Electric Prayer

A new podcast strand: the Seven Deadly Sins

Sin is failure to love, which means that a right contemplation of sin will teach us to love better. Dante Alighieri is one of the greatest poets in world literature and an expert in the theology of love, so in August a new strand started in the Universalis podcast: the Seven Deadly Sins, following the way Dante sees each of them in terms of love.

The weekly podcasts

The weekly Universalis podcast talks about themes from the saints and feasts of the week ahead. Each episode is about 20 minutes long.

An episode isn’t out of date once its week is over. Some people who discover the podcast have told us that they are going right back to the beginning, to listen to everything. So this page has all the past and current episodes.

Here are the episodes which have come out since the last newsletter. You can listen by clicking on the link. New podcast episodes come out on Friday or Saturday each week.

9 August 2026: The Assumption. The Divine Comedy: a prologue to a series on the Seven Deadly Sins.

16 August 2026: The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 1. Pride.

23 August 2026: Saint Augustine and Saint Monica. Our Lady of Częstochowa. The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 2. Envy.

30 August 2026: Saint Gregory the Great. Mother Teresa. The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 3. Wrath.

6 September 2026: Saint Peter Claver. The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 4. Sloth.

13 September 2026: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 5. Avarice.

20 September 2026: Saint Matthew. The prophet Ezekiel. How Christianity is about being a better lover. Blessed Émilie Tavernier-Gamelin. The Seven Deadly Sins in Dante: 6. Gluttony.

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