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James924 said:
The Didache is another good one by appsessions. Its an ancient document of Christian teachings from around 70AD. ITs a great tool for arguing with fundamentalists because its the earliest Church document (probably) in existance and it sounds pleasantly Catholic.

It is indeed odd how a search for “rosary” will bring up things like “Naughty Nurses” and “Swimsuit Babes.”

I agree. Lots of great Catholic titles on Amazon kindle and it takes about 10 seconds to download them. You don’t even need 3G to do it. I downloaded a few in backwoods tennessee a few weeks ago with an edge connection. Got plenty of titles from Scott Hahn. And old classics like saint’s writings are usually a matter of a buck or two.

If you really want a catholic library in your pocket here are two good ideas:
Download an app called Readle docs (there are other apps that do the same thing) and do a google seach for Catholic e-books. There are hundreds of classic writings of the saints and church fathers and chesterton, etc, etc. Download them, put them on your document application (ReadleDocs, on second thought, is old. There might be a better one now.) and “boom!” you’ve got a Catholic library.

The second idea is to get an app called “instapaper.” With this, you can save any webpage on your iphone via safari and it will be converted in the app to a readable, scrollable, font-adjustable text document similar in format to kindle.
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Thanks for the hints. I actually downloaded The Didache just the other day. Amazing how a such an “old” book is so up to date, even condemning abortion.

I’ve been saving web pages on my Notes app, but “instapaper” sounds much better. Thanks!

Mary
 
Hi,

I have this application of mine called Rosary Amen, approved by Apple and available on iTunes.

itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=323625817&mt=8

You can also visit its page at
rosaryamen.com

It is a muti-language (english, spanish, french, italian, latin and portuguese) rosary for iPhone and iPod Touch. Rosary Amen has prayers texts in all these languages and audio in english, portuguese and latin.

It is a good way to have your rosary on the go and also to motivate kids praying the rosary.

I am posting here two promo codes for free copies of Rosary Amen.

here they are:

6FHW4Y4TYANY
AE7YLFTTLEPE

By Apple imposition, these codes are valid just for US-based itunes accounts.
I hope you guys like.
 
Awwwww. Really wish l could listen to it. l live in the UK and can’t access it.
 
Have only bought iPhone app that was not free and that was iBreviary. All other apps are free or I absolutely need them. This is not one of them at 1.99
 
Thank you for you comment peregrinus_WA, trashing 4 months of hard job, including the help of of some Poor Clares Sisters –*friends of us – in two countries.

Price is something that is impossible to adjust. For some cheap people even free is expensive. The same people pay $600 for an iPhone and never complain.

If you at least had paid attention to what I have posted, before trashing, you would see that I have posted two codes for free copies of it. So, you could have a free copy of it and would be happy right now.

Peace.

👍
 
Hey Guys,
I am very because I have found a Catholic iPhone Application called Rosary Amen (rosaryamen.com). There is a demo video on this site. Lucy 👍
 
Don’t know why I didn’t know about this until recently, but I just downloaded this really interesting application for iPhone/iPod Touch from iTunes. It really is a treasure trove of Catholic devotion. Here’s what iPieta gives you:
  • the entire Bible (Douay-Rheims and Latin Vulgate)
  • both the OF and EF liturgical calendars, dating up to at least 2050
  • scores of prayers, chaplets, novenas and litanies
  • several catechisms, including the 3 Baltimore Catechisms and Trent
  • the Summa Theologica
  • lives of the saints (incomplete but a work in progress)
  • a number of classic spiritual writings including Introduction to the Devout Life, Imitation of Christ, True Devotion to Mary and works by St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. Jean-Marie Vianney and more
For the Scripture and certain prayers you can view in either English or Latin, or even have English and Latin together on the same screen. Some of the prayers can also be heard in audio; an optional audio download file can be obtained from their website ipieta.com/

It’s a little over 39 MB, but it’s all there, there’s no need to Wi Fi.

And you get all this for $2.99. Terrific stuff.
 
nlh1302 said:
Don’t know why I didn’t know about this until recently, but I just downloaded this really interesting application for iPhone/iPod Touch from iTunes. It really is a treasure trove of Catholic devotion. Here’s what iPieta gives you:
  • the entire Bible (Douay-Rheims and Latin Vulgate)
  • both the OF and EF liturgical calendars, dating up to at least 2050
  • scores of prayers, chaplets, novenas and litanies
  • several catechisms, including the 3 Baltimore Catechisms and Trent
  • the Summa Theologica
  • lives of the saints (incomplete but a work in progress)
  • a number of classic spiritual writings including Introduction to the Devout Life, Imitation of Christ, True Devotion to Mary and works by St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, St. Jean-Marie Vianney and more
For the Scripture and certain prayers you can view in either English or Latin, or even have English and Latin together on the same screen. Some of the prayers can also be heard in audio; an optional audio download file can be obtained from their website ipieta.com/

It’s a little over 39 MB, but it’s all there, there’s no need to Wi Fi.

And you get all this for $2.99. Terrific stuff.
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This app is absolutely fantastic! They are trying to get rights to add both the Catechism and the Compendium as well. All for $2.99. Any Catholic who has an iPhone or an Ipod touch should have this app. I love the fact too that you can change fonts and colors making it very easy to read.

The makers of this App deserve some sort of award from the Church. It is magnificent, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Mary
 
I was considering the Universalis app for the iPhone and came across the following thread:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=93785

It says that:
*The Universalis website CANNOT be used to pray the Divine Office – they do not use an approved translation. *

The thread is a few years old. Can anyone tell me if this is still the case? Is the current Universalis app on the iPhone approved by the church?

-Kind regards.
 
Corruich said:
I was considering the Universalis app for the iPhone and came across the following thread:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=93785

It says that:
*The Universalis website CANNOT be used to pray the Divine Office – they do not use an approved translation. *

The thread is a few years old. Can anyone tell me if this is still the case? Is the current Universalis app on the iPhone approved by the church?

-Kind regards.
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This is the first time I’ve heard of this. The site is Catholic, not Anglican. Anglicans do not venerate Therese of Lizieu or the Marian apparitions.
Check out the first two questions and associated links on there FAQ page here:
universalis.com/faq.htm#affiliation
if that’s a bad link try this one:
universalis.com/faq.htm

As to the translation being used and whether it’s approved, I’ll look into it more after work.
 
On second thought, read the whole FAQ. They address everythig, acknowledging that it doesn’t use and officially approved translation. It can be prayed as a personal devotion all you want but it isn’t liturgical, so you’re not praying with the body of Christ.
It does not fullfil any Lit o’ Hrs obligation you may have 😦

there are other good apps though, divine office, breviary, imissal. Check them out.
 
James924-

Thank you very much for your reply with the links to the FAQ. I felt sort of silly for not actually checking their website myself!

For future reference for others with the same questions, here are the questions/answers from the Universalis FAQ. (Note that they may change to another version in the future, so check their website for the latest information.)

I have an obligation to recite the Office. Can I use your site?
*We are happy for you to do this. However, you should bear in mind that our versions of the texts are not all officially approved translations, and that some parts of the Liturgy (eg. hymns and responsories) are not yet present on the site.

On the other hand, if you are in a situation where you don’t have your breviary with you, using Universalis is certainly far, far better than doing nothing at all.*

Is this site approved by the Catholic Church?
Everyone who has heard of the project has been enthusiastic and supportive, from parish priests and religious to senior figures in the Church. We can see from our sales records that many priests and bishops have bought the downloadable versions. However, there is a limited list of official translations, and the one we use is not one of those: accordingly, the site cannot receive official approval. We believe that this is unfortunate, but we fully understand the reasons for this policy and support its application.

-Kind Regards

Corruich
 
envchemist said:
iPieta is great. I’m a convert and I used to joke that all you cradle Catholics are born with the prayer book that the rest of us have memorize. BY GOLLY I have all the prayers- novenas - consecrations and so on. PLUS iPieta comes with the Baltimore catechism, the saints, the imitiation of Christ, The Louis de Monfort total consecration and lot more. Look under the 3 dots that say more and under Veritas. The only thing I don’t like about it is the version of the Bible (yes it has that too) it uses. It calls Noah Noe and Shem Sem. Never seen those spellings. That’s why I did the search and found this thread–was to find a better version of the Bible. But for $4.99 WOW.
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In the Settings for iPieta, you can select the display of Bible names in either the common or traditional spellings (the style that you seen in the Douay Rheims).

There was a recent update in their app that in their Veritas section there are included council documents from Nicea to Vatican II, as well as a selection of papal documents from Pius VI to Benedict XVI.

And I just discovered another real gem on iTunes, and a must have for those who have a serious interest in Gregorian chant. There is an app called Liber Pro, which brings the entire (over 2,300 pages) 1961 Liber Usalis to your iPhone/iPod. It has a calendar with links to the propers of the day in the 1961 calendar, and a table of contents with links to the various Masses, rubrics etc. You can scroll through the pages by touch and also with Back and Forward buttons, and you can bookmark your favourites. It’s pricey as apps go, $14.99, but compared to buying the book itself, it really is a bargain.
 
Sort of looking for Catholic apps for the Iphone and stumbled on this forum. I really wanted to buy Universalis but couldn’t justify the price tag. It’s true that the Divine Office in print would cost as much, but not everyone wanted the whole book, personally, I am after the mass readings. iBreviary requires an online connection and I do not have an unlimited plan (I don’t live in the US), so settled for iMissal instead. A missed sale for Universalis. I really believe they could have grossed a lot more with a lower price. Maybe they wanted their app’s price to be in line with their other platforms (Windows Mobile, Palm), since an iPhone purchase of their app enables you the right to use the WinMo or Palm version for free (trg code for those platforms included?) but still people will buy a $0.99 app up to maybe $4.99 without much thought, but $24.99? I really have to use it extensively to justify the purchase…

On another front, I always make it a habit on checking on other apps developed by the maker of an app. I find it easier to part with my cash if the developer is really Christian, some developers have an app for every religion imaginable, so the integrity of the content become suspect. One even have develop apps that are contrary to Christian beliefs (like images of scantily clad women apps).

Greetings from the Philippines,

techdude/William
 
I like ipieta because you have the option of showing the NO calendar or the 1962 TLM calendar. It’s the only app I’ve been able to find with the traditional calendar.

Patron Saints is great.

Holy Rosary deluxe by eb solutions is my favorite rosary app.
 
Catholic_Kenpo said:
iPhone app of the week: i can has cheezburger. Seriously. It’s awesome.

-CK
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Seriously, I was ready to ditch my iPhone at first. Now you couldn’t pry it out of my cold, stiff fingers.

It has everything! A timer! Innerwebs! Games! Scientific calculator! Japanese language study! Email! Chat! Woot.
 
Techdude-

That is a great suggestion. I had not even thought of checking the other apps sold by the developer to make sure they are consistent.

Thanks for that.
 
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