Mobile Application OrthoPrax

OrthoPrax is the ultimate modern Christian resource, a combined Church calendar, prayer book, and collection of readings, designed to help you explore your faith and enjoy the liturgical cycle of the Church. Regardless of your daily pace, OrthoPrax is there for you: to anchor you to things that matter, answer your questions, help your spiritual growth—all at your fingertips, and always with you. The diversity and wealth of information included caters to a broad spectrum of users—from novices eager to learn more about the faith, all the way to the theologically and spiritually seasoned, facing sundry modern-day challenges. The Church calendar is adjustable to follow both the Old (Julian) or New (Revised Julian) versions.

OrthoPrax is the easiest mobile way to access prescribed daily Bible readings. It is enhanced by a number of harmoniously organized features: the ecclesiastical calendar with saints’ lives (a comprehensive collection of saint feasts for each day), beautiful and moving prayers for any or a special occasion (e.g. morning, evening, pre-communion), a rich selection of high-quality icon images, timeless words of wisdom from Church Fathers and inspiration from ascetic elders. Professionally narrated and enhanced by rich multimedia content from the famed Prologue of Ohrid, it all comes to life on your mobile device, within a professionally designed and functional application centered around the user experience.

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OrthoPrax Mobile Application

Technology is so omnipresent in the 21st century that we must consider whether it has become the very reality of life itself. It is difficult and arduous to decide how best to consider it both authentically and critically. By using different apps as a tool, people believe that Orthodoxy can become ingrained in our everyday life. At the same time, we know that even the most developed mobile app cannot replace the Church. So what would be an "ideal" ecclesial mobile app? Maybe you can consider OrthoPrax.

OrthoPrax is the ultimate Christian Orthodox calendar, prayer book, and guide with 3,500+ curated icons, daily prayers, and readings to help you experience and enjoy the liturgical cycle of the Church. Developed by a group of Orthodox laymen, it contains a wealth of information on the saints, far more than any other app you have seen. In-app purchases provide access to rich textual and audio content such as The Prologue of Ohrid by St. Nikolai of Serbia. But, you might ask, what of it?

This app is enhanced by a number of harmoniously organized features. In a nutshell: calendar and lives of the saints (the most comprehensive collection of saints for each day), biblical readings, beautiful daily and occasional prayers (morning, evening, pre-communion, etc.), the most comprehensive collection of curated icons (3,500+) in high-quality images — multiple icons per saint and feast day where available — words of wisdom from Church fathers, ecumenical teachers, and inspiration from ascetical fathers. Put it simply, this is one of the most in-depth works I have seen in an app, arranging an astonishing back-end infrastructure for Orthodox content.

The real jewel here is the entire St. Nikolai's Prologue both as full text (the lives of the saints, hymns of praise, reflection, contemplation, and homily) and in audio format — brought alive with Fr. Norman Kosanovic's broadcast voice right on your device. This holistic compendium of Orthodox tradition would require dozens of large, pricy books.

The OrthoPrax App on your mobile device is a very user-friendly "thesaurus" and the easiest way to access the day's Bible readings prescribed by the typicon of the Church. The wealth of information (fasting rules, lectionary, tone of week, hagiography, troparia, etc.) is organized in a systematic way, in an easy-to-read typeface, which can be enlarged. If I'm traveling, there is no better way to carry the Church's prescribed Scripture and devotional reading, since it has all the necessary prayers and I do not have to take a library with me. The calendar is adjustable to select any day of the year. It also supports Greek, Antiochian, Russian, and OCA specifics regarding the saints and calendar. The app also lets you look up fasting guidelines for each day.

I see the developer continues to grow the app and add more and more content — readings, sayings, lives of the saints, and so on. In our time, such an app is especially important. Today's lifestyle, fueled by technology, introduces another kind of communication, mainly due to the urges of modern "digital" life. As OrthoPrax developers indicate, their focus is "on the pathway to Orthodoxy, and to help you experience it in an easily accessible manner." This is the most attractive mobile app put forward during the last decade. It generates excitement because it raises the possibility of a new approach to the digital world with a redeeming effect of great significance.

Bishop Maxim Vasiljević