"Living the Mystery" - Mark Patrick Hederman in conversation with Marian Finucane - (Programme excerpt) 9th February 2020 (S10E12b)

SS102fm re-broadcasts an RTE interview by the late Marian Finucane with Mark Patrick Hederman OSB from Glenstal Abbey which was originally broadcast by RTE in June 2019. Marian interviews Dom Mark about his new book "Living the Mystery: What lies between Science and Religion" which is published by Columba Books.The Irish Catholic newspapers review of the book was published on 1 August 2019."Life is a mystery quite beyond the comprehension of our normal ways of understanding. Having lived as a Benedictine monk for over fifty years, Mark Patrick Hederman has learned how to engage with mystery and sets out to explain how to bring a new sense of the sacred into your life.Despite clamorous reports to the contrary, he argues that religion is alive and well in our world. In this fascinating book he contends that most of us are religious and can’t help being religious. Being human means being ‘religious’, otherwise we would die of despair. Along with his, he touches on the inaccurate idea that science and religion are opposing forces and focuses on the fact that the arts are the only way we can convey the sacred to today’s disbelieving world. Through this exploration, Hederman suggests that a mytho-poetic language could provide a ‘middle voice,’ a ‘third language’ that bridges that gap between science and religion in our society."Text us at +353 874668950 or email at [email protected]