App Detail » Coptic Reader

Published by: Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate D

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Price: FREE!
Current Version: 2.98
Released: June 13, 2013

What's New

- BUG FIX: Corrected calculation of the months of Koiahk when the Nativity lands on a Sunday on a leap year
- Added Synaxarion entry for Pope Shenouda III on Paremhotep 8
- Added Liturgy of the Word for weddings under the Crowning Menu
- Added Watos Exposition for the Feast of the Pentecost after Liturgy Gospel Reading
- Changed 'indestructible' to 'indescribable' in Another Prayer of Reconciliation to the Son in St. Basil Liturgy
- Changed 'was' to 'were' in various prayers
- Added St. Mikhail El-Behirey
- Added Koiahk Praise for the Holy Trinity on The Third Canticle of Midnight Praises
- Change to Friday Theotokia: "He took our flesh" instead of "He took our body"
- In crowning prayer, changed 'increase your obedience' to 'submit'
- Changed "manger" to "cave" in E-Parthenos
- Psali Adam for 2nd Hoos change - He made man: in His image: and His likeness: that He may bless Him.
- Transition from Standard to Great Fast rites occurs only at Gospel Response of the Liturgy of the Sunday before the Great Fast (not on Saturday or during Vespers)
- Updated Old English words in the Altar Consecration Prayer
- Tenen to appear during Koiahk Midnight Praises and Bright Saturday only
- Removed some seasonal expositions from Midnight Praises
- Corrected psalies and expositions for the Theophany Paramoun
- Corrected expositions for the Nativity and Theophany
- Corrected English translation in Galatians 4:14 in the Katameros
- Pray for the salvation of men and the safety (instead of salvation) of animals.
- Added "Glory be to Our God" congregation response before the prophecies in Matins for Great Fast weekday liturgies
- Added Litany of the Gospel before each Gospel reading in the Procession of the Cross for the Feast of the Cross and Hosanna Sunday
- Moved the deacon response to the thanksgiving prayer in the presence of a bishop into a collapsed section for clarity
- Corrected the rites for the Reception of a New Priest
- Added Arabic for Synaxarion for St. Narcissus
- Miscellaneous Synaxarion updates
- Minor changes to Koiahk Saturday Theotokia
- Miscellaneous Arabic corrections
- Miscellaneous spelling and grammar corrections

App Description

Coptic Reader is a mobile application that contains the liturgical text, rites, psalmodies, hymns, melodies, services, and sacraments of the Coptic Orthodox Church. See below for a full list of included content. Coptic Reader is not simply a text reader but rather it dynamically creates each document/service according to the rites of the current day, or selected day/feast. Coptic Reader builds each document on the fly with all appropriate hymns, rites and instructions to take the guess work out of the order of a church service.

Coptic Reader can generate documents in a combination of English, Arabic, and Coptic and supports both English and Arabic as the application interface language. Coptic Reader is fully customizable and allows you to show/hide different liturgical roles (i.e., Priest, Deacon, and Congregation), inaudible prayers, rubrics/comments, and languages.

You may choose between different graphical themes as well as change the document text size. A presentation mode is also supported that allows you to project the content in your church for a complete experience. The application also allows you to control which saint or archangel commemorations will be shown in doxologies, hymns, responses, and other prayers for your church's intercessors.

Content List:
- Complete Bible including Coptic New Testament and Deuterocanonical books
- Book of Hours (Agpeya)
- Holy Psalmody including Midnight Praises, Vesper Praises, Morning Praises (Standard, Koiahk, Nativity, Theophany, Great Fast, Pentecostal, including all festal psalies)
- Antiphonary (Difnar)
- Divine Liturgies with integrated Service of the Deacons (St. Basil, St.Gregory, and St. Cyril, as well as Vespers and Matins service)
- Katameros (Sundays, Weekdays, Great Fast, Pentecostal, and feasts)
- Synaxarion
- Distribution Melodies
- Unction of the Sick
- Baptism Prayers
- Crowning and Engagement Prayers
- Pascha Prayers
- Prostration Prayers
- Liturgy of the Waters (Lakkan)
- Veneration
- Funerals (Men, Women, Boys, Girls, Monks, Memorials, and Prayer at the Tomb)
- Consecrations (Church, Vessels, Censers, Icons, Baptistery, Ordinations, Reception of a New Priest, and Home Blessing)

For more information about Coptic Reader, visit: http://suscopts.org/wiki/Coptic_Reader

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