The two-year cycle is described in detail in §§147 to 152 of the General Instruction on the Liturgy of the Hours.
The Universalis website only has the one-year cycle.
The Universalis apps for iPhone/iPad and Android, and the Universalis programs for Mac and Windows, all give you a choice between the one-year cycle and the two-year cycle. They start with the one-year cycle because that is what people are familiar with from the books.
To change to the two-year cycle:
On big feasts which have their own readings, there is no difference between the one-year and two-year cycles, so you won’t see the menu button on those days.
A two-year cycle for the Second Readings was never promulgated. So Universalis gives you the one-year cycle of Second Readings, with optional adjustments. You can read more about this here.
My source for most of this story has been Rome in the Dark Ages, by Peter Llewellyn (Constable, 1993), ISBN 0094721505. It covers a period which has fallen entirely outside our collective historical memory; but which forms a foundation for the ages to come.
These pages have fewer features than the apps, and some pages (such as Spiritual Reading) are not available.
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