Universalis
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Universalis is a missal and a breviary, and more besides. It gives you the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) and the Mass for every day; plus valuable additional material.
Tens of thousands of people use Universalis daily. Come and join them!
• Single purchase: the app lasts for ever. It does not need a subscription to make it work.
• No Internet needed: everything you need is already built in.
• No cleverness needed: each day, Universalis works out exactly what you need to see.
• View any date: past, present and future.
• Use your own local calendar: USA, Canada, Singapore, Ireland, and every diocese in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
• Easy to read and use: a choice of fonts; big or small type; dark or light theme.
• Latin if you want it: by itself or alongside the English.
• Help and support: use “Help > Contact Us” to send us a message, and we will reply.
EXTRA MATERIAL
• The “About Today” page tells you what saints are being celebrated today, worldwide. It includes reflections, biographies and illustrations.
• “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 this!
• “Spiritual Reading” gathers the patriotic and hagiographic readings for all the saints and feasts of the day.
• “The Rosary” has a verse of Scripture for every Hail Mary of every Mystery.
• Daily Books takes selected spiritual classics and presents them in daily instalments to focus and enrich your prayer life.
• Commentaries on the day’s Mass readings from a leading biblical scholar.
And more – liturgical events for your calendar; daily email service.
LITURGY OF THE HOURS (Divine Office)
The 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.
• 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).
READINGS AT MASS
The exact prayers and readings at Mass for each day.
• United States: the official NAB version.
• Elsewhere: Jerusalem Bible readings and Grail psalms, as used at Mass in most of the English-speaking world.
• England, Wales, and Scotland only: Jerusalem Bible until 1 December 2024, then the new English Standard Version readings.
Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
Some updates to the calendars for Singapore and the Discalced Carmelites.
