Fatima Prayers

Fatima Prayers is a small devotional app built around the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima in 1917. It gathers the prayers tied to those events in one place so you can pray them on your phone.

The core of the app is the set of prayers the angel and Our Lady taught the three shepherd children, Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta. You get the Pardon Prayer, the Angel's Prayer, the prayer of reparation, and the decade prayer that many of us add after each mystery of the Rosary. The text is laid out plainly, one prayer at a time, so you can read and pray without a lot of clutter on the screen.

What I appreciate is that it keeps the focus narrow. This is not a do-everything app. It is the Fatima prayers and the story behind them, and that is enough. If you have a devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, or you are trying to take the First Saturdays seriously, having these prayers in your pocket removes one small excuse to skip them.

It works well for the daily moments when you have a minute and want to pray with purpose. Waiting in a parking lot, sitting before Mass, the end of a long day. It also suits a family that wants to teach children the Fatima prayers, since the prayers are short and the words are right there.

What it is not is a full Rosary app or a catechism on the apparitions. It does not walk you through all twenty mysteries, and it does not go deep on the theology or the Church's approval of the events. The design is simple and a little dated. None of that gets in the way of praying, but set your expectations for a focused devotional tool, not a polished suite.

Fatima Prayers is free, from Pixolini, Inc. You can find it on the App Store through Fatima Prayers by Pixolini, Inc. If Fatima is part of your prayer life, it is a quiet, useful thing to have on your phone.