{"podcast":{"title":"Divine Office - Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Catholic Church","slug":"divine-office-liturgy-of-the-hours-of-the-roman-catholic-church-1496812","podcast_index_feed_id":1496812,"rss_url":"https://divineoffice.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://divineoffice.org","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/3/a/1/d3a1a5d76053be45/divine_audio_logo_2014.png","author":"Divine Office","episode_count":4483,"summary":"Free audio daily readings of scripture and prayer with original music","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T10:17:58.249211+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divine-office-liturgy-of-the-hours-of-the-roman-catholic-church-1496812"},"episode":{"title":"Gathered Together From the Ends of the Earth","slug":"gathered-together-from-the-ends-of-the-earth","published_at":"2026-07-06T20:34:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divine-office-liturgy-of-the-hours-of-the-roman-catholic-church-1496812/gathered-together-from-the-ends-of-the-earth","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divine-office-liturgy-of-the-hours-of-the-roman-catholic-church-1496812","url":"https://divineoffice.org/gathered-together-from-the-ends-of-the-world/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/divineoffice/do_ai_tts_192207-merged-17833698383159.mp3?dest-id=180808","summary":"The Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time · Optional Memorials of St Maria Goretti and St Augustine Zhao Rong & Companions - The Memorial of Saint Benedict, Abbot · Liturgical Colours: White/Green/Red This week the Hours return constantly to a single image: the Church as one body, gathered from scattered pieces into a single loaf. Saint Clement opens and closes the week pleading against the schism dividing the Corinthians. The Didache prays it directly on Wednesday — bread scattered on the mountains, gathered and made one. Saint Paul's letter to the Ephesians, on Friday, names the barrier itself: \"the barrier of hostility that kept us apart.\" Saint Ambrose asks us to throw open the gate of the heart . And on Saturday, Saint Benedict's Rule gives the practical form this gathering takes: a community bound together by putting Christ before everything. The thread is unity — not the absence of difference, but the deliberate, costly work of staying gathered, staying open, staying one. Gathered Together Saint Clement of Rome, writing to a Corinthian church that had split into factions, opens the week's Office of Readings on Monday with the question underneath everything that follows: \"Why do we tear apart and divide the body of Christ? Why do we revolt against our own body?\" — Second Reading, Office of Readings, Monday This week the Church celebrates optionally, Saint Maria Goretti on Monday, and Saint Augustine Zhao Rong & Companions on Thursday. These saints share a foundational bond, a togetherness: they wore the crown of martyrdom, they chose death over renouncing their Christian faith and virtues. By Tuesday , this week's theme turns outward. Saint Augustine insists that even those separated from the Church remain brothers — \"whether they like it or not.\" And Tuesday's Mornin…","meta_description":"The Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time · Optional Memorials of St Maria Goretti and St Augustine Zhao Rong & Companions - The Memorial of Saint Benedict, Ab…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":376,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/divine-office-liturgy-of-the-hours-of-the-roman-catholic-church-1496812/episodes/gathered-together-from-the-ends-of-the-earth/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/divine-office-liturgy-of-the-hours-of-the-roman-catholic-church-1496812/gathered-together-from-the-ends-of-the-earth.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}