Lectio – The Church Fathers

Lectio

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About this app

Lectio is a reading app in French. It holds 545 Christian works by 45 authors, from the 1st to the 20th century: Church Fathers, theologians, mystics, spiritual masters and popes, all in French translation. You can read Saint Augustine, Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Teresa of Ávila, Saint Francis de Sales or The Imitation of Christ.

Each day, you open Lectio on the Gospel of the day, then on what the Fathers say about it in the Catena Aurea of Saint Thomas Aquinas, for daily lectio divina. You can read the whole Bible (Crampon translation, 1923) without a subscription and without limits. Eight guided plans of 7 days and The Imitation of Christ in 115 days are open to everyone.

An account lets you read up to 15 chapters every 30 days; without an account, up to 3. With the subscription, you also get unlimited reading, "Demander" (you ask a question, an AI answers from Lectio's texts and cites its sources), the Fathers' passages on Bible verses, offline reading, unlimited notes and highlights, ambient sounds, and study tools on a computer at app.lectioapp.com. You try the subscription for 14 days before paying.

Priests, deacons, religious and seminarians get full access for life: ask for it at lectioapp.com/clerge.

Lectio shows no ads. Jeremy builds it alone and reads your messages at [e-mail]. The app and all its texts are in French.

What’s new

Following a reading plan? Its book no longer takes a spot in "Reprendre", and reading the plan's daily chapter no longer moves your bookmark. Outside France, the daily readings and the daily reminder follow your local time. Works saved for offline reading show "Téléchargée", and the Help page explains how. On iPhone, signing in with Google now shows "Lectio".