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** The #1 Catholic Bible App**
Designed to help Catholics read and understand the Bible, learn the teachings and tradition of the Catholic Church, and grow to live the life God is calling them to more fully.
Featuring the most popular Catholic Bible in America, the Great Adventure Catholic Bible, with the one-of-a-kind Bible Timeline® learning system that has helped hundreds of thousands of Catholics finally read AND understand God’s Word.
TOP FEATURES
CRUX LENTEN CHALLENGE
The Crux Lenten Challenge begins February 18 and runs daily until Easter Sunday. Participants will learn how to surrender their lives to God by submitted to four daily challenges, including 1) daily reading of Scripture, 2) a nightly Examen, 3) daily exercise, and 4) a dietary fast. Spiritual guidance from Fr. Columba Jordan's daily videos is available for subscribers in the Ascension app and will help participants through struggles, provide encouragement, and guidance to hear God's voice as they grow in Faith.
PRAY THE ROSARY
Fr. Mike Schmitz, Fr. Mark-Mary Ames, Jeff Cavins, the Sisters of Life, and Paul Rose lead recordings of the Joyful, Luminous, Sorrowful, and Glorious mysteries of the Rosary. Pray in English or Latin, with options to chant the prayers.
DAILY MASS READINGS + REFLECTIONS
Read the official Daily Mass readings and watch reflections from trusted Catholic presenters who dive deeper to unpack the readings each day. Pray also with guided lectio divina prompts directly in the app.
THE GREAT ADVENTURE CATHOLIC BIBLE
Read the full-text of the Great Adventure Catholic Bible, listen on audio with recordings from Fr. Mike Schmitz, get answers to 1000+ most-asked questions about the Bible, and dive deeper into each book and verse with the Bible Timeline® learning system and the Bible Guide.
PREP FOR SUNDAY MASS
Watch or listen to recordings of Fr. Mike Schmitz’s homilies and watch Encountering the Word where Bible scholar Jeff Cavins provides historical, Biblical, and spiritual context to the readings at Sunday Mass.
“IN A YEAR” PODCASTS
Get the best experience of the Bible in a Year, Catechism in a Year, and Rosary in a Year podcasts, with additional content, prayer aides, transcripts, answered questions, linked references and Bible verses, and more!
STUDY PLANS
Browse from 80+ study plans taught by leading Catholic presenters, including Fr. Mike Schmitz, Jeff Cavins, Dr. Edward Sri, Sarah Christmeyer, Jackie Francois Angel, and many others. Study plans are a companion to help you understand the Bible better, learn more about Catholic teaching, and strengthen you to more fully live the life God is calling you to.
SAINT OF THE DAY
Read daily reflections on the lives of the saints, following the memorials and feast days on the liturgical calendar.
CATHOLIC PRAYERS
Discover novenas, litanies, guided lectio divina and visio divina experiences, and more!
SUBSCRIPTION PRICING AND TERMS
All users can access the full text of the Bible, the full text of the Catechism, Daily Mass readings and reflections of the day, the full Rosary with all recorded voices, and all Ascension podcasts in the app for free.
To access all content and programs in the Ascension App, Ascension offers two auto-renewing subscription options:
$8.99 per month
$59.99 per year
(Please note these prices are for users in the USA)
Your Ascension subscription will renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can go to your Apple account settings to manage your subscription and turn off auto-renew. Your account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. Please contact us at support@ascensionpress.com if you have any issues or questions.
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Community Voice & Feedback
Need closed captioning for those who are hard of hearing for the videos. Also, Spanish needs to be added as well.
I’ve loved listening to Bible in a Year and other podcasts. However, I can no longer see all the episodes and scrolling is difficult or impossible. I tried deleting the app and re installing it, but that didn’t help.
The best online Catholic resource out there
Amazing app
This app has really grown on me. I love how it’s structured with the “daily” workflow of the daily readings, video essay, saint of the day, and written essay.
I love the ability to read and highlight both the Bible and Catechism, even from the daily readings. My hope is that when the CAB is added, highlights are synchronized in either version. It would be pretty annoying to need to start from scratch with those.
I miss the catechism tab and wish they would add it back.
Really the main things it’s missing is a CarPlay app for audio and an iOS home widget to view a daily quote or saint image or something.
I love the ability to read and highlight both the Bible and Catechism, even from the daily readings. My hope is that when the CAB is added, highlights are synchronized in either version. It would be pretty annoying to need to start from scratch with those.
I miss the catechism tab and wish they would add it back.
Really the main things it’s missing is a CarPlay app for audio and an iOS home widget to view a daily quote or saint image or something.
Thank you, Ascenscion! I’m a Protestant in process of “discerning” (can I use that language?) conversion to Catholicism. I feel so safe listening to your Bible in a Year and Catechism in a Year. I’m starting slowly to really believe God loves me and is good, which has always been a struggle. Thank you for making Catholicism accessible to an outsider!
Thank you to Ascension Press for the work they have done to make the Bible, the Catechism, the Rosary and all their Bible studies and teachings so accessible and wisdom-filled and inspiring and enjoyable. I now lead the Bible study, “The Story of Salvation” in my church in New Hampshire and I’m taking it to Dublin, Ireland where I come from and where I am therefore drawn to. Many thanks. Explore all at Ascension Press. It could not only save you for all eternity, but also help you give that gift to others. Enjoy! I couldn’t leave my learning down, for the first time in my life. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Ascension Press!
I love the ascension app, the only thing we are missing on iOS is a “verse of the day widget” it would be awesome if something like that could be added in an update!
I really love this Lenten Study with Fr. Columba .
His version of the Examen prayer is the only one that I have ever had used that makes it easy to use and understand! 5 Stars
His version of the Examen prayer is the only one that I have ever had used that makes it easy to use and understand! 5 Stars
Doing the Bible in a Year with Fr Mike for 3 years (from the start) gave me a good appreciation of the Bible and my Catholic faith. TODAY, The same Great Adventure Bible is online.WHAT A TREAT! What is even better are the side commentaries to give readers CONTEXT, Culture, references etc. A wellspring and treasure chest of information. A WOW factor for me.
This APP has been such a blessing to me!
Every day, I listen, I learn and I grow. There is nothing more important than our relationship with God. This will feed your soul in a way that you are forced touched and changed. Father Mike and Jeff Cavins are
A blessing. The Bible in A Year has such wonderful commentary and it seeps itself into your heart.
A blessing. The Bible in A Year has such wonderful commentary and it seeps itself into your heart.
I’ve always enjoyed listening to Jeff Cavins and Father Mike Schmitz, and how awesome it is to have them in one location! There is such great material to support and grow a person in their faith journey!
Love this app!
Great resources but, I have found it difficult to get around as well as the people that I have suggested follow the Lent program that I’m on with Father Colombia Jordan. Sometimes it’s hard to find him sometimes one has to wait for things to show up or other things get sent to you that you may not want like all this buying and selling of material and all these other prophetic voices that may indeed be wonderful, but I am interested in one person right now and not being flooded going through pages to find the correct site. What I have recommended it to my friends they give up, trying to find it and sent her around the one thing. It’s too much of a great thing which makes it not very good to get around..
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