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.

I have used a paid version of Universalis since it was a Palm app in 2005 and I highly recommend it (once you purchase, you never have to pay again, even for another version). With this app, it's so easy to have the full texts of the Divine Office -- all the Psalms, responsorials and readings -- available where ever you may be. It is fully adaptable to your local calendar.

This app is bursting with prayer. As well as the Mass readings for every day, which is really useful for me when I am traveling, there are also reflections, spiritual readings, the Divine Office of the church and even the Rosary. It is wonderful to have.

What’s new

Some improvements in layout.