Universalis vs Philothea

Universalis is a missal and a breviary, and more besides. It gives you the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) and the Mass for every day; plus valuable additional material. Tens of thousands of people use Universalis daily. Come and join them! • Single purchase: the app lasts for ever. It does not need a subscription to make it work. • No Internet needed: everything you need is already built in. • No cleverness needed: each day, Universalis works out exactly what you need to see. • View any date: past, present and future. • Use your own local calendar: USA, Canada, Singapore, Ireland, and every diocese in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. • Easy to read and use: a choice of fonts; big or small type; dark or light theme; page-turning or scrolling. • Optional add-on: spoken audio read by real human beings (this needs a subscription: see below). • Latin if you want it: by itself or alongside the English. • Help and support: tips and instructions are included; or press “Contact Us” to send us a message, and we will reply. EXTRA MATERIAL • The “About Today” page tells you what saints are being celebrated today, worldwide. It includes reflections, biographies and illustrations. • “Mass Today” gives you the Order of Mass and today’s readings and prayers, all in one page. Bishops have been known to use it to say Mass from their iPads! • “Spiritual Reading” gathers the patristic and hagiographic readings for all the saints and feasts of the day. • “The Rosary” has a verse of Scripture for every Hail Mary of every Mystery. Spoken audio is included. • Daily Books takes selected spiritual classics and presents them in daily instalments to focus and enrich your prayer life. • Commentaries on the day’s Mass readings from a leading biblical scholar. And more – Home Screen widgets; liturgical events for your iOS calendar; daily email service; copy and paste into other apps; reminders and alarms; Mass readings on your Apple Watch. LITURGY OF THE HOURS (Divine Office) The complete official Liturgy of the Hours of the Catholic Church, as used worldwide. Morning (Lauds), daytime (Terce, Sext and None), evening (Vespers), night (Compline) and the deeply reflective Office of Readings. Do as many or as few of them as you like. • The psalms and canticles match the official English and American books. Scripture readings – United States: RSV. Elsewhere: Jerusalem Bible (with RSV as an optional add-on). READINGS AT MASS The exact prayers and readings at Mass for each day. • England, Wales, Scotland: the official ESV version. • United States: the official NAB version. • Elsewhere: Jerusalem Bible readings and Grail psalms, as used at Mass in most of the English-speaking world. OPTIONAL ADD-ON AUDIO (in-app purchase required) Just press the button and listen! If you want to see what you are hearing, the text is highlighted to follow the sound. After an initial download, no Internet is required. Works with CarPlay too. • Spoken English Liturgy of the Hours: every Hour of every day of every year. Monthly or annual subscription. • Spoken English Mass Readings: First and Second Reading and the Gospel. Jerusalem Bible translation only. Monthly or annual subscription. (You can listen to a sample before subscribing. Following App Store rules, subscriptions renew automatically but you can cancel auto-renewal at any time.) • Sung Latin Compline (Night Prayer): by the boys of the Schola Cantorum of the London Oratory School. Single purchase. -- Privacy policy and terms of service: universalis.com/n-ios-privacy.htm

Philothea is a quiet companion for the devout life — a thirty-day walk through Saint Francis de Sales's Introduction à la vie dévote (1609), the classic Catholic handbook for keeping a devout life in the middle of an ordinary one. The saint addressed his book to a young laywoman named Philothée — "soul who loves God" — and he meant you. He wrote, "It is an error, or rather a heresy, to wish to banish the devout life from the regiment of soldiers, the mechanic's shop, the court of princes, or the home of married people." Wherever you live, whatever you do, devotion is for you. EVERY PRAYER, ALWAYS FREE The whole devotional life of the app costs nothing: • The thirty-day retreat — walked day by day, with a 40-day Lent and 28-day Advent variant • The six-step daily flow — preparation, composition of place, petition for grace, meditation, colloquy with the Lord, and a closing Pater Noster • The Prayer Library — Salesian short prayers and the central prayers of the Tradition (Pater, Ave, Gloria, Anima Christi) in French and English • Daily reading — Citation of the Day, Companion, a passage of the Treatise on the Love of God, the Letter of the Week • Direction of Intention — the Visitation's small practice, a word at the start of every task placing it under His care • Bilingual always — French and English side by side throughout WITH STUDIO SUPPORT A $0.99/month or $6.99/year subscription (with a 7-day free trial) adds the personal-practice tools that follow your walk day by day: • Journal — kept day by day, with categories for gratitude, reflection, prayer, and intention • Day-by-day retreat progress — your walk, kept on parchment • Spiritual Bouquet — long-press any citation, treatise passage, or companion line to keep it • Bookmarks with private notes • Letter of the Week sharing • An annual renewal feast — pick Saint Francis de Sales (24 January), Ash Wednesday, the First Sunday of Advent, or All Saints, and the retreat returns to you each year SOURCES YOU CAN TRUST Every long-form text is drawn from a public-domain printed source. French letters from the Annecy Œuvres complètes (vols XI–XXI, 1892–1923). English from Mackey, Letters to Persons in the World (London: Burns & Oates, 1894). The Pater Noster is the pre-Vatican-II formal vous form. The voice is Catholic-to-Catholic, no hedging. A SALESIAN PRACTICE The retreat ends; the devout life begins. On the final day, Saint Francis blesses Philothée and sends her back into her ordinary hours — and Philothea keeps walking with her. The Today screen rotates fresh every day so the practice doesn't end with the retreat. From Sanctified Souls — a small Catholic studio. Vive Jésus. Privacy Policy: https://www.sanctifiedsouls.net/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.sanctifiedsouls.net/terms