Daily Litany of Saints

Daily Litany of Saints is a simple prayer app built around the Church's calendar. Each day it brings you the saints and blesseds the Church honors, so you can ask their intercession on their feast days.

The Church has canonized or beatified thousands of holy men, women, and even children, and every one of them sits somewhere on the liturgical calendar. The app pulls up the ones being commemorated that day and gives you a litany to pray, asking them to intercede for you before the Lord. You open it, you see who the day belongs to, and you pray.

What I appreciate is the way it ties your prayer to the Church's year instead of your own mood. Some mornings you do not know who to turn to. This hands you the saints of the day and lets you lean on their company, which is a steadying thing to do before the rest of the day starts.

Good for daily prayer, for anyone trying to grow a devotion to the saints, and for families who want to teach children that the saints are real friends to ask for help. It also suits people who simply like praying a litany.

It is a focused devotional, not a full prayer book or a calendar app with the day's Mass readings. It does one thing. There are no store ratings yet, so you are early to it. The content is plainly Catholic, rooted in the Church's understanding of the communion of saints.

Free, made by Dawn Beutner. Available on the App Store: Daily Litany of Saints. If you want a small daily way to keep company with the saints, this does it well.