignite Gospel Choir. The musical director is Keara Sheeran, and the celebrant is   Fr Desmond Walsh. All are welcome. facebook.com/share/17N8X6Sc…

It’s World #Missions Sunday and at 11am on RTÉ One / RTÉ Radio 1 Extra / RTÉ Player Fr Michael Kelly, Director of missio Ireland, celebrates #Mass with members of Misean Cara, including a special message from a former missionary priest & bishop, Pope Leo XIV

So sad to hear about the passing this morning of Fr Dermod McCarthy, my predecessor as Head of Religious Programmes at RTÉ. A terrific filmmaker, he was part of the Radharc team & created Would You Believe, but he was also a great priest & pastor, who will be much missed. RIP.

1700 years ago the 1st Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine, demanded that the 300 year old Church codify its beliefs. On #DivineSparks at 10pm tonight on RTÉ Radio 1 Dearbhail McDonald examines the history & consequences. A great listen, as Pope Leo XIV prepares to visit #Nicea in Nov.

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“Christian is what we are, Aid is what we do.” On its 80th anniversary, the Service now on RTÉ One / RTÉ Radio 1 Extra RTÉ Player celebrates christianaid’s record of putting faith into action for the poor. share.google/images/Nml2XZ6…

Christmas came early this weekend, in more ways than one, when we had the privilege of recording #DaughtersOfJerusalem for the RTÉ One Christmas Show in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham before their sold out performance at Pavilion Theatre. Shukran.