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The week ahead – from 29 September to 5 October 202427 Sep 202400:16:09
Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, the Holy Guardian Angels. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 22 to 28 September 202420 Sep 202400:16:39
Saint Vincent de Paul; the prophet Ezekiel.
The week ahead – from 15 to 21 September 202413 Sep 202400:20:41
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.
The week ahead – from 8 to 14 September 202406 Sep 202400:16:06
St Peter Claver. The Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 13 to 19 October 202411 Oct 202400:15:17
Saint Teresa of Ávila. Saint Callistus.
The week ahead – from 6 to 12 October 202404 Oct 202400:15:51
Saint John Henry Newman; the Feast of the Holy Rosary. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 20 to 26 October 202419 Oct 202400:15:37
Pope Saint John Paul II. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 1 to 7 December 202429 Nov 202400:15:31
Advent and the new liturgical year. Cribs. Isaiah, rich food and wine. St Francis Xavier. The English Standard Version (ESV). New e-books. Some exercises for Advent. Saint Nicholas. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 24 to 30 November 202422 Nov 202400:14:14
The end of Ordinary Time; the end of the world; how to read the Apocalypse. Christ the King; ourselves as kings. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 17 to 23 November 202415 Nov 202400:14:45
The feasts of the four Roman basilicas; our reasons for fearing the gift of death. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 10 to 16 November 202408 Nov 202400:14:25
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.
The week ahead – from 3 to 9 November 202401 Nov 202400:18:26
Saint Nuno Álvares Pereira. Saint Charles Borromeo. The gift of death. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 27 October to 2 November 202426 Oct 202400:16:41
All Saints, All Souls; Heaven, Purgatory, Hell and judgement. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 8 to 14 December 202406 Dec 202400:15:07
Echoes between the First Readings and the Gospel. The Immaculate Conception. Our Lady of Guadalupe. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 1 to 7 September 202430 Aug 202400:15:57
The two-year cycle of readings. St Gregory the Great. Mother Teresa. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 25 to 31 August 202423 Aug 202400:15:46
St Augustine and St Monica. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 18 to 24 August 202416 Aug 202400:15:33
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 week ahead – from 11 to 17 August 202409 Aug 202400:15:18
The Assumption: the birth of a doctrine and its development. The Old Testament roots of Marian belief. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 4 to 10 August 202402 Aug 202400:15:38
The Transfiguration. Ways of reading the Gospel. Echoes across salvation history. Lectio Divina. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 22 to 28 December 202420 Dec 202400:13:47
The O Antiphons concluded. Christmas starts the night before. Which is more important, Christmas or Easter? Incarnation, rescue and love. Stephen (and Paul), John and the Holy Innocents. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 15 to 21 December 202413 Dec 202400:13:32
Gaudete Sunday. The countdown to Christmas with the O Antiphons. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 5 to 11 January 202503 Jan 202500:16:06
The Epiphany. Melchizedek and the Magi. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 29 December 2024 to 4 January 202527 Dec 202400:14:32
The Christmas feasts. The Holy Family. The Finding in the Temple. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 19 to 25 January 202518 Jan 202500:17:09
The wedding-feast at Cana. Joy, pleasure and delight. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 12 to 18 January 202510 Jan 202500:17:19
The Baptism of the Lord. Baptism. The uncanonised Henry Edward Manning. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 2 to 8 February 202501 Feb 202500:16:38
Candlemas, the feast of the Purification of Mary and the Presentation of the Lord. Purification. The celebration and sanctification of transitions. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 26 January to 1 February 202525 Jan 202500:16:58
Sunday of the Word of God. Reading; listening; commentaries. Lectio Divina. Saint Thomas Aquinas. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 16 to 22 February 202515 Feb 202500:16:34
The Book of Proverbs. Wisdom literature in general. "The Creed in Slow Motion" and next weekend's Word on Fire conference. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 9 to 15 February 202508 Feb 202500:19:05
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 9 to 15 March 202507 Mar 202500:17:00
Giving up things for Lent. Social media, and the still centre invaded by noise. Reconquering the still centre and inviting God in. The Scriptures as paint applied year by year. Paying other people to do our charity. Jonah and comedy. Ezekiel and hereditary guilt. The anniversary of this podcast. How to donate: universalis.com/donate Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 2 to 8 March 202501 Mar 202500:17:35
The Book of Job. Some Lenten exercises. Almsgiving: secret or public? How the Word on Fire conference went. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 23 February to 1 March 202521 Feb 202500:18:27
The Book of Ecclesiastes. Greek philosophy and Jewish wisdom. Where true value comes from. The goodness of work. How Universalis started. Get up and do something! Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 30 March to 5 April 202528 Mar 202500:19:08
Laetare Sunday, purple and white mixed. The Prodigal Son as a model for Confession. Why sin makes sense. Some questions and answers about Confession. A pure heart. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 23 to 29 March 202521 Mar 202500:17:04
The Liturgy of the Hours: how to do psalms, and the origin of the psalm-prayers. How to get the psalm-prayers in Universalis. The Annunciation; the namelessness of God; St Etheldreda’s and the tax-collectors. An example of justice. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 16 to 22 March 202515 Mar 202500:18:12
The Transfiguration in Lent and out of it: two views of the same landscape. "Do not judge", and when and how we have to judge. Judgement as love and justice as virtue. How to donate: universalis.com/donate Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 13 to 19 April 202511 Apr 202500:17:45
How the whole creation praises God, and how we praise him through it, liturgically, with sun, moon, leaves, ash, oil, bread, wine, wood, fire, light, wax, smoke, and water.
The week ahead – from 6 to 12 April 202505 Apr 202500:20:35
The inevitable tragedy: tragedy, not melodrama. Caiaphas the prophet; Caiaphas in the confessional. More about Confession. The Mission to the Rusty: a dream. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 4 to 10 May 202502 May 202500:14:35
The living bread. Transubstantiation misunderstood. The baby Church. The Pope's final lesson to us. Humility. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 27 April to 3 May 202525 Apr 202500:15:34
The glorious events of Easter week this year. Changing attitudes to the Papacy over the last 50 years. Our part in the election of the next Pope. A warning against politics, and three prayer intentions. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 20 to 26 April 202518 Apr 202500:16:30
Easter joy as an engine for the soul. The Resurrection as a step forward, not back. Our own healing and our own resurrection. The Easter Alleluias. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 18 to 24 May 202516 May 202500:20:45
Papal names; Leo I, Leo II, Leo III, Leo IV. Madagascar and its saints. Saint Rita of Cascia. The lost manuscript that was found at the fishmonger’s. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 11 to 17 May 202508 May 202500:23:58
Habemus Papam! A deep reflection on conclaves and on elections of all kinds. The power of the Holy Spirit as the Person who can unite the “I” of each one of us into a meaningful “We”. Our will as electors; our wishes as electors; and the difference between the two. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 25 to 31 May 202523 May 202500:18:21
Leo V, Leo VI, Leo VII, Leo VIII. Leo IX and Gregory VII and their reforms. Saint Philip Neri: his life and example. The kingdom of Heaven is like ginger beer. The fizz of the Catholic Reformation. And where are we? Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 1 to 7 June 202531 May 202500:21:03
Loss and greyness after the Ascension. What is the Spirit? The absence of the Spirit. Fear of the Spirit and of life. Pope Leo X. Hope is coming: Ezekiel and the valley of bones. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 8 to 14 June 202505 Jun 202500:19:14
Power cuts and electricity. Power restored with the coming of the Spirit. Life in power. Popes Leo XI and XII. Saint José de Anchieta and Saint Lidwina. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 22 to 28 June 202521 Jun 202500:18:54
Two more theological feasts: Corpus Christi and the Sacred Heart. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 15 to 21 June 202513 Jun 202500:25:22
The theological season of the year. The Most Holy Trinity - two pictures which may help. Dorothy L. Sayers and creation. Cardinal Manning, Pope Leo XIII and the social teaching of the Church. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 6 to 12 July 202503 Jul 202500:19:18
Saint Benedict and his rule; and how to live it when we are not monks. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 29 June to 5 July 202527 Jun 202500:19:11
Why choose St Peter? How to like St Paul? Abraham the negotiator. Episode notes.
The week ahead – from 20 to 26 July 202518 Jul 202500:23:21
Saints Anna and Joachim. Saint Mary Magdalen. Saint James. Saint Bridget of Sweden. Episode notes.
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