The Universalis podcast

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The Universalis podcast comes out once a week. It covers the liturgical aspects of the week ahead, with reflections on the saints and on the coming week’s readings and psalms.

The week starts on Sunday. Each episode comes out two days in advance, first thing on Friday morning. The episodes are about 15 minutes long.

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Recent episodes

Friday 11 October 2024

The week ahead – from 13 to 19 October

Saint Teresa of Ávila. Saint Callistus. (16 minutes)

Friday 4 October 2024

The week ahead – from 6 to 12 October

Saint John Henry Newman; the Feast of the Holy Rosary. (16 minutes)
Episode notes.

Friday 27 September 2024

The week ahead – from 29 September to 5 October

Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, the Holy Guardian Angels. (17 minutes)
Episode notes.

Friday 20 September 2024

The week ahead – from 22 to 28 September

Saint Vincent de Paul; the prophet Ezekiel. (17 minutes)

Friday 13 September 2024

The week ahead – from 15 to 21 September

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. (21 minutes)
Episode notes.

Friday 6 September 2024

The week ahead – from 8 to 14 September

St Peter Claver. The Exaltation of the Holy Cross. (17 minutes)
Episode notes.

Friday 30 August 2024

The week ahead – from 1 to 7 September

The two-year cycle of readings. St Gregory the Great. Mother Teresa. (16 minutes)
Episode notes.

Friday 23 August 2024

The week ahead – from 25 to 31 August

St Augustine and St Monica. (16 minutes)
Episode notes.

Friday 16 August 2024

The week ahead – from 18 to 24 August

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. (16 minutes)
Episode notes.

Friday 9 August 2024

The week ahead – from 11 to 17 August

The Assumption: the birth of a doctrine and its development. The Old Testament roots of Marian belief. (16 minutes)
Episode notes.

Friday 2 August 2024

The week ahead – from 4 to 10 August

The Transfiguration. Ways of reading the Gospel. Echoes across salvation history. Lectio Divina. (16 minutes)
Episode notes.

Friday 26 July 2024

The week ahead – from 28 July to 3 August

Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus. The active life and the contemplative life. Darnel and the Last Judgement. God's mercy: a story. (17 minutes)
Episode notes.

Friday 19 July 2024

The week ahead – from 21 to 27 July

St Ignatius of Antioch again. Saint Mary Magdalene. Devils and temptation. Saint James and Compostela. (17 minutes)
Episode notes.

Friday 12 July 2024

The week ahead – from 14 to 20 July

Saint Ambrose on the Mysteries. Mount Carmel and the Carmelites. Mass tourism. (17 minutes)
Episode notes.

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Other apps

Whatever podcast app you have, it has a feature which allows you to add a podcast by entering the address (URL) of the podcast’s RSS feed.

Here is the URL for the Universalis podcast feed:

https://universalis.com/static/podcast-feed.xml

The simplest way to subscribe is to copy this URL and then paste it into the appropriate place in your podcast app.

To copy the URL

On a computer, right-click on the URL and select “Copy” from the menu.
On a mobile device, hold down your finger on the URL and select “Copy” when the menu appears.

To paste the URL

Here are some useful instructions from iMore.

Transcripts

We don’t provide transcripts ourselves because a podcast ought to be an aural experience. But for anyone who wants one, both Apple Podcasts and Spotify provide them. Here are the instructions.

The Universalis apps

All the Universalis apps and programs will show you each podcast as soon as it appears. The alert comes near the top of the About Today page and near the bottom of the Readings at Mass and Lauds (Morning Prayer) pages. To listen to an episode, just tap the alert.