Lumen Christi vs Suscipe

Lumen Christi is one home for your Catholic devotional life - the daily Mass readings, the Bible you actually pray with, the hymns you grew up with, and the Catechism, in a single, quietly beautiful app. No more juggling four apps before breakfast. Open Lumen Christi each morning to today's Lectionary readings, the Rosary cued to the right mystery, a Verse of the Day that follows the liturgical season, and a hymn for the day's Mass. In English, Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa, Kiswahili, and Latin. Free forever. Works offline. - EVERY MORNING - • Today's Mass Readings - First Reading, Responsorial Psalm, Second Reading, and Gospel - drawn faithfully from the Roman Lectionary • A liturgically-aware Verse of the Day that honors the season - Advent, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Ordinary Time • A short reflection to help the Word take root before the day begins - ELEVEN CATHOLIC BIBLES, IN ONE APP - Built for Catholics who pray with a particular translation and don't want to compromise. The Bibles include: English (seven trusted Catholic editions) • Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition (RSV-CE) • New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) • New American Bible (NAB) • New International Version, 1984 (NIV 1984) • Good News Translation • The Jerusalem Bible • English Standard Version, Catholic Edition (ESV-CE) African languages • Bíbélì Mímọ - Yorùbá Catholic Bible • Baịbụl Nsọ - Igbo Catholic Bible • Littafi Mai Tsarki - Hausa Catholic Bible • Biblia Habari Njema, Toleo la Pamoja - Kiswahili More African-language Catholic Bibles are in the pipeline. - THE GREAT PRAYERS OF THE CHURCH - • The Holy Rosary, with the day's correct mysteries pre-selected • Stations of the Cross • Divine Mercy Chaplet • Benediction & Liturgy of the Hours (Morning, Daytime, Evening, Night) • A growing library of traditional Catholic prayers • Bookmark verses, build reading plans, and track your progress - HYMNS, WITH AUDIO + SYNCHRONIZED LYRICS - For anyone who has ever carried a hymn book in their luggage: • 1,000+ hymns from the Nigerian Catholic Hymn Book and beyond • Igbo, Yorùbá, Hausa, English, Latin chant, and contemporary • Audio playback with lyrics that scroll in time with the music • Filter by Mass part (Entrance, Offertory, Communion...), season, or occasion - find the right hymn in seconds - A CATECHISM YOU'LL ACTUALLY OPEN - The complete Catechism of the Catholic Church, designed for the way people read on phones. Fully searchable. Beautifully typeset. For the catechumen preparing for baptism, the confirmandi, the parent answering a child's question - and anyone who wants to know what the Church actually teaches. - BUILT FOR REAL LIFE - • Works offline once you've opened a page - pray on the bus, in the pew, in places with no signal • Quiet, focused design - no ads, no tracking, never sells your attention • Free forever • Optional sign-in to sync bookmarks, hymn favorites, and your prayer streak across devices • Lives of the Saints with feast-day reminders May the Light of Christ go with you.

Suscipe is a Catholic devotional companion rooted in the Ignatian tradition. The prayer that gives the app its name — Suscipe, Domine, universam meam libertatem — sits at its heart. THE DAILY EXAMEN Pray Saint Ignatius's five-step Examen of Consciousness in the morning to direct the day, and again in the evening to read it. Each step opens with a prompt and an invitation — Latin alongside English on every step. Close the morning Examen with the Suscipe; close the evening with the Pater Noster or, if you prefer, the Anima Christi. THE THIRTY-DAY SPIRITUAL EXERCISES The full Ignatian retreat in its traditional structure, beginning with the Principle and Foundation and walking through the Four Weeks: Sin and Mercy, the Public Life of Christ, the Passion, and the Resurrection. Each day opens with a hub — foundation quote, today's structure, opening CTA — and a six-step flow: preparatory prayer, composition of place, petition for grace, meditation points, colloquy, and the Pater Noster. THE PRAYER LIBRARY Thirteen central Catholic prayers in their canonical Latin and traditional English: Suscipe, Anima Christi, Prayer for Generosity, Pater Noster, Ave Maria, Gloria Patri, Memorare, Veni Creator Spiritus, Salve Regina, Angelus, Te Deum, Magnificat, and the Act of Contrition. Each carries an authorship note, a source citation, and where helpful a note on the language tradition. DAILY PRAYER + DAILY QUOTE A different Catholic prayer for every day of the year, paired with a Scripture verse or saint-quote arranged to the liturgical calendar. ABOUT ST. IGNATIUS A reverent biography in seven sections — the soldier of Loyola, his conversion, Montserrat and Manresa, Paris, the first companions, the founding of the Society of Jesus, his death and canonization — with a Spiritual Legacy section, the Sacred Places of his life (Loyola, Montserrat, Manresa, Paris, La Storta, Rome), and his sayings. LITURGICAL LIGHT Suscipe's chrome breathes through the day. A warm Marian Dawn palette in the morning — golden-red, deep brick, peach horizon, rising-sun gold — crossfading at noon and 4:30 AM into the deep Pilgrim Sunset of the evening: terracotta, burnt clay, dark earth, gold ember. THE UNLOCK Every prayer, every quote, every page of the Spiritual Exercises is free, and that is not changing. The personal practice tools — the Tracker (anchor and supplemental practice tracking, with streaks, perfect days, monthly grid, and year heatmap), the Journal (with reflective prompts and PDF export), and the Colloquy Timer (3, 5, or 10 minutes of paced contemplation with a soft chime) — are available through the unlock at $0.99 a month or $9.99 a year, both with a seven-day free trial. PRIVACY Your prayer history, journal entries, retreat day completions, and Examen reflections live on your device. If iCloud is enabled, they sync through Apple's end-to-end encrypted iCloud backup. No analytics, no third-party trackers, no servers we run. A NOTE ON THE TEXTS The Catholic prayers in Suscipe come down to us in Latin from the Roman Missal, the Vulgate, and the Raccolta. The English is Edward Caswall's nineteenth-century translation paired with the traditional forms. Scripture is from the Douay-Rheims. St. Ignatius wrote his Spiritual Exercises in Spanish — El Rey Eterno, Principio y Fundamento are his own words, not Latin translations. The app preserves these distinctions because language is part of what the prayer is. THE STUDIO Suscipe is part of the Sanctified Souls collective — a small Catholic studio making devotional tools for the faithful. Sister apps: Sanctified Souls, St. Bridget Prayers, The Little Way, and Via Virtutum. Privacy Policy:: https://www.sanctifiedsouls.net/privacy Terms of Service:: https://www.sanctifiedsouls.net/terms