I am a protestant. He is looking for a way to deepen my Prayer life. This app seems to be the one to do that. It is a nice app, and I appreciate the free trial. I also appreciate that it accessible to the blind. I know that after the free trial, I am probably going to have to delete the app. I simply cannot afford a subscription or one time purchase. i’m blind disabled, and I can’t afford that kind of money. I’m on a fixed income, and after rent and bills. There’s nothing left for subscriptions of this kind. Or, even one time purchases of apps. It would be nice if there was a free version of this app somehow. Would use it daily if there was. Keep up the good work, and God is proud of you.
In less than 10 days, the Church Calendar app has opened the doors for me to daily praying the DivineOffice/Liturgy of the Hours (DO/LH). Highlights for me (a non-techy) include: Seamless integration between Functions and Features Intuitive Use And best of all - the app has made praying the DO/LH a daily reality rather than a spiritual goal I aspire to. If you ever wanted to pray throughout the day with and as the Church prays, take the Church Calendar up on its 30 day free trial run (no gimmicks). Your personal prayer life will be rocked!
I originally bought the liturgy of the hours in book form and loved the little books !!! But my devotion waned as my life became complex, and when I tried to return to them, I couldn’t re-master the flipping back and forth and was never sure I was reading the right sections…. THIS! puts it all together, offers hymn and format choices, and helps me as I try to become more faithful in prayer. I love it !!!
THE app for bringing your prayer life to a deeper level!
I have used this app (full version) for years and just when they add features to make our prayer life more rich, they come up with something to enhance it even more! Thank you to the developers for giving the Body of Christ such a wonderful gift to allow us to “remain in Christ” through the liturgy and other rich avenues of prayer. Highly recommended.
This splendid app is being improved quite regularly. As a priest I celebrate the Divine Office daily and rely on Universalis when traveling or not in my chapel. I find the new addition of the spoken gospel to be good for preparing a sermon or meditating. The extended readings to give the daily gospel its context is another excellent addition. I do wish we had more hymn choice but I know this is difficult to procure between copyrights and fees.
This app I truly enjoy, this app is a helper to prepare a person to mass or to guide someone in the liturgy of the hours, not only that, the calendar is specific and shows you the importance of that day. It has the masses readings, order of mass, and mass today, which is an entire mass. This app has helped me a lot and I'm sure it can help you too.
I have been using this app for about a year. I keep finding more to love about it. For example, I didn’t bother looking at the Rosary for months. When I did finally look at it I found it was a scriptural rosary! I mostly use it for the liturgy is the hours and daily mass readings.
This app leads me into a wonderfully prayerful experience every day
Awesome functionality - clear instructions - deeply theological - more “full gospel” than anything else I have ever read (which is extensive) as a lifelong (and still) protestant - better lessons in church than I ever received anywhere, including SBTSeminary.
Every time I swipe up the loud BELL TOWER bells from liturgy of the hours DING as LOUD as my PHONE volume will go!!! Even if my volume and ringer, and notifications volume is on minimum/low!! It’s like a hostile take over over Church bells. What worse. If the liturgy of the hours was at Noon and I unlock my phone or swipe up at 12:30pm....GONG!!!! How do I suppress this? I like the liturgy of the hours notification, but it suddenly taking over the phones Notification volume and ringing MAXIMUM volume is horrible. Please fix in your next update. My kids are starting to say my phone is possessed. Thanks!
I liked this program very much , but there was a small bug after I subscribed and I had problems reaching the company. None the less, it is exceptional and advances daily in its readings and this script I preferred.
This app has accompanied me for more than seven years through the US and Canada. We begin and end the day together mindful of the many who are doing the same and different yet the ever same unmeasurable time throughout the world.
Nobody asked me but I prefer the previous way to copy and paste; before your last update. It was easier to copy certain sections. I can’t do that anymore. Thanks for listening.
I love this app! It is so well designed & easy to navigate! Every night I read the night prayer & sometimes I listen to the spoken version on the app. It has deepened my connection with Jesus. Highly recommend!
RC Calendar, AKA Catholic Calendar or Universalis, is the best ‘all in one’ app that I’ve found! It contains all of the daily prayers and readings for the Divine Office as well as Mass and also has reflections, Lectio Divina and rosary. I have multiple app’s for all of these but RC Calendar does them all in one place and is excellent!
This is a fulfillimg resource to be used with the LOH/DO/Breviary App. When used together, it makes the opportunity of LOH prayer far more focused and undistracted than the bound 1 or 4 volume readings... even though the prayers are the same.
This app is great for every day. Having the readings and hours close at hand makes it easier to escape from the troubles of the day and follow the Lord's good workings.
As a parish sacristan, this app is a must have for me, but the most recent update causes the app to crash upon launching. I have an iPhone XR running iOS 13.7. Please fix this soon!
So now your app will not add Holy days and holidays to my IOS calendar unless I grant you full access to my calendar? That is an invasion of my privacy. I used to love this app, now I’m going to delete it since it is of no use. Privacy is a very big deal breaker.
This used to be a nice free app. I would read about the Saint if the day and now— pay $1.00 a month. Much better free good Catholic apps out there. Will have to delete this app
First of all, the person who gave it one star below didn't check the settings-- you can easily change the mass readings in accordance to your local Catholic church liturgies (the default liturgy that this app is set to is not the United States one, so maybe that's why that person was caught off guard.) Anyways! This is truly a beautiful app-- the readings are so easily accessible and the Hours are just wonderful to have everywhere I go :) my daddy and all my friends who've downloaded it all love it too!!
I wish that you could do away with the archaic language especially in the hymns. The rest of the wording in the breviary is pretty good. I was using it every day for a few months but now I have gone back to the liturgy of the hours. I have version from Catholic book publishing company in New York and I like the wording in it better. But thank you for the wonderful service and I will continue to use it from time to time.
The RC Calendar may be OK for finding out what feast day is is but the synopsis I read today was the last straw. Poor or trite phrases for SAINTS abound; People who we are to look up to and I get and I quote, "After nine years in the convent she dies and that was that."! see Oct 1 feast of the Little Flower. In context I don't know if it was the Saint who died or the superior mentioned in the previous sentence! I happen to know from another source the Saint Therese' died after nine years in the Carmel not the superior. I am removing this from I phone and finding a better one with better writing about the Saints. I'm no Yeats or Shelley but I know poor and careless writing when I see it (and when I produce it) and this Stuff is TERRIBLE!
With its "About Today" feature on the lives of the saints, provides a practical tool for daily living in the communion of saints, but sometimes goes from informative to preachy with questionable guidance & practical applications of the saints lives that seem forced or beyond the reach of the straightforward biographical info. Even more useful is the app this is the "teaser" for--"Universalis" for praying the Liturgy of the Hours--for which the developer recently adjusted the price down so I bought it. Thanks!
The main offering is the About Today feature which includes nice write ups about saints (about two per week). It is interesting to use the Pick feature to see if there are any saints chronicaled on specific days. It's a little slow to start up (only about 3 seconds, but still slower than other apps), but loads and works fine. A worthwhile teaser for the larger Universalis App which includes readings, psalms and three daily prayers.
This free app is one of the best I have. Especially appreciate the Liturgy of the Hours on my phone. I don't think the Liturgy was included originally, unless I just missed it. I used to read about the saints and liked the app for that, but then I noticed the Hours button at the top of the screen. Available anytime, anywhere...awesome! Thank you so much, Universalis!
Being an individual born on the feast of Saint James Zechariah I pride myself on the day of my birth being that of a "Wednesday" yet your calendar app has recently broke and receded back three whole days which that of is incorrect to the calendar of any church hand out... Please fix this bug as also offsets the weeks set of the year. Thank you- Dean Domenick Zack Jr.
This is just the Apps for the person that attends daily mass. It's really good for all mass'. It has the Ordinary of The Mass plus all holy days the daily and evening prayers. This would also be great for students. It is the latest up to date Mass readings. It also has the priest and people's reply at the Mass. You have to check this out. Maybe I can convince our parish to get WiFi for our church. Then we can use our iPads during mass.!
Universalis is a breviary and a missal, and more besides. It gives you the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) and the Mass for every day; plus valuable additional material. The Catholic Calendar app lets you join in with the tens of thousands of people who use Universalis daily, through a free app plus a small monthly subscription of roughly $0.99 / £0.79 / €0.99 (the App Store will tell you the exact figure). If you prefer a single purchase instead of a monthly subscription, get the Universalis app instead of the Catholic Calendar app. WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE • A complete liturgical calendar listing every saint and feast for your region. • The “About Today” page tells you what saints are being celebrated today, not only in your region but worldwide. It includes reflections and biographies. • The Order of Mass with all the possible alternative texts. • The Rosary with a verse of Scripture for every Hail Mary of every Mystery. Spoken audio is included if you want to listen to it. • No Internet needed: everything you need is already built in. • No cleverness needed: each day, Catholic Calendar works out exactly what you need to see. • View any date: past, present and future. • Use your own local calendar: USA, Canada, Singapore, Ireland, and every diocese in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. • Easy to read and use: a choice of fonts; big or small type; dark or light theme; page-turning or scrolling. • Help and support: tips and instructions are included; or press “Contact Us” to send us a message, and we will reply. And more – Home Screen widgets; liturgical events for your iOS calendar; copy and paste into other apps; reminders and alarms. THE MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION ADDS: (You can use all this for free for a month before deciding whether you want to subscribe.) LITURGY OF THE HOURS: The complete official Liturgy of the Hours of the Catholic Church, as used worldwide. Morning (Lauds), daytime (Terce, Sext and None), evening (Vespers), night (Compline) and the deeply reflective Office of Readings. Do as many or as few of them as you like. • The psalms and canticles match the official English and American books. Scripture readings are from the Jerusalem Bible or the RSV. • Latin if you want it: by itself or alongside the English. MASS: The exact prayers and readings at Mass for each day. • United States: the official NAB version. Elsewhere: Jerusalem Bible readings and Grail psalms, as used at Mass in most of the English-speaking world. • Latin if you want it: alongside the English. AND ALSO… • Illustrations in the About Today page. • “Mass Today” gives you the Order of Mass and today’s readings and prayers, all in one page. Bishops have been known to use it to say Mass from their iPads! • “Spiritual Reading” gathers the patriotic and hagiographic readings for all the saints and feasts of the day. • Daily Books takes selected spiritual classics and presents them in daily instalments to focus and enrich your prayer life. • Commentaries on the day’s Mass readings from a leading biblical scholar. And more – daily email service; Mass readings on your Apple Watch. OPTIONAL ADD-ON AUDIO (in-app purchase required) Just press the button and listen! If you want to see what you are hearing, the text is highlighted to follow the sound. After an initial download, no Internet is required. Works with CarPlay too. • Spoken English Liturgy of the Hours: every Hour of every day of every year. Monthly or annual subscription. • Spoken English Mass Readings: First and Second Reading and the Gospel. Jerusalem Bible translation only. Monthly or annual subscription. (You can listen to a sample before subscribing. Following App Store rules, subscriptions renew automatically but you can cancel auto-renewal at any time.) • Sung Latin Compline (Night Prayer): by the boys of the Schola Cantorum of the London Oratory School. Single purchase. -- Privacy policy & terms of service: universalis.com/n-ios-privacy.htm.
