Lucerna vs Prayer Explorer

Lucerna is Catholic contemplative audio that shows up for you in the hardest hours — without asking you to show up for it first. Saint stories for the hours when you can't sleep, can't pray, can't be alone. Catholic. Quiet. Made to be drifted in and out of. A story-led Catholic audio library organized around how you actually arrive: in bed and can't sleep, anxious between things, sitting with grief, facing a decision, lonely and wanting a voice. WHO IT'S FOR Catholics — practicing, lapsed, or somewhere in between — who want the texture of the tradition delivered as story, not as another thing to perform. Heritage Catholics. Returning Catholics. Catholics who would close any app that performs Catholicity at them. If you've tried other Catholic prayer apps and found they ask more engagement than fits your life, Lucerna is the contemplative companion you'd been looking for in the wrong category. THE FIVE STATES Lucerna organizes content around when you actually open it, not by saint name or liturgical season: • Sleep: narrated saint lives, gospel passages, and Compline for the hours past midnight • Calm: short pieces for anxious moments, between meetings, on a walk • Solace: psalms and gospel passages for grief, loss, and the hard months • Direction: Ignatian discernment, contemplative readings for decisions • Companionship: narrator-anchored stories when you want a voice in the room You can drift, half-listen, fall asleep, or come back tomorrow. The audio never punishes inattention. It welcomes return at any point. FIVE NARRATORS Each story is told by one of five voices, each with a real human texture: • Father Kevin Donovan — Boston Irish parish priest • Rosa Marino — Italian-American grandmother • Father Francisco Reyes — Mexican-American Jesuit • Father Emeka Okonkwo — Igbo Nigerian priest • Sister Maria Wisniewska — Polish-American contemplative Pick your narrator. Return to the same voice across stories. Or let the app surface what fits the moment. CATHOLIC, BY CATHOLICS Every story passes through a Catholic advisory panel before publication. Mainstream Roman Catholic, devotional warmth without doctrinal heaviness. Iconic scripture and liturgical text presented as you'd hear them at Mass. The 2011 Roman Missal, the standard devotional prayers, the translations a practicing Catholic actually hears every week. HONEST PRICING • Free tier: Five free stories every month on rotation. No card capture. • Premium: $4.99/month or $49.99/year for the full library. • Cancel in-app at any time. No trial bait, no duplicate charges, no subscription traps. NEW STORIES EVERY WEEK The launch library covers about 25 stories across the liturgical year. New stories dropping each week — Marian content, saint lives, gospel passages, contemplative readings — anchored to where you are in the year. WHAT LUCERNA IS NOT Not a daily-prayer streak. Not a habit tracker. Not a meditation course with celebrity narrators. Not children's content. Not "transform your prayer life" — just an actual companion for the hours when you can't. --- Subscription Details • Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase or after the free trial period if offered. • Your subscription will automatically renew unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. • You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. • Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. • Privacy policy: https://getlucerna.faith/privacy • Terms of use: https://getlucerna.faith/terms

Prayer Explorer is a quiet, free companion for Catholic prayer and study. It brings together the day's liturgical calendar, traditional prayers, the Holy Rosary with voice-guided Pray Along, and a public-domain Bible reader. EVERYTHING IS FREE. Every prayer, every mystery, every reading, every feature. No accounts, no ads, no subscription, no tracking. WHAT'S INSIDE • A library of traditional Catholic prayers. Search and favorite. • Praylists: build your own prayer sequences, like three Hail Marys for a personal intention or a custom Stations set. • The Holy Rosary with all four mystery sets. Pray Along mode listens to your voice and gently follows you line by line, so you can pray with your eyes on the page or with them closed. • The Divine Mercy Chaplet, the Angelus, the Memorare, and dozens more. • Today's liturgical day: season, color, rank, feasts, and Holy Days of Obligation. • Daily Mass reading references with a one-tap link to the official USCCB text. • A full liturgical calendar by month, with feasts and color dots. • A Bible reader with public-domain translations (WEB, KJV, Douay-Rheims), text-to-speech, voice picker, line-by-line highlighting, verse favorites, and personal notes. • Reading plans you can track over time. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Favorites, notes, Praylists, and progress all stay on your device. Pray Along processes your voice on the device. Nothing is uploaded. No analytics. No third-party scripts. The Privacy Policy at prayerexplorer.com/privacy lays it out in plain English. PROUD TO PRAY If the app has helped you pray, you can send a small thanksgiving from inside the app. It is entirely optional. Nothing is gated behind it. A Catholic translation note: the in-app Bible uses public-domain translations for study and prayer. The official Lectionary text for Mass is not reproduced. Tap "Open Official Readings" to read it on the USCCB site.