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

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!

Really great app, however, there are some bugs and features i think would make it even better. I wish you could scroll without accidentally highlighting the text as you scroll, a task which seems somewhat difficult on my phone, being able to highlight more than one verse would also be nice, app also just sometimes seems slow and unresponsive, but usually this is not the case.

I was ecstatic at finding this app, but now that I've used it for a while, it seems to be very incomplete, i.e. it doesn't have much ancient commentary. Huge parts of Scripture have nothing, and in many cases, it's hard to believe that the Fathers wrote nothing. It's a great concept(!!), so I hope the developers will keep adding content toward the app's eventual completion.

What’s new

Fixes chapters not appearing when opening a book.

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