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Yes. After your first download, the app keeps about five months of Gospel readings on your device: 30 days back and 120 days ahead. Your journal, the Rosary and every downloaded reading work with no connection. (For the CPDV and Ang Biblia translations, each reading’s text downloads the first time you open it, and today’s reading is fetched ahead. Once opened, a reading stays on your device.) The app downloads new days by itself when you are online.

The first download needs an internet connection. Connect once, then pull down on the Home screen or tap “Download now”. Progress is shown at the top of the screen.

Open the Profile tab and choose a translation. The app then downloads the readings for it. Your reflections are kept, and each one stays linked to the reading it was written for.

Open Profile, switch on “Remind me to reflect”, and choose a time. Your phone asks for permission to send notifications the first time. Tapping the reminder opens today’s reading with the reflection box ready. If you declined permission, turn notifications on for the app in your phone’s settings.

It is optional. Tap how you feel on Home, or on any reading. The mood is saved on your device with that day and appears in your Journey, even on days you didn’t write a reflection. In the Journey you can filter by mood (each mood shows how many days you chose it), sort by mood, and read what you wrote when you felt anxious, peaceful and so on. Tap the same mood again to clear it.

Joyful on Monday and Saturday, Sorrowful on Tuesday and Friday, Glorious on Wednesday and Sunday, and Luminous on Thursday. You can choose any set yourself. The app does not adjust for Advent or Lent.

Only on your phone. There are no accounts and no servers that hold your notes. This also means that if you uninstall the app or lose the phone, your reflections cannot be recovered, so export them from time to time.

Open Profile and tap “Export my reflections”. Your phone’s share sheet opens with your reflections as plain text, so you can send them to yourself, save them to a notes app or print them.

Open Profile and tap “Erase all my data”. This permanently deletes every reflection, mood check-in and downloaded reading, turns off your reminder and withdraws your consent. You will see the welcome screen again. To remove a single reflection, use the delete button on it in the Journey tab.

No. See the privacy policy for the full explanation, including the three public services the app contacts to download readings.

The app looks up which Gospel is read on each date from Vatican News, then downloads the scripture text in your chosen translation from public Bible services. Only the reference and the translation’s own text are used.

Yes, by link. Every reading has a “Read in Magandang Balita Biblia” button (opens the passage on YouVersion) and a “Read in NABRE” button (opens it on Bible Gateway). These translations are protected by copyright, so their text can’t be shown inside this app without the publishers’ permission.

These translations are protected by copyright and need permission from their publishers. The app only includes translations that are free to use. More may be added if permission is obtained.

Lectionary readings in Mass use their own approved translations, which differ from the translations in the app. The reference (for example, Matthew 9:9-13) is the same, but the wording can vary.