Universalis

Afleveringen

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  The week ahead – from 16 to 22 August 14.08.2026 22min

  The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 1. Pride. Episode notes.
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  The week ahead – from 9 to 15 August 07.08.2026 24min

  The Assumption. The Divine Comedy: a prologue to a series on the Seven Deadly Sins. Episode notes.
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  The week ahead – from 2 to 8 August 31.07.2026 21min

  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.
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  The week ahead – from 26 July to 1 August 25.07.2026 25min

  Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus. The active and contemplative lives. Episode notes.
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  The week ahead – from 19 to 25 July 17.07.2026 21min

  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.
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  The week ahead – from 12 to 18 July 10.07.2026 25min

  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.
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  The week ahead – from 5 to 11 July 03.07.2026 27min

  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.
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  The week ahead – from 28 June to 4 July 26.06.2026 25min

  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.
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  The week ahead – from 21 to 27 June 19.06.2026 23min

  Saint John the Baptist. Martyrdom: a duty? Saint Thomas More. Episode notes.
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  The week ahead – from 14 to 20 June 12.06.2026 27min

  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.
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  The week ahead – from 7 to 13 June 04.06.2026 22min

  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.
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  The week ahead – from 31 May to 6 June 29.05.2026 18min

  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.
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  The week ahead – from 24 to 30 May 22.05.2026 24min

  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.
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  The week ahead – from 17 to 23 May 15.05.2026 19min

  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.
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  The week ahead – from 10 to 16 May 08.05.2026 18min

  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.
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  The week ahead – from 3 to 9 May 01.05.2026 22min

  Fish shops and the Letter to Diognetus. The origins of the Liturgy of the Hours. A detailed walk through Lauds (Morning Prayer). Episode notes.
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  The week ahead – from 26 April to 2 May 24.04.2026 27min

  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.
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  The week ahead – from 19 to 25 April 17.04.2026 24min

  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.
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  The week ahead – from 12 to 18 April 10.04.2026 22min

  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.
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  The week ahead – from 5 to 11 April 04.04.2026 19min

  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.