The week ahead – from 8 to 14 November
23 min
The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica. Saint Martin of Tours and Saint Leo the Great. More about Remembrance Cards. Dante again; the purification of sin; forgetting and remembrance. Episode notes.
About the show
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.
Newest episodes
The week ahead – from 1 to 7 November
28 min
All Souls’ Day and the month of November. “Resurrection Is Now”: an experience from Australia. Death as completion, and praying for the dead. Remembrance Cards in Universalis. Saint Nuno Álvares Pereira, warrior and Carmelite. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 25 to 31 October
21 min
This coming weekend: why celebrating All Saints’ Eve and All Saints is so important. Saint Me. Finding friends among the saints. Protecting children against fear. Episode notes.
Similar podcasts
All episodes
The week ahead – from 8 to 14 November
23 min
The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica. Saint Martin of Tours and Saint Leo the Great. More about Remembrance Cards. Dante again; the purification of sin; forgetting and remembrance. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 1 to 7 November
28 min
All Souls’ Day and the month of November. “Resurrection Is Now”: an experience from Australia. Death as completion, and praying for the dead. Remembrance Cards in Universalis. Saint Nuno Álvares Pereira, warrior and Carmelite. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 25 to 31 October
21 min
This coming weekend: why celebrating All Saints’ Eve and All Saints is so important. Saint Me. Finding friends among the saints. Protecting children against fear. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 18 to 24 October
23 min
Pope Saint John Paul II: ‘Do not be afraid’. Blessed Daudi Okelo and Jildo Irwa. Saint John of Capistrano and why we are not Muslims. Saint Antony Mary Claret: 15 assassination attempts and millions of books. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 11 to 17 October
23 min
Saint Callistus, and forgiveness. Saint Teresa of Ávila, and reform. Our Lady of Aparecida, and the poor and simple. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 4 to 10 October
22 min
St Francis of Assisi’s 800th anniversary, and some books about him. St Abraham the patriarch. St John Henry Newman. The feast of the Most Holy Rosary. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 27 September to 3 October
31 min
Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. The Guardian Angels. Martyrs from Japan and Brazil. Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and her Little Way. The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 7. Lust. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 20 to 26 September
25 min
Saint Matthew. The prophet Ezekiel. How Christianity is about being a better lover. Blessed Émilie Tavernier-Gamelin. The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 6. Gluttony. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 6 to 12 September
23 min
Saint Peter Claver. The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 4. Sloth. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 30 August to 5 September
24 min
Saint Gregory the Great. Mother Teresa. The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 3. Wrath. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 23 to 29 August
23 min
Saint Augustine and Saint Monica. Our Lady of Częstochowa. The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 2. Envy. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 16 to 22 August
22 min
The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 1. Pride. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 9 to 15 August
24 min
The Assumption. The Divine Comedy: a prologue to a series on the Seven Deadly Sins. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 2 to 8 August
21 min
The Transfiguration, and theo-drama. Hierarchies and status: there is a saint for everyone. Saint Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, the Curé of Ars. Confession and its power. “Resurrection Is Now” as a printed book. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 26 July to 1 August
25 min
Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus. The active and contemplative lives. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 19 to 25 July
21 min
Saint James and the pilgrim route to Compostela. Saint Mary Magdalene: Apostle to the Apostles, organiser of the caravan, and the woman freed from seven devils. About devils: yours and mine, and how to deal with them. Saint Bridget of Sweden, patron saint of Europe. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 12 to 18 July
25 min
Blessed Inácio de Azevedo and his companions: the veneration of places. Saint Thérèse of Saint Augustine and her Companions: the tyranny of liberty, and how to change the course of history. The Second Edition of the U.S. Divine Office. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 5 to 11 July
27 min
Saint Peter To Rot. ‘All human conflict is ultimately theological’. Saint Augustine Zhao Rang and his companions. On respecting the beliefs of others. Saint Maria Goretti. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 28 June to 4 July
25 min
Why choose Peter? The virtue of simplicity and the vice of prudence. The cemetery under the Vatican. How can we like Paul? What was it like to be him? Saint Thomas. Pier Giorgio Frassati, a saint for the first time. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 21 to 27 June
23 min
Saint John the Baptist. Martyrdom: a duty? Saint Thomas More. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 14 to 20 June
27 min
The Spiritual Reading page in Universalis. Saint Lidwina. Saint Elisha. Two anniversaries: G.K. Chesterton, and the birthday of Universalis. The story of the psalm-prayers in the Liturgy of the Hours. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 7 to 13 June
22 min
Corpus Christi: ‘Eat my flesh’ and the Last Supper. The work of the Holy Spirit and how the feast of Corpus Christi was born. St Thomas Aquinas and transubstantiation. The power of the Body of Christ. The Sacred Heart: the birth of the feast of love, and what it does for us. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 31 May to 6 June
18 min
The “theological season”. The Holy Trinity. Ourselves as trinitarian creators: Idea, Act, and Life. The Liturgy of the Hours continued: the Office of Readings. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 24 to 30 May
24 min
Pentecost and the Jewish Feast of Weeks. The Spirit bringing life to the Apostles and to us. “Go and teach all nations” and learning from them. Our hybrid Christian culture, both Jewish and Greek. Saint Philip Neri. The Holy Spirit and the Catholic Reformation. Compline, Psalm 90 and the wolves. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 17 to 23 May
19 min
The days after Ascension: a lost and gloomy time. The unknown Advocate. Life without life. Days without salt. Getting a handle on the Spirit. Giving life to a creation; images of fire and electricity. Salvation history as re-wiring. Arianism and Pope St John I. Blessed Raphael Louis Rafiringa and Madagascar. St Christopher Magallanes and the politeness of martyrs. Bernardino of Siena. The Liturgy of the Hours continued: Terce, Sext and None. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 10 to 16 May
18 min
The time after the Resurrection comes to the end: the Ascension approaches. Feet or sandals? Theo-drama, and the Ascension as drama. The Liturgy of the Hours continued: Vespers. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 3 to 9 May
22 min
Fish shops and the Letter to Diognetus. The origins of the Liturgy of the Hours. A detailed walk through Lauds (Morning Prayer). Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 26 April to 2 May
27 min
The first mention of Christians. The disciple Jesus loved and why his Gospel is different. How the Apocalypse nearly didn’t make it into the Bible, and why we should be glad it did. The importance of Saint Joseph the Worker. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 19 to 25 April
24 min
The saints are back again! Mark; Justin (165); Ephraem, Marcellinus, Vincent, Domninus (4th century); Erkenwald and Egbert (7th century); Adalbert (10th century); Anselm (11th century); then back to George. ANZAC day and the secrets of the warriors. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 12 to 18 April
22 min
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
19 min
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
23 min
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
24 min
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
26 min
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
20 min
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
18 min
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
24 min
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
23 min
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
21 min
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
20 min
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
22 min
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
20 min
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
23 min
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
21 min
The Epiphany. Melchizedek and the Magi. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 28 December 2025 to 3 January 2026
19 min
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
18 min
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
14 min
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
22 min
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
21 min
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
20 min
Preparation for Death (continued): Confession, The Sacrament of the Sick, Prayer. Conclusion. Episode notes.
–
0 ratings from members
5
4
3
2
1
Rate this podcast
Log in to rate and review the shows you listen to.
No reviews yet — be the first member to rate "Universalis".
This podcast, its content and its artwork are not owned by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Castquire.
Keep listening