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The Liturgy of the Hours, the Mass, and other things.

How to send a Contact Us message

Posted by universalis on 16 October 2019

All the Universalis apps and programs now have a command called “Contact Us”. This is a good way of getting in touch with us, because it creates an email which automatically contains a lot of useful information – such as which version you are using, what calendar and language settings you have, and what page you are looking at.

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Updating apps and programs

Posted by universalis on 21 February 2018

Depending what Universalis app or program you are using, it may update itself automatically when a new version comes out. Here are all the details, with instructions for manual updating.

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The Epiphany this year

Posted by universalis on 1 January 2026

Some parts of the world celebrate the Epiphany on 6 January. Others celebrate it on a Sunday. This causes a lot of confusion where the readings after the Epiphany are concerned, because which reading you get depends on where you are.

This Universalis page gives a table of the readings for each day in this season, according to both the “6 January” and the “Sunday” calendar. This should help you to un-confuse yourself.

The Universalis apps and programs can all be set to your local calendar, so that you can choose which of the two patterns of readings you want to see.

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BT Internet and daily emails

Posted by universalis on 8 December 2025

Some of you who use BT Internet as their email service provider and use our service to send you daily emails have started to report a problem. You receive a message from us saying that you replied to one of those daily emails and that the service has therefore been stopped. You are puzzled because you did not, sitting in front of your screen, send such a message.

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December 2025 newsletter

Posted by universalis on 6 December 2025

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Welcome back to Advent! Glory is on the way. The liturgy is full of the prophecies of Isaiah, which were first given for consolation to the Jews 2,700 years ago (the same sort of time as the legendary foundation of the city of Rome). They were fulfilled once over in the first century BC when the Son of God became man as the baby Jesus – and still those prophecies speak to us of the Second Coming of Christ.

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Giving Universalis for Christmas

Posted by universalis on 5 December 2025

At this time of year, we are all thinking of presents we can give, sometimes to people who are far away.

Why not give Universalis?

For older people who perhaps can’t get out much, Universalis can help maintain contact with the prayer life of the universal Church. Or if you have a younger friend, with all the distractions of life around and ahead, Universalis is a solid preparation and continuing foundation for an ‘Apostle for life’. Even for people who never take their noses out of the shiny black rectangles in front of them, they will see through the device for once, into a wider world – indeed, an infinite one.

Universalis lasts for ever and never runs out, so it really is a gift for life.

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November 2025 newsletter

Posted by universalis on 11 November 2025

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November is the month of the dead: a month of celebration rather than mourning. Unreliable statistics suggest that out of all the Christians there have ever been, 1 in 3 are living now. This means that for every one of us on Earth, there are two team members who have passed through death; and we are united into one single community by prayer.

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October 2025 newsletter

Posted by universalis on 14 October 2025

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After Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati and Blessed Carlo Acutis, Pope Leo is canonising Blessed Peter To Rot this coming Sunday, the 19th. You can read about him in the Universalis pages for his feast day, 7 July. Here is a link to the About Today page for that day.

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How to rate and review

Posted by universalis on 13 October 2025

Many people start using Universalis because their friends tell them about it. But the app stores themselves are another way to help people find it.

The Universalis app is programmed to ask, occasionally, if you want to give it a rating: in Google Play for Android, or in the App Store for Apple. “Occasionally” should mean “not more than three times a year”

But if you’d like to help us – and anyone who doesn’t know about Universalis yet – you can leave a star rating or a review at any time.

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September 2025 newsletter

Posted by universalis on 12 September 2025

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Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati and Blessed Carlo Acutis were canonised by Pope Leo on 7 September, and the podcast of that date tells you more about these new saints (you can find a link to it below). They will be a ‘saint for me’ for some people who, looking at the calendar of saints, can’t see anyone who could be their ‘friend in heaven’. But even for the rest of us, their lives have a lot in them to teach us and inspire us. I wish I had been able to be like Frassati in my early twenties, but I didn’t even know it was possible. Is it too late now? No, with God nothing is too late.

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August 2025 newsletter

Posted by universalis on 26 August 2025

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August sounds as if it ought to be a quiet time, but it has had some glorious feasts in it. The greatest ones have been the Transfiguration of the Lord on the 6th and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the 15th: a much-needed midsummer public holiday in many countries.

September is going to bring its own treasures, including a long anticipated multiple canonisation on Sunday the 7th; and of course it ends with a bang with St Michael and the archangels.

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July 2025 newsletter

Posted by universalis on 14 July 2025

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Eastertide is over, and the high theological feasts are behind us as well. Ordinary Time stretches out before us, but it isn’t smooth and featureless. There are inspiring saints to be celebrated and the words of the liturgy are always fresh.

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