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.
Episodes
Mentioned books
May 24, 2024 • 17min
The week ahead – from 26 May to 1 June 2024
The Athanasian Creed; the doctrine of the Trinity; Trinitarian doctrine and human creation; the Visitation. (Corpus Christi will be in the next podcast.) Episode notes.
May 17, 2024 • 13min
The week ahead – from 19 to 25 May 2024
Pentecost; the works of the Holy Spirit; Hebrew and Greek culture; St Bede the Venerable. Episode notes.
May 9, 2024 • 16min
The week ahead – from the Ascension to 18 May 2024
The Ascension as art and as drama. The time of waiting. The structure of a single Hour. From the Fall to the coming of the Spirit. Episode notes.
May 3, 2024 • 15min
The week ahead – from 5 to 11 May 2024
The last few days before the Ascension; the disciples as school-leavers. The psalm with Leviathan; delight in creation. St Gorg Preca. The date of the Ascension. Episode notes.
Apr 26, 2024 • 15min
The week ahead – from 28 April to 4 May 2024
Saint Joseph the Worker. The mysterious 7th Hour in the Liturgy of the Hours. Episode notes.
Apr 19, 2024 • 14min
The week ahead – from 21 to 27 April 2024
Acts, St John and the Apocalypse. What is the Liturgy of the Hours? A week of missionaries. Episode notes.
Apr 12, 2024 • 12min
The week ahead – from 14 to 20 April 2024
What it means to be a saint; “Saint You”. Madagascar, Ireland, Africa, England. Justin Martyr and the beginnings of Christianity. The unnoticed saints. Episode notes.
Apr 5, 2024 • 14min
The week ahead – from 7 to 13 April 2024
Highlights of the coming week. The apprentice Apostles. What is the risen Jesus? Our bodies and ourselves. Thomas, faith and reason. Could Mary have said No? Theology as music. Episode notes.
Mar 29, 2024 • 15min
The week ahead – from 31 March to 6 April 2024
Highlights of Easter week. “Drunk on the Spirit”. Coming to terms with un-bereavement. Salvation history as drama. Reasons for avoiding the Liturgy. “At Easter there can be no fear”. The earliest Patristic passages. Alleluia!!! Episode notes.
Mar 22, 2024 • 14min
The week ahead – from 24 to 30 March 2024
Highlights of the coming week, Holy Week. Communication by means of silence. The Passion and how we encounter it. Julian of Norwich. The first and last Mass. The empty church and the end of everything. Episode notes.
