Here is how to find the Hours for the Dead and the Mass for the Dead in the Universalis apps and programs.
The Liturgy of the Dead
Posted by universalis on 8 September 2022
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How the spoken audio works
Posted by universalis on 31 August 2022
The spoken audio of the Readings at Mass and of the Liturgy of the Hours is available on subscription. It is very simple to use. If you haven’t tried it before, do! You can listen to a sample before you subscribe.
How it works is this: you press the Play button, and a real, recorded human voice will speak the whole of the page you are looking at: the readings at Mass or one of the Hours. A yellow highlight follows the spoken lines and sentences, so you always know where you are.
You can read more about it all here for Android and here for iPhone and iPad.
The purpose of this blog post is to go just a little below the surface so that you can understand how it all behaves.
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Catholic Calendar on very old iPads
Posted by universalis on 25 August 2022
If you are using Catholic Calendar on a very old iPad running iOS 9.3.5, you may have difficulty activating it with your registration code. An error message can appear saying “An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be established”.
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“The Creed in Slow Motion” interviews
Posted by universalis on 7 August 2022
Two interesting interviews have recently been published which will take you deeper into the thought behind the book. If you haven’t already got the book, here is how to get it!

Christian Bergmann of Melbourne Catholic (a publication of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne) interviewed Martin Kochanski about The Creed in Slow Motion.
Here is the published interview. This is an exceptionally revealing interview, based as it is on a thorough reading of the book, and it is well worth taking the time to read it.
The Irish Catholic interviewed Martin Kochanski, and you can read the author’s thoughts and ideas here.
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John the Baptist in Australasia
Posted by universalis on 17 June 2022
This year the Solemnity of John the Baptist cannot be celebrated on 24 June because the Sacred Heart is celebrated on that day.
Australia and New Zealand are celebrating John the Baptist on 25 June; the rest of the world, on 23 June. This blog post explains the reason for the difference and also what you can expect Universalis to show you next week.
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St George in England
Posted by universalis on 23 April 2022
Today is St George’s Day, and some people in England are wondering why it does not appear in Universalis today. The reason is that this year there is a collision with Easter Saturday.
The Church’s calendar has to deal with collisions. Suppose, for instance, that the Annunciation, on the 25th of March, falls on Good Friday (as it did in 2016). Should we omit Good Friday that year, or omit the Annunciation? Or try to celebrate both at once?
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