The Narrow Path vs Verse Arcade

Is today a fast day? Whose feast is it? What does the Church read today? The Narrow Path answers from your own tradition's calendar, every day. The Narrow Path is a daily companion for Eastern Orthodox Christians, catechumens and inquirers. Built for the Greek, Antiochian, OCA, Russian, Serbian and Romanian traditions, on the New or Old Calendar as your Church keeps it. TODAY, IN ONE PLACE The fast and the feast, the daily readings and hymns, a short daily reflection, and a prayer to begin. SAINT OF THE DAY The lives of the saints commemorated today, with their hymns, and original icons for a growing number of saints and feasts. A free widget shows today's saint and the fast rule on your Home Screen and Lock Screen. THE PRAYER BOOK AND YOUR OWN RULE Morning, midday, evening and night prayers, and prayers by topic. In My Prayers, add your own prayers, arrange your morning and evening rule around the prayer book, and keep the names of the living and the departed. THE WHOLE PSALTER All twenty kathismata, read by stasis, through in twenty days or a week. THE BIBLE THE CHURCH READS Choose the Septuagint Old Testament, in Brenton's translation with the Septuagint's psalm numbers, paired with the New King James Version (NKJV) New Testament. Or keep the King James Version, with Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch and the Maccabees in their places. Your readings and the kathismata follow your choice. CHURCH FATHERS BY TOPIC A hundred passages from the Church Fathers on ten topics, each with its source and translation named. CATECHUMEN TRACK Becoming Orthodox? A five-unit course on Orthodox faith, worship, history and practice, with quizzes. PRAYER JOURNAL AND CONFESSION Keep your prayer requests and mark them answered. Prepare for Confession with an examination of conscience drawn from Orthodox tradition. ASK THE TRADITION AND BIBLE STUDY Ask about theosis, the Divine Liturgy, the holy icons or a hard passage of Scripture, and receive answers grounded in the Church Fathers and the Councils. Ask in Greek, Russian, Serbian or Spanish, and it answers in your language. It is an AI assistant with strict guardrails, not an authority: always take your questions to your priest. YOUR PRIVACY No ads, ever. Confession preparation and your Ask the Tradition history stay on your device. So does My Prayers, unless you turn on sync. The Meta SDK is used only to measure our ads; it never receives your prayers, your journal or anything you type. Our commitments: walkthenarrowpath.app/trust FREE, NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Today, Saint of the Day, the prayer book, My Prayers, the Psalter, the Bible in every translation, the Catechumen Track, Confession preparation and the fasting calendar are all free. Ask the Tradition and Bible Study include a free daily allowance, the Prayer Journal includes free entries to start, and every Church Fathers topic opens with two free passages. No account is required; sign in only if you want a backup on another device. PRO Pro gives full access to Ask the Tradition and Bible Study, with Bible Study Deep Dive, to every Church Fathers passage, and to the Prayer Journal beyond its free entries. It adds up to three more daily prayer reminders, each opening its own prayer, plus Daily Scripture widgets for your iPhone Home Screen and Lock Screen. Choose a monthly or annual plan. A free trial is available to eligible new subscribers. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your account settings. Pro is for personal devotion; a fair-use limit applies. Terms of Use: https://walkthenarrowpath.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://walkthenarrowpath.app/privacy The Narrow Path has obtained licensing for the NKJV through API.Bible. New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved. "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matthew 7:14

Open the Bible and actually want to. Verse Arcade turns Scripture into a fast, friendly daily game — and nobody loses. TWO THINGS EVERY DAY One verse goes live for everyone at the same time. Read it, then race the clock through five questions about that exact verse: which book it's from, who's speaking, who's being addressed, what happens next. Beside it, a second round: five questions about one book of the Bible, the same book for everybody, from a bank of over 400. YOU CAN'T LOSE, ONLY LEARN Miss one? No buzzer, no shame. A wrong answer reveals a genuinely interesting fact, and the run ends with "3 things you now know" — never "3 wrong". This app is built for people who feel behind. Nobody starts knowing every verse. A STREAK, WITH A NET Earn XP, level up, and grow a streak with a flame that gets hotter the longer you go. Busy day? A streak freeze quietly saves you. Your reminder learns the hour you actually play. BATTLE ANYONE, RIGHT NOW Tap quick match and we put you with whoever else is looking — no code, no queue, no rating. Or share a room code and race a friend: the same verse, you both tap ready, and a bar shows where they are. Prefer a machine? Race Rookie, Deacon or Prophet. Winner and loser earn exactly the same. AN ARCADE IN THE BACK Manna Rush: seven days in the wilderness, and on the seventh the best thing is to rest. Word Catch: a verse comes loose from the page and you tap the words back in order. Cross Word: two words that share a letter, standing as a cross — solve it and the squares turn to wood with the verse carved underneath. No high scores. Nothing ranked. PLAY FOR YOUR CHURCH Find your congregation and give it the points you earn. Giving costs you nothing — your own XP and rank stay exactly where they are. When your church's leaders set a verse of their own, it's waiting for you beside the daily one, and a series reads as a run of days you can pick up anywhere. A ROOM THAT IS YOURS An Upper Room under your player card that belongs to nobody else, painted fresh each day. Furnish it and let friends knock. Pray in it: a prayer is built for you out of four movements, so you always know what comes next, and it will read itself aloud if you'd rather listen. THE PRAYER WALL Tuck a note into the stones and the wall deals somebody else's to you. Hold the candle until the wick catches. A stranger only ever sees the category — your own words reach your church and your buddies, or nobody at all. Anonymous unless you sign it. YOUR WHOLE BIBLE, FILLING IN All 66 books, 1,189 chapters and 31,102 verses. Every one you read, study or keep lights up on your own copy, and reading a book all the way through presses its seal. Open a chapter with no signal and it still draws every verse. Read and play in the translation you prefer — eight to choose from. STUDY, WITHOUT A SCORE The Study tab is a library with a librarian in it. See your accuracy book by book, weakest first, drill what needs it, and review the verses you kept before they fade. Nothing in Study is ranked or scored against anyone. PEOPLE, NOT A SCOREBOARD Build your character at the door — figure, skin tone and hair, all free — then earn full-look skins and a companion that walks beside you. Tap somebody's face and wash their feet: twelve a day, one for each disciple, and the only thing here you can do to a person that isn't a challenge. There is no count of who likes you, and no board anywhere ranks a person against a friend. MADE THOUGHTFULLY • Play today's verse as a guest. A free account opens the rest and keeps your streak. • Sign in with Apple, Google or email to sync across devices. • Sound, music and haptics you can turn off anytime. • Delete your account and all your data in-app, anytime. • No ads. No tracking. We never sell your data. Bible text: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Scripture is always free. Start your streak today. It's one verse. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/