Catholic Calendar: Universalis

Universalis Publishing

In-app purchases

About this app

Feasts and celebrations according to the General Calendar and the local calendars of the UK, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, and others. Features "About Today" pages giving more information about the saint of the day.

You get a free one-month preview of the Universalis pages, which contain the Readings at Mass (NAB translation for the USA, the new ESV for Great Britain, Jerusalem Bible in the rest of the world), the Mass Today (which combines the daily Mass readings with the Order of Mass) and the Liturgy of the Hours: Morning Prayer, the three daytime hours, Evening Prayer, Night Prayer, and the Office of Readings (scripture readings – United States: RSV. Elsewhere: Jerusalem Bible, with RSV as an optional add-on).

If you like what you see in the one-month preview, you can take out a monthly subscription to it or you can buy the Universalis app instead.

You can purchase or subscribe to audio for all the Hours (spoken in English), the Gospel of the day (Jerusalem Bible, spoken in English), or the daytime Hours (Terce, Sext, None) spoken in Latin.

This app is complete in itself. It needs no Internet connection and no downloads.

Ratings and reviews

Good content, but it needs some technical clean-up. I have often found either the upper half of lower half of a line when obviously a piece has been cut at the end of a page to continue to the next page. It was not done cleanly, nor was it checked to see that the thought is readable. It is frustrating. If this clean-up is done, I would gladly change my review to five stars.

A wonderful app, I can only imagine the work that went into setting it up. It works so smoothly and is a wonderful prayer aid on the go.

an excellent app if you want to follow the text during Mass. lots of other useful resources included too. I've happily used this for over 13 years.

What’s new

The Rosary page now contains the Litany of Loreto for you to read or listen to. You can select it by pressing the button to the right of the big heading at the top of the Rosary page.