A Catholic prayer practice in your pocket
Rosary, Examen, Litany, Lectio Divina, plus mood-tagged prayers for when words are hard to find. Each one structured, audio-guided, and built for a real day — not a retreat.
What the Prayer Hub is
The hardest part of prayer for most people is not the prayer itself — it is starting. Where do I begin? Which one? How long? The Prayer Hub takes the decisions away. You open it, you see what fits this moment, you press play.
Every prayer is structured the way the Church has taught for centuries — the Rosary follows the four sets of mysteries, the Examen follows St. Ignatius’s five movements, Lectio Divina moves through lectio, meditatio, oratio, and contemplatio. We don’t simplify what the saints already perfected; we just hold the structure for you while you pray it.
And when words are hard to find, mood-tagged prayers do the finding for you. Tap anxious or grateful or grieving and you get a short list of prayers from the tradition that meet that exact ache. You are not the first person to feel what you are feeling — Scripture and the saints have been there.
How it works
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Open the Prayer tab
The hub leads with the day’s recommendation — a Rosary on a feast day, the Examen at evening, Lectio Divina on Sunday morning. You can override any time.
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Pick by intention or mood
Browse by type — Rosary, Litany, Examen, Lectio. Or by feeling — anxious, grateful, seeking guidance, grieving. The catalog grows; nothing you start gets lost.
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Pray with audio
Most prayers ship with a calm narrated track. Press play and the prayer leads you — at your pace, with bells between movements. Or read it silently. Both are real prayer.
The five prayer types
Each one has a long memory in the Church.
Rosary
The Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious Mysteries — the prayer the Dominicans gave to the Church and that St. Pope John Paul II called “a compendium of the Gospel.” Bead counter, audio, and one mystery per tap.
When to use it: any day, especially Wednesdays and Saturdays for Marian devotion.
Examen
St. Ignatius of Loyola’s daily review of the soul: gratitude, light, review, repentance, resolve. The Society of Jesus has prayed it twice a day for almost five hundred years; the structure works.
When to use it: the end of the day, before sleep.
Litany
Litany of the Sacred Heart, of the Holy Name, of Loreto, of the Saints, of Humility. Each one a long Catholic chain of invocation, with the response on every line. Audio leads the call; you respond aloud or in your heart.
When to use it: on the feast day; in seasons of intercession.
Lectio Divina
Read — meditate — pray — contemplate. The monastic practice formalized by Guigo II in the 12th century, walked through one passage at a time. The app reads slowly, holds silence between steps, and prompts only when needed.
When to use it: Sunday mornings; long retreats.
Mood-tagged prayers
Anxious, grateful, grieving, seeking guidance, in temptation, after sin, thankful, hopeful, hopeless, in love, lonely, joyful, weary, before a hard conversation. Each tag opens a small set of short prayers from the tradition — Psalms, the saints, the Liturgy. When you cannot start, the tags start for you.
When to use it: any moment when you feel a thing and don’t know what to say about it.
Also try
Pray today's Examen
Eight minutes, five movements, audio narration optional. Free with the app.
Open Prayer in Sacred Scrolls