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Whether you're a busy professional, a devoted student of Catholic theology, or a devoted priest looking to enrich your homily, the Verbum mobile app is your ultimate Catholic study companion. With access to a vast theological library, daily readings from the Lectionary, and powerful study tools, Verbum makes it easy to make time for reading, even when you're booked. The app allows you to organize and schedule your reading, create reading plans, and access Catholic study tools like the Catechism and Church Fathers with just a tap. With seamless syncing across platforms, free resources, and access to an extensive library, Verbum is the perfect mobile resource for anyone looking to bring the Mind of the Church with them wherever they go. Download the free Verbum app today and unlock a world of Catholic insights and knowledge at your fingertips.
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Verbum Catholic Bible Study is the mobile app for the Verbum / Logos library by Faithlife. It is the heavy-duty Catholic study tool of the bunch — Bible text, Catholic commentaries, the Catechism, the Church Fathers, and a search engine that ties them all together.
The app itself is free to download. What you can read inside depends on what you own. Faithlife sells Catholic resource bundles ranging from a small free starter library up through scholar-level packages. Once a resource is in your account, the app gives you access on your phone — Bible text side-by-side with commentary, lectionary readings for daily Mass, the ability to tap any word and pull up Catechism paragraphs or what the Church Fathers said about it.
What I appreciate is that this is one of the few Catholic apps built for actual study, not just devotion. The search is fast, the cross-linking is genuine, and the offline mode works on planes. If you have ever wished you could look something up the way a seminarian does without owning a shelf of books, this is what that looks like on a phone.
Good for priests preparing homilies, RCIA leaders building a class, seminarians, deacons, catechists, and laypeople who take Bible study seriously. Also useful for anyone who wants to pair the Catechism with the Bible passage they are reading.
It is not a casual app. The interface assumes you know what a commentary is and how to use one. Most of the deep library content is paid, sometimes expensive, and Faithlife runs a lot of upgrade prompts. If you only want a daily reading and a rosary, this is too much app.
Free download, by Faithlife Corporation (the Logos people). Available on the App Store: Verbum Catholic Bible Study. The best mobile Catholic study tool I have used.
App Store Description
Access powerful Bible study tools and a theological library for Catholic insights on the go. With the Verbum mobile app, you can read the Bible and Catholic commentaries side by side, save books for studying offline, and use exclusive Verbum Catholic study tools.
Make Time for Reading, Even When You’re Booked Organize and schedule your reading in seconds. Create a list of books in your library, then start a reading plan when you’re ready to dig in.
Access All Your Catholic Study Tools in One Location Tap a word or passage to highlight, leave a note, open the Catechism and Church Fathers, and more, all with the enhanced text selection menu.
Find What You’re Looking for, Instantly Access powerful search features from any book or resource. Quickly navigate to any verse in the Bible or search your library to go deeper.
Never Lose Your Audience—or Your Place Easily read your homily outline or manuscript, get a clear view of all your slides, and see a built-in timer to help you stay on track with Preaching Mode.
The Verbum mobile app runs on Logos’ powerful Bible software and is the world’s most advanced resource for mobile Catholic study. Verbum comes with 15 free books, including the Lectionary, six Bible translations, reference works, and saints’ lives resources, and works seamlessly with your other Verbum books, such as the Catechism of the Catholic Church. When you sign in with a free Verbum account, you get access to many more free resources and features, such as the Sources of Catholic Dogma (Denzinger), reading plans, highlights, and note-taking features. The Verbum app syncs across all your platforms, so you can pick up right where you left off.
Download the free Verbum app today and bring the Mind of the Church with you wherever you go.
FREE RESOURCES *The Catholic Lectionary, The Roman Catechism, Pictorial Lives of the Saints, Sources of Catholic Dogma (Denzinger), Thomas a Kempis’ The Imitation of Christ, Newman’s An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, Chesterton’s Orthodoxy, and many more. *Free Bibles: The Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition, Douay-Rheims, King James Version, Clementine Vulgate, Novum Testamentum Graece (Tischendorf), The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition, Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, Lexham English Bible.
TOP FEATURES:
LECTIONARY - Access daily readings with a simple tap.
CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH - The app integrates fully with the Logos edition of the Catechism.
LIBRARY - Instantly access up to ninety-five free resources to kick off your Bible study. Or sync your current Verbum library to access all your books on the go.
PANEL LINKING - Get three independent channels for linking your resources so they track along with you as you read.
LAYOUTS FOR iPAD - Simultaneously use up to six books and/or tools on a single screen with Layouts on your tablet.
REFERENCE SCANNER - Take a picture of a church bulletin or handout using Reference Scanner and the app will open your preferred Bible version to all the verse references.
PASSAGE LIST - Use Reference Scanner to snap a picture of a document and look up many verses at once, then save those verses as a Passage List.
BIBLE WORD STUDY - Learn more about any word in the Bible by examining dictionaries, lexicons, and cross-references.
PASSAGE GUIDE - Get a detailed, verse-specific report that includes Bible commentaries, cross-references, literary typing, and media resources.
TEXT COMPARISON - Compare any verse across multiple translations with visual and percentage indicators of difference.
TABBED BROWSING - Open as many resources or Bibles as you want and view them side by side.
SEARCH - Find every mention of a word or phrase in every resource in your library.
READING PLANS - Get into daily reading with several Bible reading plans to choose from.
Find training for the app at https://www.verbum.com/training/ios.
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