What's New
The Collect of the day is now shown in the About Today page as well as the Readings at Mass page.
App Description
Universalis is a breviary and a missal, 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.
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App Changes
- June 13, 2014 Initial release
- September 13, 2015 New version 2.14
- January 12, 2016 New version 2.15
- March 13, 2016 New version 2.33
- July 09, 2016 New version 2.37
- November 08, 2016 New version 2.38
- December 19, 2016 New version 2.43
- June 15, 2019 New version 2.92
- August 17, 2019 New version 2.94
- August 29, 2019 New version 2.98
- September 11, 2019 New version 2.99
- October 15, 2019 New version 2.100
- December 03, 2019 New version 2.105
- January 21, 2020 New version 2.106
- July 15, 2020 New version 2.110
- November 12, 2020 New version 2.119
- December 10, 2020 New version 2.121
- August 06, 2021 New version 2.132
- September 16, 2023 New version 2.160
- September 16, 2023 Price increase: $9.99 -> $11.99
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