You will now be alerted in the About Today page whenever a new podcast is published.
Minor updates and bug corrections.
We have made updates to the liturgical calendar for southern Africa.
Users of Android 13 once more have access to alerts and notifications, and to audio.
Minor corrections and updates.
The Collect of the day is now shown in the About Today page as well as the Readings at Mass page.
The Collect of the day is now shown in the About Today page as well as the Readings at Mass page.
Some updates to the foreign-language texts.
Minor bug corrections and improvements.
Some more foreign-language text updates.
Updated a number of the foreign language versions.
Pinch-zoom now gives you an easier way to get the exact text size you want.
The Daily Book “The Mass in Close-Up” is now in a new edition revised by its author, Father Antony Jones STL, PhL.
Improvements in some foreign-language texts.
The Rosary page now has a verse of Scripture before each Hail Mary in each of the Mysteries. There is also a new lightweight “One Decade a Day” mode for when you are short of time.
Improved compatibility with Android 12.
If you are subscribing to the spoken audio of the Liturgy of the Hours, and are using the RSV translation of the scripture readings, you will now hear them spoken in the RSV translation and not (as previously) in the Jerusalem Bible version.
If you are in the USA then from September 5 onwards you will be able to hear daily clips by the author of “The Creed in Slow Motion” in advance of the US publication of the book on October 18, briefly describing the theme of each chapter.
Updated the local calendar for Liverpool, and the text of some foreign-language versions.
Several corrections and improvements, in English and in foreign languages.
Cured a crash which happened when you opened the Settings screen.
Updates to some of the more exotic local calendars.
People who listen to the spoken audio of Vespers can now hear the Invitatory Psalm if it is selected for that hour.
“Journey into Light: The Challenge and Enchantment of Catholic Christianity” by Roderick Strange is now available for purchase as a Daily Book.
“Journey into Light: The Challenge and Enchantment of Catholic Christianity” by Roderick Strange is now available for purchase as a Daily Book.
A few more small corrections.
General updates and corrections.
More foreign-language texts have been added.
Compline (Night Prayer) is now available in Estonian.
General improvements in texts, calendars, and features.
Updated versions of most of the audio files are now available.
For those of you who like to read the Gospel in Greek in parallel with the English, we now have the text of the scholarly Nestle-Aland edition.
We have corrected the Mass readings for the feast of St Patrick in England, Wales and Scotland.
Compline (Night Prayer) is now additionally available in Albanian.
The three new Memorials of Doctors of the Church have been added to the calendar.
The three new Memorials of Doctors of the Church have been added to the calendar.
We have corrected some minor misprints in the Mass readings.
The Mass Today page now contains a Spiritual Communion prayer for those who are following a Mass remotely.
We have moved the Epiphany in Scotland to Sunday 3 January 2021.
Corrected an error in the Mass texts for Advent Sunday.
Updated some more foreign-language texts.
Some more text updates, especially for foreign languages.
Following the recent decision of the Bishops, Saint John Henry Newman is now shown as a feast in England and Wales.
General calendar updates.
The Liturgy of the Hours is now available in Malagasy as well as the other languages.
There have been some updates to the calendars, notably for New Zealand and for the Discalced Carmelites.
For those of you who subscribe to the spoken audio and also use one of the Carmelite calendars, many antiphons and prayers have now been recorded.
The “Authors of Second Readings” thread in the About Today page is now complete.
A small bug corrected in the selection of hymns in the Hours on ferial days.
Several of the foreign-language versions have been updated and extended.
Added the Votive Mass in Time of Pandemic: it is accessible from the “Special” button in the calendar screen.
The audio system was sometimes over-enthusiastic and told you an update was available when in fact there had been no change since your last download. This has now been corrected.
We have corrected a bug which caused trouble with audio downloads for some people.
Small corrections and improvements.
Updates and minor bug corrections.
Some minor corrections and updates.
Some more Danish texts have been added, and also the local calendar for the diocese of Northampton.
There are now more of Dom Henry Wansbrough’s commentaries available for the readings at Mass during Advent.
There is a new page in the Hours menu, called “Spiritual Reading”. It gives a variety of readings for today. Try it!
The About Today page now includes the Novena for the Newman Canonisation, which runs from 4 to 12 October.
We have smoothed out some rough edges in the audio download experience.
On some versions of Android, pressing the Play button at the bottom of the screen, and then pressing “Find out more”, gave you a blank screen instead of information about the audio subscription. This has now been corrected.
Some minor corrections.
When you send us a message through the "Contact Us" command, it now contains some extra information about your settings so that we can give you more accurate advice.
More illustrations in the About Today pages, covering dates up to the end of March.
Daily meditations for Lent by Dom Henry Wansbrough OSB, courtesy of the Catholic Truth Society. You will find these in the About Today page, starting on Ash Wednesday.
More illustrations in the About Today pages.
Daily meditations for Lent by Dom Henry Wansbrough OSB, courtesy of the Catholic Truth Society. You will find these in the About Today page, starting on Ash Wednesday.
We have made it simpler to enter a registration code if you are using Chrome OS.
For those of you who subscribe to the spoken audio: some Android devices were occasionally omitting one psalm or reading. This was rare, and random, but we have now found the cause and eliminated it.
We have extended the popular series of "About Today" articles about authors of the Second Reading and made other corrections and improvements.
The “About Today” page now shows information about the author of the Second Readings in the day’s Office of Readings.
If you listen to the spoken audio and store the audio file on an SD card, the download process is now more robust.
We have corrected some minor bugs and misprints.
Some people were missing the last page or two from the longer Hours. This was a bug. The bug is dead.
At the end of the Readings at Mass page we are often able to show you the longer passages from which the actual Mass readings are taken. This lets you study them better in their original context.
The Office of Readings is allowed to be combined with another Hour (according to the time of day). We now offer you this option, by means of a menu button next to the “Office of Readings” heading.
The usual corrections and adjustments, plus:
The alternative languages for the Order of Mass now include a version of Igbo.
If you are subscribing to the spoken English Hours, you can now get the First Reading in the Office of Readings, by pressing the Play button on the Office of Readings page.
Various calendar improvements, including corrected Mass readings for St Thomas More.
A new “Wider Margins” setting to give you more white space on either side of the text. You will find it under “Display” in the Settings screen.
In the local calendars, France and Denmark have been added.
In the Liturgy of the Hours, a preliminary version of Irish Gaelic has been added.
If you subscribe to spoken audio of the Hours, Night Prayer is now included.
In the psalms in the Liturgy of the Hours, “chant marks” show you where the stresses in each line should go. For example:
“If you lóok at the márks, /
You will sée how the psálm should be chánted.”
The chant marks are optional and you can turn them on and off. They are quite useful even if you are only chanting silently in your head.
We have corrected the Mass readings for the daytime Mass at Pentecost.
If you are reading the Hours on your own, the new "Study Hymns" option gives you the Latin text of the official hymn for the Hour, with a literal English translation next to it so that you can understand the Latin. There is also a short commentary. You will see a menu button for this, next to the hymn heading.
Thanks to the help of a kind collaborator, we are now able to offer Carmelite versions of the local calendars. You can activate this option in the Settings within the app.
We have made some corrections to the new Lectio Divina page and updated a couple of local calendars.
Psalm-prayers have been added after each psalm. Some people love them, some people hate them! If you hate them, you can turn them off in the app's Settings screen.If you are using parallel Latin-English for the Order of Mass, you will now get the prayers and antiphons of the Mass in both Latin and English.
General bug corrections and minor improvements.
The Mass readings from the Jerusalem Bible now have titles.If you want to beef up Morning Prayer, tap the menu button to the right of the heading of the Morning Prayer page: the “Neocatechumenal Way” setting will add the long readings from the Office of Readings and also the Gospel for the day’s Mass.
If you have a subscription to spoken audio in English for Morning and Evening Prayer, this now also includes the daytime Hours (Terce, Sext and None; Mid-Morning, Midday and Afternoon Prayer).We have added the Swedish liturgical calendar and made corrections to the calendar for the Philippines.
Some antiphons have been updated at Lauds and Vespers; and we have added Setswana to the list of parallel languages available for the Order of Mass. The Benedictus and Magnificat antiphons for Sunday 17 December have been corrected.
Revised calendar for Clifton; new calendar for Shrewsbury; some antiphons and translations adjusted.
If you subscribe to the audio of spoken Morning Prayer, this now gives you spoken Evening Prayer as well.
A couple of minor cosmetic improvements.
We have corrected a bug to do with the Preface in the Mass Today page, and taken the opportunity to add Latin prefaces for those of you who read that page in the parallel Latin-English form.
There are important updates to the local calendars for England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Southern Arabia.As always, you can use the "Contact Us" command (under the "i" button in the toolbar) for questions, suggestions, corrections and so on. We look forward to hearing from you!
Music and speech in Universalis!Purchase: Sung Latin Compline at Night Prayer.Monthly subscriptions: Morning Prayer and the Gospel of the day, spoken in English. The daytime Hours, spoken in Latin.To find these things, go to the relevant page, tap in the middle, and then press the Play button that appears at the bottom. There are free samples of everything.After the initial download, you don't need an Internet connection.
There is a new "About This Page" command in the Information section of the toolbar, which tells you all about the currently displayed Hour. And we have added an option for a dark toolbar for those that prefer it.By the way, to make the toolbar appear, just tap anywhere in the middle of the screen! There is no need to aim for the very top.
V2.03: We have added some new commands and made the old ones more accessible through a new toolbar. It disappears automatically to get out of the way of your reading, but you can make it permanent if you prefer.
V1.44: We have updated the Mass readings for the feast of the Baptism of the Lord.
