Be Brave, Be Prayerful, take risk, fly higher and higher
The experience
in Relevant Radio
Relevant Radio is a Catholic radio in the United States. It broadcasts and promotes religious programs based on gospel and Catholic teaching. Relevant radio assists the Catholic Church in the New Evangelization by bridging the gap between faith and everyday life. It believes that media has the power to deliver this message of hope to the world.
As an intern, I worked in Relevant Radio for four weeks in September 2017. After merging with Immaculate Heart Radio, Relevant Radio has around 62 owned radio stations and 62 affiliate radio stations. In Green Bay, it has two major studies and a few editing studios. It also has studios in other cities.
The Relevant Radio not only talks its principles on air, but also it teaches its principles to follow by its staffs. The staffs are trained with catholic teaching and they are practicing Catholics. It has its own guiding principles to bridge the gap between the faith and everyday life. Some of the guiding principles that help to bridge the gap between the faith and everyday life are: to be faithful to the Magisterium and Catechism of the Catholic Church and to be united with the teachings of Bishops and the Pope. The management and its staffs have great devotion to Blessed Virgin Mary and they keep their evangelization work under the protective intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The live programs like ‘The Drew Mariani Show’, ‘Father Simon Says’, ‘The Inner life’, ‘Go ask your Father’ and other programs help the people to relate the faith with the everyday life. A few times, I was with the team of ‘The Drew Mariani Show’. The host and producers try their best to put catholic faith into everyday life. For this, every day, they try to find topics which are relevant to this particular situation and the problems which affect everyday life.
The prayer lines of Relevant Radio help the listeners to request to their prayer needs. Staffs, who attend the phone calls, relate with the callers, give moral support in their sufferings through their consoling words and prayers. Later, the intentions of the callers are prayed at the chapel of the Nativity and Carmelite Monastery. Some of the important intentions are taken at 3 p.m. at the chaplet of Divine Mercy on week days.
Facebook live program is one of the important social media program. It helps to broadcast the Holy Mass lively. It helps thousands of views to see Holy Mass lively every day and thousands of others see it as recorded mass. During the Holy Mass live, hundreds of prayer requests are raised by the viewers to pray for different needs.
Relevant
web-site helps thousands of internet views to listen to programs all over the
world. It has live Radio, recorded programs and many other religious articles
and prayers.
Mobile App is a new innovation in the social media world and it attracts many youth to practice the Catholic faith. This mobile App helps the readers and listeners to read and to listen to everyday prayers and most of the important Catholic prayers. One can also listen to the Relevant Radio lively and one can search and find previously recorded programs.
Fr Rochy, the Executive Director, Relevant Radio Senior Management, Board of Directors and Episcopal Advisory Council work hand in hand in this new Evangelizative progress. Throughout these years, their hard work is seen by increasing number of stations, increasing numbers of live programs and merging Relevant Radio with Immaculate Heart Radio, while Relevant Radio continued as the one-air branding.
Hands up to Fr Rochy and
its members.
