Common Hours: Daily Office

The Daily Office of the 1979 Prayer Book, prayed, not paged. Common Hours assembles every office for every day of the year: the right psalms, readings, canticles and collects, in order, on one continuous page. No ribbons, no flipping between sections, nothing to look up. Make your choices once and each day arrives complete. EVERY OFFICE FOR TODAY, FREE Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Evening Prayer, Compline and the short Daily Devotions for today, Rite One or Rite Two, complete and free. No account, no ads, no interruptions in the middle of the Psalms. THE CALENDAR, RIGHT • Year One and Year Two of the Daily Office Lectionary • Sundays, Holy Days and Principal Feasts with their proper psalms and lessons • Feasts transferred exactly as the rubrics require, with a note on the day • Eves of feasts, Ember and Rogation Days, days of special devotion • Tested against the published lectionary for every day from 2024 to 2028 EVERY CHOICE MADE FOR YOU • Opening sentences and invitatory antiphons for the season • Venite, Jubilate or Christ our Passover, and Psalm 95 on the days appointed • Canticles from the Table of Suggested Canticles • The Collect of the Day, the weekday collect and a prayer for mission • Lay or priest forms of the absolution • Change anything in Settings, or just for today with one tap MADE FOR PRAYING • Beautiful serif typography, people’s parts in bold, rubrics in red • Psalms laid out verse by verse with the traditional pause • Large text, Dark Mode and full VoiceOver support • Opens exactly where you left off • Gentle reminders that name the day’s feast • Short guide notes for newcomers • Your own intercessions prayed in the office, a prayer journal and bookmarks FOR THOSE WHO LEAD • Group mode with Officiant and People labels • Prayer Book page numbers • Share or copy the whole office COMMON HOURS PRO • Any date, past or future: look ahead to Sunday, prepare to lead, or pray a day you missed • Read aloud with a natural on-device voice, with lock-screen controls • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac • Unlimited intercessions (three are free) • Add any collect to every office • Widgets for Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy • Sepia, Night and Candlelight themes Pro is available monthly, yearly with a free first month, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Family Sharing is included. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs on your device. We collect no data at all. Your intercessions and journal sync only through your own iCloud. Liturgical texts are from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and Scripture from a modern English translation, both in the public domain. Common Hours is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any church, diocese or publisher. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/