“The Divine Office is... the prayer not only of the clergy but of the whole People of God.”
All the Mass readings plus all the Liturgy of the Hours!
Universalis is a missal and a breviary, and more besides. It gives you the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) and the Mass for every day; plus valuable additional material.
Tens of thousands of people use Universalis daily. Come and join them!
• Single purchase: the app lasts for ever. It does not need a subscription to make it work.
• No Internet needed: everything you need is already built in.
• No cleverness needed: each day, Universalis 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.
• Optional add-on: spoken audio read by real human beings (this needs a subscription: see below).
• Latin if you want it: by itself or alongside the English.
• Help and support: tips and instructions are included; or press “Contact Us” to send us a message, and we will reply.
EXTRA MATERIAL
• The “About Today” page tells you what saints are being celebrated today, worldwide. It includes reflections, biographies and illustrations.
• “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 patristic and hagiographic readings for all the saints and feasts of the day.
• “The Rosary” has a verse of Scripture for every Hail Mary of every Mystery. Spoken audio is included.
• 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 – Home Screen widgets; liturgical events for your iOS calendar; daily email service; copy and paste into other apps; reminders and alarms; Mass readings on your Apple Watch.
LITURGY OF THE HOURS (Divine Office)
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 – United States: RSV. Elsewhere: Jerusalem Bible (with RSV as an optional add-on).
READINGS AT MASS
The exact prayers and readings at Mass for each day.
• England, Wales, Scotland: the official ESV version.
• United States: the official NAB version.
• Elsewhere: Jerusalem Bible readings and Grail psalms, as used at Mass in most of the English-speaking world.
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.
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I could give this app 10 stars! It just truly is wonderful. I learned about the Liturgy of the Hours from Father Mike on Ascension (it is his favourite prayer), and so I decide to learn about it and came across this app. As I explore more, I became more surprised of how complete and useful this app is! The calendar (I am from Malaysia and the reading of the day is exactly the same), the divine office, the rosary of the ‘day’ (as different scriptures are added on each Hail Mary), and I am still learning and discovering about the Lectio Divina and so on! This is just wonderful! The best purchase that I have ever made! May I live a prayerful life with this app, and God Bless! A must-need app for all the catholics indeed!
Wonderful spiritually, dosed with earthy goodness
Green_is_Good
The above caption describes what it delivers. The app is also technically good. User interface designed for pleasant easy reading. Options for voice playback deepens the experience. I highly recommend following the weekly podcasts. It is there you get captivated by the love and wisdom of the Catholic Church. The mission of the creator of the Universalis has been wonderfully executed thus far. God bless the team.
Great improved reading app, commentaries can improve
CCtrades
Technical support is helpful and responsive, app functions are easy to use. It has helped a lot with my daily readings. The reflection commentaries however are sometimes with too many branches of technical terms, info and "up in the air" vague points that leans towards a particular view rather than guiding to the depth of the essence of that particular scripture, giving readers space to reflect and for the Spirit to transform souls instead - I don't mind technical knowledge and connecting points, but in context of the readings and how it can also integrate and lead towards depth and realities of life - simple, grounded spiritual truths and reflection space
It's handy & very available
don albet
I subscribe to Universalis more then 15 years already. Im happy with a lot of upgrading done. Prayers are very handy & useful. All liturgical scripture readings & commentaries. As hand phone became a necessity thus more so because the Universalis app in it. Thank you 🙏🏻
Some updates to the calendars for Singapore and the Discalced Carmelites.
Version 3.167
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