What I particularly like about this app is that the Church Fathers can post small editorials about Christian life and go into depth, like a blog post. The daily scripture is amazing as well because it provides like a source of daily Christian knowledge, that is Orthodox rather than Protestant, something very difficult in anglophone spheres. Also, that the posts are dated makes me feel more connected to the diocese.
On that note, I feel like the chat system is too broad. Like, I would love to be able to send this as a private message or post this on a private blog sphere with my parish members, but having access to the entire user base of the app is just too intimidating and it doesn’t lend itself towards meaningful discussion. The idea of a social messaging system via the Church app is actually really interesting, but it can’t be everyone— it’s too hectic and uncontrollable.
Furthermore, I don’t understand why the prayers aren’t offered with translations in grabar, both Armenian dialects, and Russian, in addition to the English. Rather than an empty comments section, it’d be nice to toggle between Armenian and English since I personally prefer to use the liturgical language when I pray. I feel like there are others than would agree with this sentiment.
Also, it’d be very nice to have access to the full Bible with togglability between English-grabar, Russian-grabar, and Eastern Armenian-grabar.
For reference, the Copts also have an app called the “Coptic Reader” which I feel is very well produced and is worth it for the developers to take a look at.
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