Ad Orientem

iPhone / Education

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Ad Orientem brings the full Byzantine Horologion — the Book of Hours — to your pocket. This app guides you through the complete Daily Office as celebrated in the Byzantine Catholic Rite, in full communion with Rome.

EIGHT CANONICAL HOURS
Pray all eight offices of the daily cycle: Midnight Office, Orthros (Matins), First Hour, Third Hour, Sixth Hour, Ninth Hour, Vespers, and Compline — each with its full text, rubrics, and proper prayers for the day.

ENGLISH AND SPANISH
The entire office is available in both English and Spanish. Switch languages instantly at any time.

LIVING LITURGICAL CALENDAR
The app knows today's date, liturgical season, fasting level, and tone of the week. Every office is automatically adjusted for the day — proper troparia, kontakia, and theotokia are selected for you. The Paschal cycle is fully computed: Lent, Holy Week, Bright Week, and every Sunday of the Pentecostarion.

DIVINE LITURGY READINGS
Today's Epistle and Gospel from the Byzantine lectionary are presented in full, drawn from the Douay-Rheims (English) and Torres Amat / Biblia Platense (Spanish) translations.

CONTINUOUS SCRIPTURE READING
A daily Scripture track walks through the Bible in a structured, continuous plan — a different passage each day, in English or Spanish.

MENOLOGION (SAINTS' CALENDAR)
The saint or feast of the day is displayed throughout the app, drawn from a full Byzantine Menologion in both languages.

FEAST & FASTING GUIDE
A dedicated calendar screen shows the key feasts of the entire liturgical year — Pre-Lenten Triodion, Great Lent, Holy Week, Pascha, and the full Pentecostarion — with dates automatically calculated for the current year.

FOR BYZANTINE CATHOLICS
This app follows the Byzantine Rite as celebrated in the Eastern Catholic churches in full communion with Rome: Ruthenian, Ukrainian, Melkite, Romanian, and other Byzantine Catholic traditions.

Ad Orientem — "toward the East" — the ancient Christian posture of prayer, facing the rising sun as the symbol of the Risen Christ.

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