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Divine Office - audio daily prayer

The Divine Office App is an opportunity for you to participate in the recitation of the Liturgy of the Hours, an ancient and meditative collection of psalms, hymns and scripture that represent the public prayer of the Christian community.

This App is an audio version of the official set of daily prayers from the Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Catholic Church (Breviary). It wirelessly downloads several days of prayers at a time, without the need for iTunes synchronization or access to a computer.

If you are unable to pray in community, but love the contentment of praying with others, an added feature of The Divine Office App lets you view locations where other Christians around the world are simultaneously praying with you.

For clergy required to pray the Liturgy of the Hours daily, or laity who recite the daily prayers to maintain their intimate connection with God, The Divine Office App is designed to make praying more convenient, enjoyable, and simple enough for anyone to use. It automatically downloads the appropriate prayers for each hour, every day of the year, including Solemnities and many feast days.

The Divine Office App uses the current four-volume Liturgy of the Hours with a bias towards the USA calendar. This version is the official prayer book of the Catholic Church, however, it is suitable for those following Eastern Orthodox and Anglican traditions.

When St. Paul advises us in 1 Thessalonians 5:17 to “pray without ceasing,” he intends more than simply bowing our heads and speaking to God on a regular basis. He means for us to adopt an ongoing attitude of prayer that is a way of life and a constant intercession for the salvation of all mankind.

As the mystical body of Christ prays in unison, it fulfills what Paul advises as Christian conduct, that believers at once pray for the good of themselves, their neighbors, and the world. In this way, prayers become liturgy, a way to fulfill our divine calling and a practical approach for addressing the suffering of the world.

The Divine Office is also available free from our website at www.DivineOffice.org or our podcast called Divine Office. Thank you for supporting our ministry by your purchase. Look for our other apps:

• Morning Prayer (Lauds) – audio Liturgy of the Hours
• Evening Prayer (Vespers) – audio Liturgy of the Hours
• Night Prayer (Compline) - audio Liturgy of the Hours
• Prayers - a reference of standard Catholic prayers in several languages.

What's new

Added view of the Earth depicting other people who are using their iPhone or iPod Touch at this moment in time. These are a few of the people who are praying with you. There are also many (about 1000) that use only the free podcast from iTunes and those that turned off the location feature. They are praying with you, but we don't display when or where. Note that we have intentionally made the location feature very low in accuracy (accurate within 50 miles) and it only works in North America and a few countries around the world. Bottom line, there are many people praying with you, but this depiction might only show 1 in 100 of who you are actually praying with while using this app.

Added refresh content feature in settings view.

Added factory reset feature in settings view.

Added big/small font size segment control in settings view.

Modified to maintain compatibility with version 3.0 of the OS for iPhone and iPod Touch.

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Last changed:

Sep 11, 2009

Category:

Lifestyle

Developer:

Surgeworks, Inc.

Version:

1.5

Average Rating:

4.00 (178)

Size:

1.6 MB

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