Life of Mary Lite: Catholic Meditations for Every Day in a Month

Life of Mary Lite is a set of short daily meditations on the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is the free, smaller version of a fuller app, meant to give you a taste of the whole.

The meditations are built for a month — the traditional Marian months of May and October — with a reflection for each day, though you can pray them any time of year. Each one takes a moment from Mary's life as Scripture and tradition hand it down, and breaks it into a few practical points to guide your thinking and prayer. You read, you sit with it, you pray.

I like the shape of it. A short daily meditation is far easier to keep up than a long one, and walking through Mary's life a day at a time over a month gives the devotion a real arc instead of being scattered. Tying the reflection to a few clear points keeps it from drifting into vague feeling, which is a trap Marian material can fall into.

It is a good fit for the month of May or October when you want a simple daily Marian devotion, or for anyone who wants to grow closer to Our Lady in small, steady steps. It works well as the few quiet minutes at the start or end of a day.

Remember this is the "Lite" version, so it is a sample — you get part of the content, and the full set is a separate paid app. It is from an independent developer, and the presentation is plain. If you take to it, you will probably want the complete version before long.

It is free as a Lite edition, made by Leonard Mamangkey. You can find it on the App Store: Life of Mary Lite. As an easy way to begin a daily Marian devotion, it is worth a try.