Pax: Catholic Wisdom for Today

• Nearly 3,900 new quotes, from 169 voices new to Pax: St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Ávila, Bishop Erik Varden, Cardinal Cantalamessa, Theodoret of Cyrus, Dom Guéranger and many more, most of them on the Pax Complete boards. Near-repeats are folded into one, and the saints’ lives on their feasts are now told in Pax’s own words. • Sunday’s Gospel. Get ready for Mass all week. The coming Sunday’s Gospel, in the Douay-Rheims, with something new each day: the Church Fathers, a homily, the Baltimore Catechism, a triad, and a short question that saves to your journal. Tap any piece to open it on its own page, or share it as a picture with its source. A widget shows the week’s verse, and Past Sundays keeps the year behind you. Part of Pax Complete; a season pack opens its own season’s Sundays. • The seasons light the way. The Advent wreath stands beside “Pax” and gains a candle each week. The Christmas crib draws the wise men nearer until Epiphany. Lent brings a cross draped in violet, and Easter the Paschal candle. Each is also a new sticker. • Saint of the Day, free. On a saint’s feast, tap its name on the Daily Triad to read their life, with two of their quotes beneath. Days of the Church that are not one person’s open as “Today in the Church.” • Save triads, free. A heart on any triad keeps it at the top of Favorites. With Pax Complete, press and hold a favorite and choose “Make a Triad” to build one around it. Any triad can be saved to your journal. • Black Board. A new switch in Settings › Display turns the board slate-black and keeps every color of chalk. The widgets and the watch follow it. • A faster journal, and the same type everywhere, so quotes, Sundays and the journal read alike. Catechism questions now stand out in bold. • On an iPhone Duo, or an iPad on its side: the Daily Triad opens like an altar piece, and Favorites can be read as a book. Stand the phone half open like a laptop and a topic, your favorites, the Daily Triad, the journal, the examination of conscience, Sunday’s Gospel and the quote page put what you read on the top screen and what you do on the bottom. The Angelus, prayers to Our Lady and litanies go a line at a time, the Rosary shows its bead large enough to read across the table, and it keeps your place when you close the phone. Stand it like a tent and a card for the Angelus, the Hour of Mercy or the night faces the room. • Welcome back. After an update, Pax opens once with your settings as you left them. New readers signed in to iCloud now see Sync with iCloud start on; you can switch it off before you begin, and current readers keep their choice.