Despite what Hamlet and Ecclesiastes say, words have meaning, and words have power. Words reveal who we are, and words tell us who we can be. Words shape us far more than we realize.Every Moment Holy laughs in the face of rhetorical complacency and rebels against our cultural ambivalence to the formative economy of words as we are given the flowering and precise language of gardening, beekeeping, reading, and sleeping.So take this gift from McKelvey wherever you go and hear the language of the miraculously mundane reminding you that you are a beloved child of the Creator God.

I own Every Moment Holy Volume I and am thrilled that they now have an app; I’ve often wondered how I might use the liturgies they’ve written that highlight the holy in the mundane when I’m unable to haul their book with me everywhere. Problem solved! And so many of the liturgies are available for free with the app! How kind. The reason for 3 stars: The app has a lovely “favorites” feature that I planned to use as a bookmark for the liturgies I wanted to use more regularly. Yesterday I marked them and today they are gone, error message “no favorite liturgy available”. Hope the bug can be fixed easily, as this is a helpful feature that will increase my likelihood of using the app daily.

These books are amazing and life-changing! Two critiques of the app: the daily liturgies don’t refresh automatically. You have to click out of that screen and back in every day. I also think that if you’ve purchased both books you should have free access to all liturgies. The app should function as access on the go.Update just got a very courteous email, looking forward to chatting. Upping my review accordingly.

With Every Moment Holy (vols. I & II) author Douglas McKelvey has managed to create liturgical food for the soul when my own feelings and thoughts are so hard to put to words. From topics as mundane as camping or cooking (feasting) to the difficult and delicate topics of suicide and death, words of comfort and blessings abound in these volumes. With the advent of these apps, I can have them at my fingertips even when away from home without my books. Thank you!!!