Catena Bible and Commentaries

Catena

About this app

The Bible with 10,000's of commentaries at your fingertips, to help you understand any verse! Use Catena as your daily Bible reader, and get the most out of your time reading the Bible!

WHY USE CATENA?
Have you ever read a verse and weren't sure what it meant?
The Bible was written over 2000 years ago, and with Catena you can read commentaries from the early church fathers!

Catena (from Latin meaning “a chain”): brings the faith that was taught by Christ, preached by the Apostles and kept by the fathers. Contains homilies of the early church fathers whose teachings have enlightened our minds and our hearts. Commentaries from the original Church perspective speaks to the deeper experience in the roots of the authentic faith.

If you are looking for authoritative guidance in interpreting Scripture, understanding the early church, and learning how to apply the Word of God to your spiritual life, Catena will be a treasured resource for you

God Bless!

Ratings and reviews

This app is a great resource. The only reason I am not giving it five stars is that there is a flickering line that occurs on the left side of the screen whenever you open the menu to select a book. Once you open that menu, the line doesn't go away. I had the same issue on my old phone too (both phones are androids). Unfortunately, it is preventing me from spending longer sessions in the app. If this gets fixed I would gladly give this app five stars.

Excellent application for easy access to verses. I would be nice though, if verses could be highlighted, with the options of color highlights, copy, save to folder, etc. Word search? Also, if the app could expand it's services to incorporate different languages, such as Spanish, Greek, Amharic, Arabic, etc. it has the potential to become the most popular Bible app out there!

I've been looking for exactly this for a long time. I particularly like that you can create a study/reading plan. There are two already preset: The whole Bible in 365 days, and the 4 gospels in 4 months. That alone makes this worth having. Additionally, you can create your own. The commentaries are not intrusive. You choose what you want to read by clicking an in-app hyperlink. Highly recommend as a hearing and reference tool.

What’s new

Fixes chapters not appearing when opening a book.

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