Daily Rule of St. Benedict

Description

Daily Rule keeps the Rule of St. Benedict at the pace it was written for: a short portion each day, three times through the year, in the divisions Benedictine houses have used for centuries. It is a reading system rather than a copy of a book. The app tracks where you are in a 122-portion cycle, decides what today's reading is, sets it in type made for sustained reading, and stays out of the way. THE DAILY READING • The traditional thrice-yearly cycle, leap years included: 1 January to 1 May, 2 May to 31 August, 1 September to 31 December. • Follow the calendar, or read in sequence, where the next portion waits until you have finished the one before it. • The app remembers where you stopped, and will give you one quiet daily reminder that goes silent once you have read. THE TEXTS • The complete Rule in English, in Leonard J. Doyle's 1948 translation, and in the original Latin. Read either alone, or both together. • Dom Paul Delatte's Benedictine commentary, in Dom Justin McCann's translation, matched to each day's portion and a toggle away. • Verse numbers and scripture references, each of which can be turned off. • Transcribed from the 1921 printing and collated against it page by page. Corrections are listed in the app under Notes on this edition. THE TYPOGRAPHY • Set like a printed book: drop caps, small capitals, old-style figures, and a paper-and-ink palette in light and dark. • Three typefaces, including OpenDyslexic, and your own text size, independent of the system setting. • Page-turning or scrolling, whichever suits you. • A tap gives distraction-free full screen. The text never shifts or reflows under you. YOURS ALONE • No accounts, no advertising, no analytics, no tracking. • No network access of any kind. The entire text lives on your device and works with no connection at all, in a monastery or on a plane. For oblates, religious, and anyone drawn to Benedictine spirituality; a companion for lectio divina and for daily prayer.

A scripture reference tucked inside a longer note now reads as quiet apparatus like every other citation, and hides with them when you turn citations off. Two English words are no longer italic, and the last reference given in Roman numerals is modernized.

Informations

Vendeur

James Cross

Catégorie

Reference

Version

0.2.9

Nécessite

iOS 15.0+

Taille

24.4 MB

Classification par âge

4+