Revised Common Lectionary

About Revised Common Lectionary

Ratings & reviews

Ten commentaries, offline. A new Commentary button in the reading toolbar opens notes on the passage from Matthew Henry, John Wesley, John Calvin, the Church Fathers and six more, with no connection needed. Choose your default, and which ones to show, under Commentary in Settings. Hebrew and Greek Word Info now works with no connection. Each word shows its pronunciation, its part of speech, the meaning in the verse you're reading and a fuller definition, with the outline of meanings for Hebrew words. Tap ⓘ beside a translation or commentary, in the reading view or in Settings, for a sentence or two about it and a link to Wikipedia. Share several verses at once: tap Share beside the Settings gear, then tap the verses you want. Share makes a card of the whole selection, or shares it as text when it's too long for a card. Psalms that read like poetry. Psalms and other poetry now read line by line, as in a printed Bible: each line on its own, indented lines and stanza breaks as the translation sets them, Selah in italics and LORD in small capitals. Ask Siri. "Play today's readings in RCL", "Play the Gospel in RCL", "What are today's readings in RCL?", "What Sunday is it in RCL?", "Show me this week's artwork in RCL": the app now answers Siri, in all eight of its languages. The same actions are in the Shortcuts app, in Spotlight and on the Action button, and a shortcut can fetch the week's painting as an image. On iOS 18 and later, a Control Center button plays today's readings. Long-press the app icon for Today's readings, Play today's readings, This week's artwork and Calendar. And the lectionary is in Spotlight: search for a passage, a Sunday or the week's painting and open it from the result. Search by passage. Type a book, or a chapter and verse, into the day list's search to find every week or day that reads from it: "Deuteronomy", "Matthew 5", "Psalm 23:1". Common misspellings are forgiven, and Siri can ask too: "Search for Deuteronomy in RCL." Listen now picks up where you left off: the reading you stopped today or yesterday waits in the player, paused at your place. Listen now plays recorded readings of the NIV and the Hoffnung für Alle, alongside the ESV. Listen in CarPlay. The app now works in CarPlay: play the day's readings, pick another week or day from the list, or change the translation, all from the car's screen. The player shows the week's painting. Also fixed: the Hoffnung für Alle and the Bible du Semeur showed psalms shifted by a verse or two, because they number a psalm's heading as verse 1; readings from one-chapter books such as Philemon and Jude open in every translation again; sheets scroll all the way to their last line; and the app opens faster, with its emblem on the launch screen. Two windows at once. On iPad and iPhone Duo, open a second window of the app from App Exposé, the Dock or Stage Manager, or press and hold a day or a reading and choose Open in New Window (it is in the reading toolbar’s passage list too). Each window keeps its own day and passage, and both come back when you reopen the app. The NIV (1984) and the Amplified Bible are no longer available: their sources have stopped offering them. If you were reading one, you've been moved to the default translation, and you can choose another in Settings. The current NIV is still here.

App privacy

The developer, Joseph Bibby, reported these privacy practices to Apple.