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It gives you the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) and the Mass for every day; plus valuable additional material. \n\nTens of thousands of people use Universalis daily. Come and join them!\n\n• Single purchase: the app lasts for ever. It does not need a subscription to make it work.\n• No Internet needed: everything you need is already built in.\n• No cleverness needed: each day, Universalis works out exactly what you need to see.\n• View any date: past, present and future.\n• Use your own local calendar: USA, Canada, Singapore, Ireland, and every diocese in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.\n• Easy to read and use: a choice of fonts; big or small type; dark or light theme; page-turning or scrolling.\n• Optional add-on: spoken audio read by real human beings (this needs a subscription: see below).\n• Latin if you want it: by itself or alongside the English.\n• Help and support: tips and instructions are included; or press “Contact Us” to send us a message, and we will reply.\n\nEXTRA MATERIAL\n\n• The “About Today” page tells you what saints are being celebrated today, worldwide. It includes reflections, biographies and illustrations.\n• “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!\n• “Spiritual Reading” gathers the patristic and hagiographic readings for all the saints and feasts of the day.  \n• “The Rosary” has a verse of Scripture for every Hail Mary of every Mystery. Spoken audio is included.\n• Daily Books takes selected spiritual classics and presents them in daily instalments to focus and enrich your prayer life.\n• Commentaries on the day’s Mass readings from a leading biblical scholar.\n\nAnd 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.\n\nLITURGY OF THE HOURS (Divine Office)\n\nThe 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.\n• 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).\n\nREADINGS AT MASS\n\nThe exact prayers and readings at Mass for each day.\n• England, Wales, Scotland: the official ESV version. \n• United States: the official NAB version. \n• Elsewhere: Jerusalem Bible readings and Grail psalms, as used at Mass in most of the English-speaking world.\n\nOPTIONAL ADD-ON AUDIO (in-app purchase required)\n\nJust 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.\n\n• Spoken English Liturgy of the Hours: every Hour of every day of every year. Monthly or annual subscription.\n• Spoken English Mass Readings: First and Second Reading and the Gospel. Jerusalem Bible translation only. Monthly or annual subscription.\n\n(You can listen to a sample before subscribing. Following App Store rules, subscriptions renew automatically but you can cancel auto-renewal at any time.)\n\n• Sung Latin Compline (Night Prayer): by the boys of the Schola Cantorum of the London Oratory School. Single purchase.\n\n--\n\nPrivacy policy and terms of service: universalis.com/n-ios-privacy.htm","facts":{"developer_id":284942722,"developer_url":"http://www.universalis.com/n-ios.htm","first_released":"2019-01-31T08:00:00Z","support_url":"http://universalis.com/external-ios-support.htm","privacy_url":"http://universalis.com/n-ios-privacy.htm","website_url":"http://www.universalis.com/n-ios.htm","app_version":"3.169","release_notes":"Outside the USA, we have added the Revised New Jerusalem Bible to the list of translations available for the readings in the Liturgy of the Hours. 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