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Embark on a spiritual journey with the Orthodox Bible app, your ultimate resource for exploring and studying the Orthodox Christian faith. This app provides access to the full text of the Old and New Testament in English and Church Slavonic, along with a wide range of other Orthodox Christian texts. With daily readings, a calendar of feasts and fasts, and the ability to track important religious holidays in the Orthodox calendar, you'll stay connected to your faith every day. Whether you're new to the faith or a seasoned Orthodox Christian, this app is an essential tool for your spiritual growth. The Orthodox calendar is an integral part of the app, allowing you to foster mindfulness, discipline, and a deeper connection to the divine. Come join a community of Eastern Orthodox believers and enhance your spiritual practice with the Orthodox Bible app today.
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Orthodox Bible is a study app for the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition, built around the full Old and New Testament in English and Church Slavonic, plus a liturgical calendar and a set of readings. It's by ByteBlocks, an indie developer, and it's free.
Inside you get the complete Scripture text in two languages, a calendar of feasts and fasts on the Orthodox liturgical cycle, daily readings, and a few tools for tracking devotions. You can switch back and forth between the English and the Slavonic, which is useful if you sing or pray in Slavonic but want to study in English. There's a search function across both texts.
What I appreciate is that they did the work to include the deuterocanonical books — what Protestants call the Apocrypha — which the Orthodox accept along with us Catholics. The calendar is a real Orthodox calendar, with the major feasts of Pascha, the Great Fasts, and the cycle of saints. For a Latin-rite Catholic curious about how our Eastern brothers and sisters pray, this is a useful window.
Good fit if you're Orthodox and want a basic study Bible on your phone, or if you're Eastern Catholic and want to follow along with the Slavonic. Useful for anyone studying patristics or early Church history who keeps running into Orthodox terminology and wants the source texts close at hand.
It's not a Catholic app and doesn't claim to be. The Orthodox and Catholic Churches share most of our Scripture, our sacramental theology, and our love of the saints — but the Orthodox don't recognize the authority of the Pope, and their canon law and liturgical calendar differ from ours in details that matter. Use this for the Bible text and the calendar; for catechetical content, use a Catholic source.
Free, from ByteBlocks, LLC. Available on the App Store: Orthodox Bible. A solid resource for the Bible text itself, and a gentle introduction to the spiritual world of our Orthodox cousins.
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Introducing the Orthodox Bible app! This app is the perfect resource for those who want to study and explore the Orthodox Christian faith. With the Orthodox Bible app, you can access the full text of the Old and New Testament in both English and Church Slavonic, as well as a variety of other Orthodox Christian texts. The app also includes daily readings and a calendar of feasts and fasts, making it easy to stay connected to your faith every day. Whether you are a seasoned Orthodox Christian or just starting to learn about the faith, the Orthodox Bible app is an essential tool for your spiritual journey.
Use this app to track the dates of other religious holidays in the Orthodox calendar such as Christmas, Epiphany, Theophany, and the Dormition of the Theotokos. These holidays are based on the liturgical Orthodox calendar, which is a cycle of readings and liturgical services that are used in the Orthodox churches. The liturgical Orthodox calendar follows the same patterns and themes throughout the year, and it is closely tied to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Why follow the Orthodox calendar: - Mindfulness and introspection, humility recognizing one's own smallness in the grand scheme of God's plan and purpose. - Build discipline and routine in one's spiritual practice - Foster a deeper sense of connection to the divine - Take time to reflect on the sacrifices and teachings of Jesus Christ by observing religious holidays - Foster a sense of community and shared spiritual practice with other Eastern Orthodox believers.
The Orthodox calendar, also known as the Julian calendar, is the calendar used by many Eastern Orthodox churches around the world to determine the dates of religious holidays and observances. It is based on the Julian calendar, which was introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BC and is currently 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar. The Orthodox calendar has different dates for Easter and other religious holidays, which are based on the liturgical calendar. It is an important part of the religious tradition and culture of the Eastern Orthodox churches.
The Orthodox calendar is currently 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar, which is widely used in the Western world. This difference is due to the fact that the Orthodox churches did not adopt the Gregorian calendar, which was introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a reform of the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar has a leap year rule that eliminates the accumulated error of the Julian calendar, so the Orthodox church still use the Julian calendar.
The Orthodox calendar follows the same month names as the Julian calendar, which are: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December. However, the Orthodox calendar has different dates for Easter, which is the most important religious holiday for Christians. The Orthodox Easter is always celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox. This is different from the Western Easter, which is always celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox.
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