Universalis: Mass & Liturgy of the Hours

The end of Ordinary Time; the end of the world; how to read the Apocalypse. Christ the King; ourselves as kings. Episode notes.

The feasts of the four Roman basilicas; our reasons for fearing the gift of death. Episode notes.

Saints Martin of Tours, Margaret of Scotland, Elizabeth of Hungary and Albert the Great. Friar Julian, the lost Hungarians and the Mongols. More of the gift of death. Episode notes.

Saint Nuno Álvares Pereira. Saint Charles Borromeo. The gift of death. Episode notes.

All Saints, All Souls; Heaven, Purgatory, Hell and judgement. Episode notes.

Pope Saint John Paul II. Episode notes.

Saint Teresa of Ávila. Saint Callistus.

Saint John Henry Newman; the Feast of the Holy Rosary. Episode notes.

Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, the Holy Guardian Angels. Episode notes.

Saint Vincent de Paul; the prophet Ezekiel.

The martyrdom of Saint Cyprian; the stillness at the heart of the fight; the blessing of a martyr. The Korean Martyrs and the human race. Episode notes.

St Peter Claver. The Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Episode notes.

The two-year cycle of readings. St Gregory the Great. Mother Teresa. Episode notes.

St Augustine and St Monica. Episode notes.

Our Lady, Mother and Queen. Octaves and their history. The First Readings in the Office of Readings. The book of Ecclesiastes. The two-year cycle. Episode notes.

The Assumption: the birth of a doctrine and its development. The Old Testament roots of Marian belief. Episode notes.

The Transfiguration. Ways of reading the Gospel. Echoes across salvation history. Lectio Divina. Episode notes.

Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus. The active life and the contemplative life. Darnel and the Last Judgement. God's mercy: a story. Episode notes.

St Ignatius of Antioch again. Saint Mary Magdalene. Devils and temptation. Saint James and Compostela. Episode notes.

Saint Ambrose on the Mysteries. Mount Carmel and the Carmelites. Mass tourism. Episode notes.

Saint Benedict. Episode notes.

Saint Peter; Saint Paul; Saint Thomas. Episode notes.

Saint John the Baptist; the additional long passages in the Readings at Mass page; God made manifest in the Babylonian exile. Episode notes.

The Psalms and their position in the Liturgy of the Hours. Saint Thomas More. Episode notes.

Returning home to Ordinary Time. The Universalis anniversary. The tempest and the still small voice; the cliff and the beach. St Ignatius of Antioch. The Spiritual Reading page. Episode notes.

The Body and Blood in short words; the birth of the feast; Transubstantiation; Communion, Exposition and Benediction. The Sacred Heart of Jesus. Episode notes.

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.

Pentecost; the works of the Holy Spirit; Hebrew and Greek culture; St Bede the Venerable. Episode notes.

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.

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.

Saint Joseph the Worker. The mysterious 7th Hour in the Liturgy of the Hours. Episode notes.

Acts, St John and the Apocalypse. What is the Liturgy of the Hours? A week of missionaries. Episode notes.

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.