![]() ![]() ![]() The new Android App is an audio and text version of the official set of daily prayers from the Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Catholic Church (Breviary). The Divine Office app will automatically update its content while you are running it with an Internet connection. This app is an opportunity for you to participate in the recitation of the Liturgy of the Hours: the public prayer of the Christian community. It is my constant companion.The long awaited Android version of the Divine Office award-winning mobile app is now available for a one-time purchase price of 14.99 USD on the Google Android Market and on the Amazon Android Appstore. I recommend this app to friends all the time, especially to those who’d like to pray the Office but feel intimidated by the size of the printed version and getting the ribbons placed properly. I don’t use the audio version much but the few times I’ve traveled, it is so comforting to not have to skip the Office in order to keep my hands on the steering wheel and my eyes in the road. It is so calming of any worries to pull out my phone, open the app, and be able to connect with Our Lord at those times I need Him most. Many times I’ve been sitting in a doctor’s waiting room at the time of Mid Morning prayer. It is such a blessing to have the Divine Office in my pocket. ![]() ![]() Now I don’t need to turn a lamp on as I use to when I used the Office printed volumes. Having the Divine Office on my phone is absolutely the best thing ever! The sense of community is so wonderful as I see how many others are praying at the same time as myself. When I discovered this app, all of my concerns of ribbon placement were gone. I have prayed the Divine Office for many years. Kathleen Jones (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1997), 22-24. Charles Lwanga and Companions, June 3, 2013. Paul VI, in “Letter of his Holiness John Paul II to Cardinal James Knox,” January 17, 1979, Catholic News Agency, St. John Paul II, Apostolic Blessing during Pastoral Journey to Uganda, February 7, 1993. Charles Lwanga is the patron saint of African youth. Charles and his companions were beatified in 1920 and canonized in 1964. Those martyred by Mwanga included both Catholics and other Christians. One of their executioners reported that the young men prayed softly as they died. When they said they intended to remain Christians, they were burned to death. One morning the king assembled the pages and told those who were Christians to stand apart. Charles Lwanga, also a Catholic, was appointed to succeed him. When Joseph Mkasa, the master of the pages and a Catholic catechist, tried to protect the younger pages from the rages and sexual advances of the king, Joseph was beheaded. He became mentally unstable and increasingly hostile to Christians. Mwanga was young and his country was under many outside pressures. Charles Lwanga was a page in the royal court of Mwanga, the king of the Baganda in the south of what is now Uganda. Charles Lwanga and Companions, the martyrs of Uganda. June 3 Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs ![]()
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