Catena: Bible & Commentaries 4+

David Salib

Designed for iPad

    • 4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
    • Free

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Description

Catena is the Bible with verse-by-verse commentary from the church fathers. This gives you insights on the scripture by early Christian theologians, whose faith is the basis of all Christians.

Catena brings the faith that was taught by Christ, preached by the Apostles and kept by the fathers. Commentaries from the original Church perspective speaks to the deeper experience in the roots of the authentic faith.

If you are looking for authoritative guidance in interpreting Scripture, understanding the early church, and learning how to apply the Word of God to your spiritual life, Catena will be a treasured resource for you

God Bless!

What’s New

Version 5.5.1

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Ratings and Reviews

4.9 out of 5
2.4K Ratings

2.4K Ratings

socribel ,

Revolutionized my Bible study

I have been using Catena for about 2 years now and what a difference it has made for me. My ability to read commentaries associated with Bible verses, my ability to highlight and save verses and commentaries, write my own reflections and insights regarding them and then have it handy when I need it has been instrumental in me beginning to understand and share. I do wish that the verses and commentaries that I save would be available on the app between my iPhone and iPad. As it is, I have everything on my iPad, and must have it with me during Bible studies and conversations. Moreover, Catholic Bible translation would be additionally nice to use, because the ability to switch translations of the Bible easily when a verse or word is difficult to understand has in itself been incredibly helpful. But not helpful in the Deuterocanonical scripture which is why another Catholic translation would be useful.

Marisauna ,

Great app

There are some things, I think, you have to learn through a mentor. Biblical interpretation is one of these things. If you don’t have access to a live mentor, and even if you do hearing the combined witness of the Fathers will help you out a ton. They are rightly theological heavyweights and passers-on of traditional interpretations.

It is unfortunate that there are so few post-Chalcedonian Fathers included in this collection, but seeing as this app is both made by the Oriental Orthodox and designed to be ecumenical, I’m not all that surprised. Either way, the early Fathers provide just as good a witness to the Faith as later ones.

One thing I think would help fulfill this app’s mission is the addition of of a search function, or some kind of concordance. I know Strong’s is in the public domain. That way you can look up a specific verse you might want to hear about, and read the commentaries. Some way to filter out certain commentators would be nice, too.

Jose Caps ,

Bible app done right

This app is good and has lots of good info. Videos to explain its meaning of each verse and very detailed by the church fathers. Has daily quotes, gives in depth history of each verse from the apostles and saints that took part of Jesus Christ missionary work. But wish it was in Spanish cus my mother doesn’t know English very much. I also wished it had an encyclopedia for words and word bank that talks about the Greek and gives us lessons that we can look at and study it. Would love that it would add more tools like history of the rosary and why the mysteries on it are in the Bible as a way to express the powers of reciting it and where to find it in the Bible. And more, cus that way it can help not only build the faith but also to create this rich archive to find and save more work and show to the world.

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