Universalis

Latest update: 10-Jun-2013. Database version: 1637 5-Jun-2013.

Mac

Cost

Free if you already have a Universalis registration code. A registration code costs £19.99 (about $32 or €25). NOTE: If you have already got the Universalis app for Android or for iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch, the registration code will cost less, to make up for what you have already paid. You can read more about this here.

Free one-month trial.

Content & features

Users of Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) and users of PowerPC Macs, please see this page instead.

Supports all recent versions of Mac OS:

No Internet connection needed.

Full liturgical calendar including many national and local calendars.

About Today pages for every saint and feast.

Liturgy of the Hours – Psalms, prayers and readings from every Hour: Morning Prayer, the three daytime Hours (Terce, Sext and None), Evening Prayer, Night Prayer and the Office of Readings. Translations: The readings are from the Jerusalem Bible. For the psalms, you have a choice between our own translation (as seen on the Web) and the Grail version, which is used in most of the English-speaking world.

The Order of Mass – The new English translation of the Order of Mass, which came into use in 2011. You can optionally view the text in Latin and some other languages side by side with the English.

Readings at Mass – First Reading, Responsorial Psalm, Second Reading, Gospel Acclamation and Gospel, plus the antiphons and prayers for the Mass of the day. Translations: You have a choice between the Jerusalem Bible readings with the Grail psalms (used in most of the English-speaking world) and the New American Bible readings and psalms (used in the USA).

Mass Today A single page that gives you the whole of the Mass of the day: the Order of Mass with all the readings, antiphons and prayers filled in.

No time limits: view any date, past, present or future.

Formatted for best appearance on your computer.

Type size easily changed to suit your needs.

Creates e-books for e-book readers including the Sony Reader, the Nook, and the Amazon Kindle.

Lets you set up the automatic daily email service.

How to get it

Click here to download and install the program.

To start with, your new program will cover only the month it was installed and the month after: outside those months you'll see only the calendar and the About Today and Order of Mass pages. To remove these limitations you need to enter a registration code.

Here is how to get a registration code.

And here is how to enter the registration code into the Universalis program.

How to use it

Instructions.