Universalis: Mass & Liturgy of the Hours
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The week ahead – from 18 to 24 October
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The week ahead – from 26 July to 1 August
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The week ahead – from 21 to 27 June
The week ahead – from 14 to 20 June
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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.
The week ahead – from 28 December 2025 to 3 January 2026
The Christmas feasts. The Holy Family. The Finding in the Temple. St Thomas Becket. The Mother of God. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 21 to 27 December 2025
The O Antiphons concluded. Ahaz: prayer vs. bothering God. Christmas starts the night before. Which is more important, Christmas or Easter? Incarnation, rescue and love. Stephen (and Paul). John. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 14 to 20 December 2025
The rose vestments on the 3rd Sunday of Advent. The beginning of the final countdown to Christmas. The ancient O Antiphons. The Latin hymns, and our project to record them. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 7 to 13 December 2025
More Isaiah. Rejoicing. Joy and pleasure and the true meaning of Christmas. Church liturgy and family liturgy. The story of the flaming Christmas pudding. How the Gospels this week explain Isaiah. The Immaculate Conception. Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 30 November to 6 December 2025
Looking forward to the unknown Chr–––––s which is coming, just as the Jews looked forward to the unsuspected glory of the Nativity. Isaiah teaches us by looking beyond the turbulent history of his time. His daily prophecies, day by day. Subscribing to Universalis and giving it as a gift. Saint Francis Xavier; Saint Nicholas. Episode notes.
Resurrection is Now: part 8 of 8
Preparation for Death (continued): Confession, The Sacrament of the Sick, Prayer.Conclusion. Episode notes.
Resurrection is Now: part 7 of 8
Preparation for Death: Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 23 to 29 November 2025
Christ the King and ourselves as kings. “A king, not a thing”. How to live our kingship and respect the kingship of others. The Vietnamese martyrs, St Niels Steensen, the Holy Crucifix at Goa. Episode notes.