Incredibly useful. Must have for Easterns
This app has so many features that are helpful for anyone who wants to deepen their faith.
Glory to Jesus Christ!
I went from Roman Catholic, and now I’ve been attending Saint Melany’s Byzantine Catholic Church for 4 months now, and having an app like this has helped and has been a game changer for me. Glory to Jesus Christ!
not accessible
This app is not meant for the neuro compromised. It is limited for the vision impaired.
Treasure for life
Excellent , Daily Prayers, Etc…..
Professional and Beautiful
A beautiful dedication to the eastern church and Byzantine rite. The Byzantine church needs more dedication like this. Thank you and God bless you.
Incredible! Thank you so much ECPubs
My family and I use this every single day. We’ve made tremendous leaps in our daily prayer because of the resources given on your app. Thank you ECPubs and thank you Jack Figel! God grant you many years!
Very helpful
Because of this app I carry the Byzantine hours and daily scripture readings as well as the Saint of the day with me everywhere. Thus, if I forget my book, I still have the prayers. It is a great help to my prayer life and I highly recommend it. I also feel more connected to my fellow Byzantines!
(The updated version is amazing! Thanks!)
(The updated version is amazing! Thanks!)
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New updates are fantastic
I’ve had this app for years but rarely used it because it didn’t have an audio function and I do not know the tones off the top of my head. With the new audio function I can play the morning and evening prayers aloud and then back out and go to the text section on here and sing along. It’s excellent!
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Start of day
This is my go to app each and every day grab a cup of coffee and open the app and begin…
Great start for my day
Beautiful, short and to the point daily spiritual reflection.
Normally great, occasionally glaringly bad
This app has been a life-saver in so many ways. As an avid long-distance hiker, I am obviously unable to carry the library of books that are required for the Byzantine office in my backpack; while I do pack a small book with abbreviated hours (including orthros/matins, which this app lacks entirely), when I have cellphone reception, I happily use this, especially for vespers.
The issue is with the prayer propers for the day: consistently, they are glaringly wrong. The app routinely uses the “common troparia” for the saint (even when the menaia does have a particular one for the saint), though it regularly has the wrong one, say, the common tropar for a monastic when the actual saint of the day is a female martyr.
As another example, at the time of my typing this, it is the eve of the Sunday of the Myrrh Bearing Women. The vespers troparia that it gives (coming just before the final blessing) is the opening Marian troparia used for Lenten vespers, as opposed to what is actually prescribed: first the resurrection troparia of tone 2, followed by the troparia for St Joseph of Arimathea, and then that of the Myrrh Bearing Women.
Mistakes are inevitable, but I find ones like this to be...... well, I want to say “unforgivable”, but I am a Christian😂 Let’s just say “inexcusable”.
I share these prayers with various friends all over the work, including a friend in Nigeria who, thanks to this resource, prays the Byzantine hours and vespers with his family, and it has been especially fruitful in their own faith journey, for which I am thankful, in addition to the aforementioned ways that it has been incredibly beneficial in my own life.
With that said, my only other caveat is the absence of orthros/matins? I get that few people pray the canons (which is unfortunate), but surely there must be a way to include this, maybe with the option of loading it with or without the canon, maybe also with the canon listed separately, if anyone wants to pray it separately?
The issue is with the prayer propers for the day: consistently, they are glaringly wrong. The app routinely uses the “common troparia” for the saint (even when the menaia does have a particular one for the saint), though it regularly has the wrong one, say, the common tropar for a monastic when the actual saint of the day is a female martyr.
As another example, at the time of my typing this, it is the eve of the Sunday of the Myrrh Bearing Women. The vespers troparia that it gives (coming just before the final blessing) is the opening Marian troparia used for Lenten vespers, as opposed to what is actually prescribed: first the resurrection troparia of tone 2, followed by the troparia for St Joseph of Arimathea, and then that of the Myrrh Bearing Women.
Mistakes are inevitable, but I find ones like this to be...... well, I want to say “unforgivable”, but I am a Christian😂 Let’s just say “inexcusable”.
I share these prayers with various friends all over the work, including a friend in Nigeria who, thanks to this resource, prays the Byzantine hours and vespers with his family, and it has been especially fruitful in their own faith journey, for which I am thankful, in addition to the aforementioned ways that it has been incredibly beneficial in my own life.
With that said, my only other caveat is the absence of orthros/matins? I get that few people pray the canons (which is unfortunate), but surely there must be a way to include this, maybe with the option of loading it with or without the canon, maybe also with the canon listed separately, if anyone wants to pray it separately?
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Bugs
It’s normally been fine, but today it has chosen not to work beyond the loading screen. I can not access anything, even after redownloading the app. Please fix this.
An important part of my morning prayer
Particularly enjoy the reflection.
Still confusing to me
If this is intended to make the Liturgy of the Hours approachable to laity, it is not bad but it falls a bit short. I would like to see the complete daily Liturgy as opposed to it hiding prayers that should have already been said. Also, how about set of instructions or guide. If it is there, it is well hidden. I would like to use this App but usually go to other sources for the Hours or other prayer.
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Blind Priest
I was really excited when I saw this app, but then was very disappointed, when I discovered it was not accessible. As a blind person who uses the voiceover, this app is not accessible, because the text format is not readable by the voiceover. Prayers of the church need to be accessible for everyone, regardless of whether they can see or not. As a Roman Catholic priest who is wanting to learn about the Byzantine tradition, this was very detrimental.
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Decent Magazine format but Liturgy of the Hours has loads of mistakes
Since I really only use this app to have access in English to the little hours and occasionally Vespers, I left the rating in the middle so as not to judge harshly the content as uploaded from the magazine.
I will comment that it would be nice The the gospel referenced in the coffee prayer was actually the same as the gospel of the day, but that’s less important to me now.
The Lesser Hours and Vespers, while wonderful to have as resources finally on my phone so that, should I be away from home but want to pray (some of) the canonical Hours, I can do so, are riddled with mistakes and don’t seem to correspond with correct Byzantine usage of any Typikon.
At the Theotokia of the Stikhera or Apostikhera, instead of following correct usage and choosing the one in the matching tone corresponding to the day of the week, regularly the one for the tone of the week is presented.
That’s a minor mistake.
At the Lenten Lesser Hours there seems to be much confusion, and a particularly glaring oversight in not including the Lenten Prayer of St Ephraim. Additionally at the 6th Hour, the prophecy is delayed, for no apparent reason or according to any apparent typikon, from its proper position between the theotokion of the hour and the verses of the hour to after the Kontakion and before the prayer of the Hours.
Regularly the wrong Troparia/Kondakia are presented, for instance today (the 5th Thursday of the Fast) the Kondakia after the Our Father are supposed to be replaced with the Kondakion of the Great Canon, yet instead we find the daily Kondakia.
These are all small mistakes but added together make for a very unprofessional and poorly presented offering for people who wish to pray along with the prayer of the Church.
The excuse that the majority of people can’t tell the difference is not at all valid since it is precisely for that reason that those who present resources ought to make every effort to be precise and accurate.
I will comment that it would be nice The the gospel referenced in the coffee prayer was actually the same as the gospel of the day, but that’s less important to me now.
The Lesser Hours and Vespers, while wonderful to have as resources finally on my phone so that, should I be away from home but want to pray (some of) the canonical Hours, I can do so, are riddled with mistakes and don’t seem to correspond with correct Byzantine usage of any Typikon.
At the Theotokia of the Stikhera or Apostikhera, instead of following correct usage and choosing the one in the matching tone corresponding to the day of the week, regularly the one for the tone of the week is presented.
That’s a minor mistake.
At the Lenten Lesser Hours there seems to be much confusion, and a particularly glaring oversight in not including the Lenten Prayer of St Ephraim. Additionally at the 6th Hour, the prophecy is delayed, for no apparent reason or according to any apparent typikon, from its proper position between the theotokion of the hour and the verses of the hour to after the Kontakion and before the prayer of the Hours.
Regularly the wrong Troparia/Kondakia are presented, for instance today (the 5th Thursday of the Fast) the Kondakia after the Our Father are supposed to be replaced with the Kondakion of the Great Canon, yet instead we find the daily Kondakia.
These are all small mistakes but added together make for a very unprofessional and poorly presented offering for people who wish to pray along with the prayer of the Church.
The excuse that the majority of people can’t tell the difference is not at all valid since it is precisely for that reason that those who present resources ought to make every effort to be precise and accurate.
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