Electric Prayer

Corpus Christi is today (or on Sunday if your bishop has decided that’s better). It’s one of a cluster of theological feasts which began with Pentecost ten days ago and will end with the Immaculate Heart of Mary in just over a week’s time. You can think of this “mini theological season” as us having finished commemorating all the events of salvation history, and now sitting down and thinking through what it all means. Because it all means something.

Explaining the Liturgy of the Hours

The explanations of the Liturgy of the Hours in the podcast have continued. People have been asking for a better understanding of how the Hours work, and why, and in the podcast I’ve been talking about this, a little each week. I’ve are highlighted these descriptions in the list below.

The weekly podcasts

Here are the episodes which have come out since the last newsletter. You can listen by clicking on the link. Each episode is around 20 minutes long.

3 May 2026: … The origins of the Liturgy of the Hours. A detailed walk through Lauds (Morning Prayer).

10 May 2026: … The Liturgy of the Hours continued: Vespers. How to fit the Hours into your day.

17 May 2026: The days after Ascension: a lost and gloomy time. The unknown Advocate. Life without life. Days without salt. Getting a handle on the Spirit. Giving life to a creation; images of fire and electricity. Salvation history as re-wiring. Arianism and Pope St John I. Blessed Raphael Louis Rafiringa and Madagascar. St Christopher Magallanes and the politeness of martyrs. Bernardino of Siena. The Liturgy of the Hours continued: Terce, Sext and None.

24 May 2026: Pentecost and the Jewish Feast of Weeks. The Spirit bringing life to the Apostles and to us. “Go and teach all nations” and learning from them. Our hybrid Christian culture, both Jewish and Greek. Saint Philip Neri. The Holy Spirit and the Catholic Reformation. The Liturgy of the Hours continued: Compline (Night Prayer), Psalm 90 and the wolves.

31 May 2026: The “theological season”. The Holy Trinity. Ourselves as trinitarian creators: Idea, Act, and Life. The Liturgy of the Hours continued: the Office of Readings.

7 June 2026: Corpus Christi: ‘Eat my flesh’ and the Last Supper. The work of the Holy Spirit and how the feast of Corpus Christi was born. St Thomas Aquinas and transubstantiation. The power of the Body of Christ. The Sacred Heart: the birth of the feast of love, and what that feast does for us.

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