Universalis: Mass & Liturgy of the Hours

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.