Ora et Labora

Download Ora et Labora APK Free to carry a Benedictine monastery in your pocket, with the prayer of the hour always close at hand. The app opens to the current pause in the center, reached with just one button, so you can pray for a few minutes at any point in the day. Around that pause sit the seven short pauses that punctuate the day, from Dawn to Night, together with the prayerful reading of Scripture, the Rule of St. Benedict read in a daily chapter, the Gregorian chant of the Mass and Office with sheet music, and the sayings of the Desert Fathers. Everything is complete inside the app and works without internet access, which makes this Catholic prayer app a steady companion for daily prayer wherever you are.

Inside the app, the Gregorian chant collection holds the Graduale Romanum with the chants of today’s Mass ready to sing, along with the Hymnal and Antiphonary with hymns, antiphons, and other chants. There are 1,269 chants in square notation, with Latin and translation, so you can follow the chant of the day in the language you read.

Ora et Labora APK Prayer Features

The prayer section gathers the daily routine of a Benedictine day into a simple order. Each part is short enough to fit into a busy day, and the app keeps track of what you have prayed.

– Hodie: seven short pauses, from Dawn to Night. Hodie is not the Liturgy of the Hours, but a brief prayer routine for those who have only a few minutes to pray during the hours when monks do so.
– The Church’s time: the Hodie tells you what time it is and what it asks for, informs you of Sundays and holy days of obligation, and, during Lent, teaches you how to fast.
– Today’s prayers: the list of the day, marked as you pray, with its routine laid out in order.
– Guided Lectio Divina, with the passage of the day. The guided reading leads you through the Scripture passage set for that day.
– Gregorian Chant: today’s chants, the assembled Mass, hymns and antiphons, ready to sing from the app.
– Rosary with the mysteries of the day, in five languages, and the complete Rosary for praying the full cycle.
– Prayers of all time in six languages: Portuguese, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish and Polish, so you can pray in the language that suits you.
– Litanies and Novenas, kept together with the other prayers of the tradition.
– Examination of Conscience, for a short daily review at the close of the day.
– Psalter in Latin, to pray in two choirs, in the manner of monastic prayer.

With the prayers, the rosary, and the chant gathered in one place, the app lets you move from one pause to the next without searching for texts.

Ora et Labora APK Study, Living and Resources

Beyond prayer, the app carries the reading and the calendar of monastic life. The study section holds the complete Holy Bible in the Vulgate translation, with 73 books and 35,602 verses, and the Rule of Saint Benedict read in chapter, so the entire Rule is read three times a year. It also holds the Dialogues of St. Gregory the Great, with The Life of St. Benedict complete, the Apophthegms of the Desert Fathers with 721 sayings, a glossary of 101 terms from the monastic tradition, seven meetings on learning to pray at your own pace, and formation articles from the Tent of the Lord, arranged in trails.

The living section keeps a perennial liturgical calendar with the celebrations of each day, the manual of indulgences with the works of today, and a guide to 56 monasteries in Brazil, Benedictine, Cistercian and other families, where you can pray, visit and make retreats, with address, accommodation and oblation. It also holds the lives of 61 Benedictine saints, each with a life and a feast day.

Everything works without internet, and the app only connects if you request it, since the new version notification and crash reports are turned off. The four tabs are Hodie, Word, Archive, and More, and the Archive is a room with six doors. Prayers are composed like a page in a book, with rubrics in red, in two book fonts, EB Garamond and Literata, with small caps and old numerals. You can search in all modules, follow cross-references in Scripture, keep bookmarks and highlighting, and share verses as images. One-touch accessibility on the home screen sets the text size for the entire app, grayscale, and high contrast, while sepia mode and dark mode follow the time of day. There is no account, no ads, no tracking, and no scoring, because prayer is freedom, not obligation.

Ora et Labora is a project of the Tenda do Senhor Mission, a Catholic lay community founded on July 11, 2000, the feast day of Saint Benedict. It is led by André Butzke and João Guilherme, who are responsible for its editorial and institutional decisions, and inside the app, “Get to Know Ora et Labora” tells the story, introduces those responsible, and explains the path of proposals and partnerships. If you want a Benedictine prayer app that keeps the hours, the chant, and the reading of the Rule together, get the app from the Android App Store and begin with the next pause of the day. Androidru.com Android App Store is the best and safest APK downloader in 2027. Pray and work. Ora et Labora.