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Archive for April, 2024

High-contrast text in Android

Posted by universalis on 15 April 2024

If you find that the rubrics in a Universalis page, which are usually red, appear in either black or white with a fringe of the opposite colour round each letter, then this is because you have turned on the experimental “high contrast” mode in Android, which makes these changes to any text displayed by an app.

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April 2024 newsletter

Posted by universalis on 2 April 2024

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Happy Easter! He is truly risen, alleluia.

If you look at the Lauds and Vespers pages this week, you will find that the psalms are the same every day. That is not a bug. The Church is drunk on the Resurrection and can’t stop celebrating it. Let’s let ourselves go, after the self-control of Lent, and do the same!

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Reading and Reflection: New American Bible edition

Posted by universalis on 1 April 2024

We are pleased to announce the publication of the USA edition of “Reading and Reflection”, using readings from the New American Bible. (For the Jerusalem Bible edition for the rest of the world, see the announcement here.)

This book contains the readings at Mass according to the official lectionary of the Catholic Church, for every day of every year. Each and every reading is accompanied by an accessible and scholarly commentary by Dom Henry Wansbrough OSB.

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The Easter Alleluia

Posted by universalis on 1 April 2024

Throughout Eastertide the Universalis apps on iPhone/iPad and Android have an “Alleluia button” which, if you press it, says Alleluia to you three times. These Alleluias come from you, the users of Universalis around the world. There are about 200 people’s voices in there. Each time you press the button, you will get different voices.

The button looks like this:

(Do not press the picture shown above, it is only a picture)

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