Journey through Advent with Mater Dei Radio! Discover helpful resources for this holy season.
Hail Mary Media App
Download our free Hail Mary Media App to access our selection of Advent prayers, including the Saint Andrew’s Novena (begins November 30) and 2 novenas that begin on December 16. Just visit the “Pray” tab, where you can also sign up for daily reminders.
You’ll also find a collection of Advent-themed episodes, music, and interviews (found under the “More” tab). These episodes and interviews are also listed below!
Encountering Emmanuel
This Advent season, we are thrilled to once again be offering a video and audio series from Ave Maria Press on the Hail Mary Media app!
Join Heather Khym, cohost from the Abiding Together podcast, on a transformative multimedia Advent journey as she extends a heartfelt invitation to embrace stillness and silence amid life’s chaos, allowing God to dwell in the depths of your being. While the world moves at an ever-faster pace, Heather encourages you to pull back from the hustle and create space for our Savior to come into every area of your life—to transform and heal it through his love.
As a companion to the new Encountering Emmanuel journal, these video/audio episodes focus on a different weekly theme and will be available on the app each Sunday during Advent. You can even sign up for an alert! Both the series and the journal feature stunning illustrations from Portland-based Catholic artist Josiah Henley.
Special thanks to Ave Maria Press for making this available to our listeners!
Saint Andrew Novena
The short Saint Andrew Christmas novena prayer is said fifteen times each day from the feast of Saint Andrew (November 30) until Christmas Eve, and can be said for a specific intention. Use the Hail Mary Media App to find multiple recorded versions of this prayer or to sign up for a daily reminder. We also invite you pray this with us on the air!
Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in the piercing cold.
In that hour vouchsafe, I beseech Thee, O my God, to hear my prayer and grant my desires through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ, and of His blessed Mother. Amen.
Advent Episodes & Interviews
Advent with The Morning Blend:
Sacred Advent Music on The Glory of the Mass:
Additional music for this year will be added soon! In the meantime, enjoy sacred music from previous years.
Collection of our Advent-Themed Podcast Episodes:
Episodes from 2024 are coming soon!