iBreviary: Approved by the Vatican
December 15, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Apple, Apps
iBreviary is every Roman Catholic geeks’ guide to the missal. If you are a daily church goer, iBreviary brings the complete missal and principal prayers in Spanish, French, English, Latin and Italian. The iPhone or iPod touch application is available for 0.79 cents. The app is going to be launched in Rome and has the approval of the Vatican.
Breviary has now reached its third updating. This updating brings important changes:
- available application in version Italian and English
- available readings in English, French, Spanish, Latin and in Ambrosian Rite
- possibility to pray with the Compieta of the previous day
- new dress graphics
- possibility to increase the size of the characters
- possibility of use in formed “landscape” rotating the iPhone
- page of explanation about the use of the Breviary
- fix of some bugs
The “Breviary” (”Divine Office,” or “Liturgy of the Hours”) is not the same as a “missal.”
The Liturgy of the Hours is liturgical prayer said outside of Mass by clerical, religious, and many lay people to “sanctify the day.”
A “missal” usually includes the regular prayers of the Mass and the proper prayers for each weekday and/or Sunday.
(I don’t know if the “eBreviary” includes the daily readings from the Mass.)
You should try out iMissal on iTunes. In my opinion it is a better app and gets around some of the limitations of this app (and others). It also includes daily bible verses, liturgical calendar, and many Catholic prayers.
Ibreviary is a good thing, but it need to be update every day, and problem is for priests working in Asia, we start day 5 or 6 hour earlier, and there are no morning prayer in ibreviary yet… If it can be updated day before for the next day, will be much better.