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Archive for April, 2025

Duccio’s Maestà

Posted by universalis on 26 April 2025

The National Gallery has an exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300 ‒1350, which runs until 22 June. Following established practice, the exhibition website is likely to be destroyed at that time so that nobody can read anything about it. The exhibition catalogue will survive: it is edited by Joanna Cannon and its ISBN is 978-1857097160.

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Easter 2025 newsletter

Posted by universalis on 21 April 2025

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Pope Francis, R.I.P

There is surely no better time to die than at the very beginning of the Easter season. Just when one has prepared oneself to celebrate the joy of the Resurrection, one is called home by God, to begin the journey which will end in living that same joy.

Praying for the recently dead at this time has a special resonance for us as Christians, because the person and the season coincide so well. For those of you who want to read the Office of the Dead, here are the instructions for doing so in the Universalis apps and programs.

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Mid-Lent 2025 newsletter

Posted by universalis on 2 April 2025

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We are half way through Lent, and Laetare Sunday on 30 March marks the occasion by having rose-coloured vestments: half way between Lent’s purple and the white of Easter and the Resurrection.

The Gospel for Laetare Sunday this year is the parable of the Prodigal Son. It comes at this time in Lent because it forms a perfect framework for how we deal with sin: repentance, confession, forgiveness, celebration.

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Lenten Mass readings: weeks 3, 4 and 5

Posted by universalis on 1 April 2025

In years B and C of the three-year cycle, the characteristic Gospels of the 3rd, 4th and 5th Sundays of Lent are not read: the Samaritan Woman, the Man Born Blind, and Lazarus.

These Gospels are important, and can and should be read on some other day of those weeks.

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