Universalis: Mass & Liturgy of the Hours

Universalis Publishing

The Universalis apps and website give you the Mass readings and every Hour of the Liturgy of the Hours for every day of every year. This podcast continues the theme. It tells you how to use Universalis and regularly points you to the highlights of the liturgy of the coming days.

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Yesterday · 24 min
The week ahead – from 30 August to 5 September
Saint Gregory the Great. Mother Teresa. The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 3. Wrath. Episode notes.
August 21 · 23 min
The week ahead – from 23 to 29 August
Saint Augustine and Saint Monica. Our Lady of Częstochowa. The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 2. Envy. Episode notes.
August 14 · 22 min
The week ahead – from 16 to 22 August
The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 1. Pride. Episode notes.
August 7 · 24 min
The week ahead – from 9 to 15 August
The Assumption. The Divine Comedy: a prologue to a series on the Seven Deadly Sins. Episode notes.
July 31 · 21 min
The week ahead – from 2 to 8 August
The Transfiguration, and theo-drama. Hierarchies and status: there is a saint for everyone. Saint Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, the Curé of Ars. Confession and its power. “Resurrection Is Now” as a printed book. Episode notes.
July 25 · 25 min
The week ahead – from 26 July to 1 August
Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus. The active and contemplative lives. Episode notes.
July 17 · 21 min
The week ahead – from 19 to 25 July
Saint James and the pilgrim route to Compostela. Saint Mary Magdalene: Apostle to the Apostles, organiser of the caravan, and the woman freed from seven devils. About devils: yours and mine, and how to deal with them. Saint Bridget of Sweden, patron saint of Europe. Episode notes.
July 10 · 25 min
The week ahead – from 12 to 18 July
Blessed Inácio de Azevedo and his companions: the veneration of places. Saint Thérèse of Saint Augustine and her Companions: the tyranny of liberty, and how to change the course of history. The Second Edition of the U.S. Divine Office. Episode notes.
July 3 · 27 min
The week ahead – from 5 to 11 July
Saint Peter To Rot. ‘All human conflict is ultimately theological’. Saint Augustine Zhao Rang and his companions. On respecting the beliefs of others. Saint Maria Goretti. Episode notes.
June 26 · 25 min
The week ahead – from 28 June to 4 July
Why choose Peter? The virtue of simplicity and the vice of prudence. The cemetery under the Vatican. How can we like Paul? What was it like to be him? Saint Thomas. Pier Giorgio Frassati, a saint for the first time. Episode notes.
June 19 · 23 min
The week ahead – from 21 to 27 June
Saint John the Baptist. Martyrdom: a duty? Saint Thomas More. Episode notes.
June 12 · 27 min
The week ahead – from 14 to 20 June
The Spiritual Reading page in Universalis. Saint Lidwina. Saint Elisha. Two anniversaries: G.K. Chesterton, and the birthday of Universalis. The story of the psalm-prayers in the Liturgy of the Hours. Episode notes.
June 4 · 22 min
The week ahead – from 7 to 13 June
Corpus Christi: ‘Eat my flesh’ and the Last Supper. The work of the Holy Spirit and how the feast of Corpus Christi was born. St Thomas Aquinas and transubstantiation. The power of the Body of Christ. The Sacred Heart: the birth of the feast of love, and what it does for us. Episode notes.
May 29 · 18 min
The week ahead – from 31 May to 6 June
The “theological season”. The Holy Trinity. Ourselves as trinitarian creators: Idea, Act, and Life. The Liturgy of the Hours continued: the Office of Readings. Episode notes.
May 22 · 24 min
The week ahead – from 24 to 30 May
Pentecost and the Jewish Feast of Weeks. The Spirit bringing life to the Apostles and to us. “Go and teach all nations” and learning from them. Our hybrid Christian culture, both Jewish and Greek. Saint Philip Neri. The Holy Spirit and the Catholic Reformation. Compline, Psalm 90 and the wolves. Episode notes.
May 15 · 19 min
The week ahead – from 17 to 23 May
The days after Ascension: a lost and gloomy time. The unknown Advocate. Life without life. Days without salt. Getting a handle on the Spirit. Giving life to a creation; images of fire and electricity. Salvation history as re-wiring. Arianism and Pope St John I. Blessed Raphael Louis Rafiringa and Madagascar. St Christopher Magallanes and the politeness of martyrs. Bernardino of Siena. The Liturgy of the Hours continued: Terce, Sext and None. Episode notes.
May 8 · 18 min
The week ahead – from 10 to 16 May
The time after the Resurrection comes to the end: the Ascension approaches. Feet or sandals? Theo-drama, and the Ascension as drama. The Liturgy of the Hours continued: Vespers. Episode notes.
May 1 · 22 min
The week ahead – from 3 to 9 May
Fish shops and the Letter to Diognetus. The origins of the Liturgy of the Hours. A detailed walk through Lauds (Morning Prayer). Episode notes.
April 24 · 27 min
The week ahead – from 26 April to 2 May
The first mention of Christians. The disciple Jesus loved and why his Gospel is different. How the Apocalypse nearly didn’t make it into the Bible, and why we should be glad it did. The importance of Saint Joseph the Worker. Episode notes.
April 17 · 24 min
The week ahead – from 19 to 25 April
The saints are back again! Mark; Justin (165); Ephraem, Marcellinus, Vincent, Domninus (4th century); Erkenwald and Egbert (7th century); Adalbert (10th century); Anselm (11th century); then back to George. ANZAC day and the secrets of the warriors. Episode notes.

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