The Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate created an app for the 1962 Breviarium Romanum. It is now available, FREE, for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
This may be a way for some of you to get more familiar with the older form of the Office.
There are some typos, throughout, but that doesn’t make much of a difference if you pay attention. I am sure they will be corrected along the way. We hope.
You can download texts a week in advance, and thus use it even when you don’t have a connection.
The texts in order, so you don’t have to flip back and forth between pages. The size of the text can be changed.
There is the option of a parallel English translation.
Since the Vatican’s website has only Latin and Hungarian for Summorum Pontificum, this app has Latin, Hungarian and English. So the app is one up.
You can adjust the size of the text.
Text smaller.
There is a section with additional prayers useful to priests, such as certain commonly requested blessings and prayers for before and after Mass.
And…
They accept donations. If you get it, give.
The app can be found here.
More information can be found here.
WDTPRS KUDOS!
but not everyone uses an Apple product hopefully they’ll produce a droid version soon
Latin and ….Hungarian?? Really? Is there a story behind that choice Father?
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“The application requires the iPhone 4.0 Software Update”
:-((
Thank you, I was looking for this last week.
I’ve been using the iBreviary application for iphone/ipad and androidmobile, which I really like:
http://www.ibreviary.com/m/breviario.php
Credo Bible Study for the PC is free to download and use as well. Enjoy!
http://www.azoic.com/
@Ralph: See this post.
Anyone:
Is there a similar iPhone app for the Byzantine Liturgy (particularly the Ruthenian)? I use the iPieta app daily for the Roman rite (and LOVE it!) but we’re switch hitting these days . . . and it would be SO much easier if there were one for the Eastern rite.
Whoops! Just realized this was an entry about iBreviary not iPieta! Sorry. But question still stands: is there an iPieta-type app for the iPhone that is Eastern rite?
\\if there were one for the Eastern rite\\
Naughty, naughty, q7swallows.
There’s no such thing as “the Eastern rite.” There are “Eastern riteS”.
Terrific! I’m putting it on my iPod Touch now!
Would someone please tell the worthy editors of this app that the proper name of the evening Office is Vesperae not Vespera.
Cool! Plan to download it! Thanks, Father!
q7swallows— we Byzantines are not as organzied as the Roman rite- but if we had something like this, I would buy an iPhone
I donated $20. I suggest others do what they can. It’s a crime that this is free.
As to the Hungarian, it’s because the creator is Laszlo Dobsay. He is the wonderful guy behind http://www.divinumofficium.com
I hope in the future that all the toggle options of that site will be available on this app.
I have been in contact with the developer– seeing as my iPhone is a dinosaur, running iOS 3.1.3, it is not currently supported.
He has responded very quickly, and is going to send me a beta test for the original iPhone early next week– hopefully the compatibility will be fine, and it will be available via iTunes after that?
As much as I love Universalis, it’s $25 for the app! I love the fact that this is free (and the EF), and strongly encourage donating for use of the app…
@Ralph: this app gets its data from divinumofficium.com, by Laszlo Kiss, who is Hungarian. I think the fact that the only official translation of Summorum Pontificum is into Hungarian is a coincidence.
Is there an Android based app as well? I’ve never been an I-phone user.
I will be entering this community in about two months – please pray for me.
On behalf of the developer: if you have errors to report or want to help test a version of the app that runs on 3.1.3, please use the contact form.
Great app. Unicorn?
Thank you, Fr. Basil, for the correction.
Might there be an iPieta-type app for any of the Eastern rites?
The iPad app is just the iPhone app on the larger screen but still at the iPhone size so not very useful. You have to scroll every second to read it. I’ve written to the author and asked for it to be updated and will gladly pay for it so let’s hope!