The picture of that sign is from a confessional in my home parish where a lot of Catholics scurry to get to confession this time of year. Here’s why. We’re called to receive Holy Communion at least once a year during the Easter Season, and since we should go to Confession to be in a […]
[Updated for 2023] The Word of God is ALWAYS with you when you have a Bible app on your mobile device. A whopping 42% of smartphone users have a Bible app installed. That’s according to a poll highlighted in this EWTN News Nightly episode. Convenience and portability don’t even scratch the surface of the many […]
9 Days for Life iOS and Android With this free app, you can join the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops‘ annual Novena For Life which begins January 18! You and thousands of Catholics across the country will gather (digitally) in prayer to end abortion. The novena–nine consecutive days of special prayers for a particular cause–begins Thursday, January 18 […]
A tremendous true story about Christian/Muslim peacemaking involving St. Francis of Assisi and the Sultan of Egypt can be seen for free on your mobile device. You can watch “The Sultan and the Saint,” a new docudrama, by downloading the free PBS app which offers a variety of its programs free and on demand on any […]
BreviaryTunes (Free) Apple iOS –This is a rescue app for the one frustrating element in praying the Divine Office which commonly trips us up before we even start–the hymn. In a group setting we exchange inquisitive looks with the prescribed hymn, wasting several page-flipping, memory-searching minutes before we settle on one commonly titled: “one we […]
