iPieta (Catholic Teaching, Calendar, and Prayer)
By iVerbum
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Description
iPieta is a must-have App for all those who want to gain access to a vast library of Catholic documents, teachings, writings,prayers, and calendars. With the iPieta App, these Catholic Treasures are readily available, at home or on the go, for teaching, on the spot apologetics, and for the benefit of your own soul and those around you.
iPieta Español is a similar, but different, App available for Spanish speakers.
CONTENT:
• Bibles: Douay-Rheims, Clementine Vulgate (Catholic and public domain; note that Psalms are COMPLETE but numbered as in the Vulgate).
• Baltimore Catechisms #1-3 (original); the Cat. of Christian Doctrine, the Roman Catechism, and the Cat. of St. Thomas Aquinas
• Both the Ordinary (Novus Ordo) and Extraordinary (Tridentine) Calendars with access to the day's Gospel and Reading(s) from the Douay-Rheims & Vulgate.
• Numerous devotions including: a version of the Little Office of Our Lady, the 33-Day Total Consecration Preparation, Novena to the Holy Spirit, St. Alphonsus Stations of the Cross, and the St. Bridget 1-Year and 12-Year Prayers.
• Spiritual writings by: St. Louis Marie de Montfort, St. Teresa of Jesus, St. John of the Cross, St. Catherine of Siena, the Summa Theologica by St. Thomas Aquinas, the Imitation of Christ, Intro to Devout Life (St. Francis deSales), St. Jean-Marie Vianney, Treatise on Purgatory (St. Catherine of Genoa), Spiritual Exercises (St. Ignatius), Sinners Guide, Dolorous Passion, Haydock Biblical Commentary, Catena Aurea (St Thomas Aquinas) The Summa (except for the Supplement) is also in Latin.
• Papal Encyclicals
• Council Documents
• Fathers of the Church
• Scripture for the Holy Rosary
• Examination of Conscience
• Saint Notes (in progress)
• Bookmarks
FEATURES:
• Email current text.
• Perform Boolean AND/OR searches on the Bible, catechisms, and spiritual works including the Summa.
• English, Latin, or in both English & Latin for the Bible, many prayers, and Summa.
• The Calendar is displayed in a table and formatted to correspond to the liturgical season (e.g., Advent, Christmas, etc.) and feast day. Touch a day's entry to access the Gospel and readings (but not the responsorial psalm). “Shake” device to toggle between the Novus Ordo and Traditional Calendars.
• Customize text size, font, and color.
• Bookmarks.
See the Help Tab for instructions on Navigation, Audio, and Email.
The Calendars are complex; emails regarding problems are appreciated.
Need assistance? Contact us at: support@ipieta.com We are grateful for your suggestions and direct emails (support@ipieta.com). Please email us specific typos. Thanks.
What's New in Version 6.0
iPieta 6.0
Share current text:
Email, SMS, Twitter, Post to Facebook, Print, Copy, Add to Clipboard.
iPhone > Malta menu > Share
iPad > Malta menu > Share section
Share selected text:
1) Long-press to open text in a Edit Text View.
2) Select text and touch the "Share" menu item.
Note: Core Text is preferred text display. Text scrolls similarly to iBooks. Requires iOS 3.2 or higher.
iPhone > Settings > Core Text --> ON
iPad > Core Text is standard.
Long-press works both with Core Text and Webviews.
Remember "my last place":
Veritas entries and Bible chapters remember the last opened text.
Can open directly to your last place by touching the chevron arrow in the table cell.
Core text only.
Reading List:
The collection of these "last places" are stored as a table of bookmarks.
Core text only.
iPhone > Settings tab > Reading List
iPad > Malta menu > Reading List
Prayer List:
The collection of "last used prayers" are stored as a table of prayer bookmarks.
Core text only.
iPhone > Settings tab > Prayer List
iPad > Malta menu > Prayer List
iCloud:
Can store the Reading List and the Prayer List on the cloud.
iOS 5 only.
Settings > iCloud
More free and optional audio:
The Psalms, the Apocalypse.
Download from www.ipieta.com
Fixes:
1) Bookmark issue for Prayer Tab in iPhone when using the table's search filter.
2) Landscape menu issue for iPhone; optimized menus in general.
3) Some typos in the Douay-Rheims Bible.
4) Some iCloud issues for History and Bookmarks.
Customer Reviews
Best App Period
This is far and away the best and most spiritually beneficial App available today.
Good resource, Unorthodox interface
Very very strange UI. Why didnt the developer use the standard iOS UI? It just doesnt look like it belongs on an iphone...
- $2.99
- Category: Reference
- Updated: May 14, 2012
- Version: 6.0
- Size: 146 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: iVerbum
- © iPieta
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
