Catholic Essentials

Catholic Essentials has been rebuilt completely — new from the first line. BIGGER TEXT, AT LAST The most common request, finally answered properly. Every prayer now follows your iPhone's text size, with a slider beside the text for finer control. Words reflow as they grow, so nothing runs off the screen. DARK MODE For night prayer and early mornings. Follows your phone, or set it to always dark in Settings. MORE THAN 180 PRAYERS Up from around twenty. A GUIDED ROSARY Follow it bead by bead. The app knows the day's mysteries, keeps your place, and picks up where you stopped. Every decade has a scripture reading and a short reflection, in both languages. TEN NOVENAS, WITH A NINE-DAY TRACKER Including the Pasiyam, and novenas for the sick, for overseas workers, for students, and for families apart. Miss a day and the app simply helps you continue. HOLY WEEK, PROPERLY Visita Iglesia, Bisita Iglesya, the Stations of the Cross and the Tagalog Scriptural Way of the Cross. Each station is now its own page instead of a scanned image you had to zoom into. REMINDERS The Angelus at 6:00 AM, noon and 6:00 PM. The Hour of Mercy at 3:00 PM. Turn on only what you want. THE CHURCH'S CALENDAR The app follows the liturgical season and shows Philippine feasts — Santo Niño, Peñafrancia, Undas, Simbang Gabi. Plus a calendar of saints. SEARCH AND BOOKMARKS Look for anything in Tagalog or English. Save what you come back to. A TAGALOG APP, IN TAGALOG The menus and buttons can be set to Filipino too, not just the prayers. Thank you to everyone who kept using the old version and told us what was wrong with it. The font complaint was fair, and this release exists because of it.