Mārōnāyā
Maronite prayer & tradition
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Pray the Maronite way. Daily prayers, saints, reflections, and novenas rooted in 1,700 years of Syriac Maronite tradition. Carry your faith with you.
Mārōnāyā is a daily spiritual companion for the Maronite Catholic faith. Built for those who carry this tradition in their roots, and for those discovering it for the first time.
The Maronite Church has a spiritual life that is rich, distinct, and largely unknown, even to many Maronites. This app is a place to live it daily.
The liturgical seasons
The Maronite year moves through eight seasons, each carrying its own theology, colour, and spiritual mood. Consecration, Nativity, Epiphany, Great Lent, Holy Week, the Glorious Resurrection, Pentecost, the Holy Cross. The app moves with them. Your prayers, reflections, and the look of the app itself shift as the Church moves through its year, keeping you connected to the liturgical life of the community rather than practising faith in isolation.
The Gospel, every day
The Maronite Church follows its own lectionary, a distinct annual cycle of readings. Each day brings the Gospel reading for that day in the Maronite year, paired with a short reflection in the spirit of the tradition, contemplative and rooted in Scripture.
Daily prayer
Morning and night prayer from the Shehimo, the traditional prayer book Maronite families have carried across generations. The Divine Office, Safro, Ramsho, and Sootoro, is also available in full for those who want to go deeper, with Syriac texts alongside English and Arabic.
The saints and novenas
A saint for each day of the year, written to inspire rather than merely inform. Guided novenas to the great intercessors of the Maronite Church, with structured daily prayers and audio.
Tradition
A growing library of short pieces on the theology, history, and spiritual depth of the Maronite Church. Who was Saint Maroun? What is a Hoosoyo? Why does the Church pray facing East? The questions many Maronites carry but rarely find the space to explore.
Mārōnāyā is for the diaspora Maronite seeking a deeper connection to their faith. It is for the person returning who wants to come back to something real. And it is for anyone drawn to one of the most distinctive expressions of the Christian Gospel, a Church that prays in the language of Jesus and has never lost its desert roots.
Available in English and some text in Arabic.
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Information
- Seller
- Fayad Tohme
- Size
- 35.9 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Maronaya