Ascension: Catholic Bible

Ascension Publishing Group

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About this app

** The #1 Catholic Bible App**

Designed to help Catholics read and understand the Bible, learn the teachings and tradition of the Catholic Church, and grow to live the life God is calling them to more fully.

Featuring the most popular Catholic Bible in America, the Great Adventure Catholic Bible, with the one-of-a-kind Bible Timeline® learning system that has helped hundreds of thousands of Catholics finally read AND understand God’s Word.

TOP FEATURES

CRUX LENTEN CHALLENGE
The Crux Lenten Challenge begins February 18 and runs daily until Easter Sunday. Participants will learn how to surrender their lives to God by submitted to four daily challenges, including 1) daily reading of Scripture, 2) a nightly Examen, 3) daily exercise, and 4) a dietary fast. Spiritual guidance from Fr. Columba Jordan's daily videos is available for subscribers in the Ascension app and will help participants through struggles, provide encouragement, and guidance to hear God's voice as they grow in Faith.

PRAY THE ROSARY
Fr. Mike Schmitz, Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, Jeff Cavins, the Sisters of Life, and Paul Rose lead recordings of the Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious mysteries of the Rosary. Pray in English or Latin, with options to chant the prayers.

DAILY MASS READINGS + REFLECTIONS
Read the official Daily Mass readings and watch reflections from trusted Catholic presenters who dive deeper to unpack the readings each day. Pray also with guided lectio divina prompts directly in the app.

THE GREAT ADVENTURE CATHOLIC BIBLE
Read the full-text of the Great Adventure Catholic Bible, listen on audio with recordings from Fr. Mike Schmitz, get answers to 1000+ most-asked questions about the Bible, and dive deeper into each book and verse with the Bible Timeline® learning system and the Bible Guide.

PREP FOR SUNDAY MASS
Watch or listen to recordings of Fr. Mike Schmitz’s homilies and watch Encountering the Word where Bible scholar Jeff Cavins provides historical, Biblical, and spiritual context to the readings at Sunday Mass.

“IN A YEAR” PODCASTS
Get the best experience of the Bible in a Year, Catechism in a Year, and Rosary in a Year podcasts, with additional content, prayer aides, transcripts, answered questions, linked references and Bible verses, and more!

STUDY PLANS
Browse from 80+ study plans taught by leading Catholic presenters, including Fr. Mike Schmitz, Jeff Cavins, Dr. Edward Sri, Sarah Christmeyer, Jackie Francois Angel, and many others. Study plans are a companion to help you understand the Bible better, learn more about Catholic teaching, and strengthen you to more fully live the life God is calling you to.

SAINT OF THE DAY
Read daily reflections on the lives of the saints, following the memorials and feast days on the liturgical calendar.

CATHOLIC PRAYERS
Discover novenas, litanies, guided lectio divina and visio divina experiences, and more!

SUBSCRIPTION PRICING AND TERMS
All users can access the full text of the Bible, the full text of the Catechism, Daily Mass readings and reflections of the day, the full Rosary with all recorded voices, and all Ascension podcasts in the app for free.

To access all content and programs in the Ascension App, Ascension offers two auto-renewing subscription options:

$8.99 per month
$59.99 per year

(Please note these prices are for users in the USA)

Your Ascension subscription will renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can go to your Apple account settings to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Your account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. Please contact us at [e-mail] if you have any issues or questions.

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Ratings and reviews

It started out great and over the last month has really declined. I started using this app on a regular basis at the beginning of the year and have been following the catechism in a year podcast as well as the rosary in a year podcast. In the past month or so the format has changed, its hard to find the podcasts, finding where you left off and getting to the podcast episode menu is glitchy. There is no longer a % status for progress. I wanted to do the Bible in the year in January but probably

The content is glorious. However, the app is so poorly optimized that it's hard to explore without getting frustrated. Like an old Excel file that you keep jamming information into until it slows to a crawl. On that note: Not a fan of the recent UI update and removing podcasts as a tab. Probably had too much engagement and they wanted to redirect people to the other (paid) content, which would be fine if it didn't take so long to load any other content.

excellent resource. rich. I have very high speed internet and a new phone, speed is 2 gbps download and upload. sadly the app pauses/freezes constantly when streaming, is slow to upload. my guess is that Ascension needs to invest in more servers or bandwidth to support content. Don't get me wrong, the content is incredible, the formay, lay out incredible. my only frustration is the constant pauses, freezing etc. I bought a year subscription and will renew because the content is so wonderful

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements