Universalis: Mass & Liturgy of the Hours
Universalis Publishing
Show overview
Universalis: Mass & Liturgy of the Hours has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 118 episodes. That works out to roughly 35 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run ten to twenty minutes — most land between 16 min and 22 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Religion & Spirituality show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 20 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 60 episodes published. Published by Universalis Publishing.
From the publisher
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.
Latest Episodes
View all 118 episodesThe week ahead – from 17 to 23 May
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The week ahead – from 3 to 9 May
The week ahead – from 26 April to 2 May
The week ahead – from 19 to 25 April
The week ahead – from 12 to 18 April
Back to normal, but keeping up the Easter joy. The hands and the side: nothing abolished but everything healed. The same thing in our own lives. Dante, Lethe and Eunoë. What Thomas needed to know. Faith and reason are not opposites: a mathematical example. The first steps of the baby Church. The Easter Alleluias in Universalis. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 5 to 11 April
Without hindsight, the desolation of the Apostles and how we share in it. The Easter Vigil and the ultimate surprise of the Resurrection. What Jesus’ resurrection can tell us about our own resurrected life. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 29 March to 4 April
Original sin: a chemical parable. The Atonement or At-one-ment: a tale from school. Love as a blank cheque: ‘Whatever happens – shall happen’. The days of Holy Week. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 22 to 28 March
The Sun and Moon as timekeepers; the rivers proclaiming our place in Lent. Science as a love letter from God. The final miracle: the raising of Lazarus. Being together in desolation. The strong women of salvation history.
The week ahead – from 15 to 21 March
St Patrick, patron saint of Ireland: his life and his breastplate. Sin: what makes a sin a sin? The Seven Deadly Sins and the Divine Comedy. The other story of the healing of a blind man. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 8 to 14 March
The Samaritan Woman at the well. Sin: responsibility and healing: ‘I did it’ and ‘I didn’t do it.’ The readings of the week. St Etheldreda’s and the tax-collectors. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 1 to 7 March
The Transfiguration and Duccio’s Maestà: a Lenten puzzle for art history and for theology. The command not to pass judgement, and the duty to judge. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 22 to 28 February
Lent: self-love and self-discipline. From passive to active. Learning to do. Julian of Norwich and ‘Revelations of Divine Love’. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 15 to 21 February
The liturgy of the Vietnamese New Year and its lessons for us all. Ash Wednesday. Prayer, almsgiving and fasting as forms of agency. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 8 to 14 February
Saint Scholastica; the Shipwreck of St Paul; Our Lady of Lourdes; Saints Cyril and Methodius, and the Basilica of San Clemente. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 1 to 7 February
Candlemas, the feast of the Purification of Mary and the Presentation of the Lord. Purification. The celebration and sanctification of transitions. The hundredth episode!! Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 25 to 31 January
Sunday of the Word of God. Reading; listening; commentaries. Lectio Divina. Saint Thomas Aquinas. Another Creed in Slow Motion interview. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 18 to 24 January
What! No wedding feasts?? Universalis to the rescue. Plus a constellation of saints across the centuries and across the world: Publius, Marianne, Wulfstan, Henry, Henry, Cyprian, (Agnes, Fabian, Sebastian), Francis, and the Holy Child. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 11 to 17 January
The Three Kings, the crib, and the reality of Christianity. The meaning of our past. Baptism of the Lord. Baptism. Commemorating our own baptism. The uncanonised Henry Edward Manning. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 4 to 10 January 2026
The Epiphany. Melchizedek and the Magi. Episode notes.