Catena: Bible & Commentaries7.0.1 - App Store

The Bible has been changing lives for thousands of years.

Moses wrote of a God who hears the cry of His people. David sang to Him from the cave and the palace. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John wrote down what they saw and heard of Jesus. Paul wrote from prison to churches he loved. Their words have carried people through grief, doubt, exile, and joy for a hundred generations, and they are still doing it today.

Catena helps you read the Bible with the understanding of 2,000 years of the most influential Christians.

We collect the writings of faithful Christians, men and women who read these same pages within a few generations of the apostles. Athanasius, who was exiled five times for holding to the divinity of Christ. Antony, who heard one verse read in church and walked into the desert. Basil, who built the first hospital. Gregory, John Chrysostom, Augustine, Cyril, Ephrem, and more than 100 others. They were bishops, monks, teachers, and martyrs. They were critical to nurturing the faith of their communities, and suffered for the faith we still hold. Catena puts their words beside every verse.

Catena also brings the largest library of verse-tagged video and podcast Bible studies and sermons, so you can hear the same passage preached by priests and teachers today.

All of it for one purpose: to help you see the love, joy, mercy, and forgiveness of God that is woven through Scripture from the first page to the last.

EVERY VERSE, EXPLAINED
Tap any verse and read what the Church Fathers said about it. Over 200,000 passages of commentary from more than 100 Fathers of the East and the West, arranged verse by verse so you never have to go looking.

A LIBRARY OF COMPLETE WORKS
Read the Fathers in full, not only in excerpts.
- Athanasius's On the Incarnation
- Augustine's Confessions and City of God
- Life of Antony
- Chrysostom's homilies on Matthew and John
- Cyril of Alexandria on Luke and John
- Basil, Gregory, Origen, Ambrose, Ephrem, the Apostolic Fathers, and many more.

Over 1,500 complete texts, and every Scripture reference inside them opens the verse.

BIBLE STUDIES AND SERMONS, TAGGED BY VERSE
Access thousands of videos and podcasts, every one transcribed and tagged to the verses it teaches on.
Open a verse and jump to the moment it was preached.
Read the transcript beside the video, and keep watching in picture-in-picture while you read.

THE BIBLE IN YOUR LANGUAGE
Over 220 translations in 71 languages, including the Van Dyck Arabic and the Bohairic Coptic New Testament. Go deeper with the Hebrew and Greek interlinear, parallel passages, related verses, footnotes, and cross-references.

THE DAILY READINGS
The Coptic, Ethiopian, Catholic, and Greek lectionaries, with the Synaxarium, the feasts, and the fasting seasons. Open the app and today's readings are waiting.

FIND IT IN SECONDS
One search across Scripture, commentary, the Fathers, their books, and talks.

MAKE IT YOURS
Highlight in the colors you choose, take notes, and gather verses and commentary into collections. Sign in and everything stays in sync across your devices. Save books for reading offline.

READ YOUR WAY
Choose your font, size, and spacing. Read on beige paper, in the light, or in dark mode. A Quote of the Day from the Fathers and the early monks of the desert, with a home screen widget.

We pray that Catena may be an edifying resource in your relationship with God, to whom is due all glory, honor, and dominion. Now and forever, and unto the ages of all ages, Amen.

Version History Catena 7.0.1 adds the Arabic Van Dyck Bible with the deuterocanonical books, new church calendars, and faster reading.

New
- Added the Arabic Van Dyck Bible with the deuterocanonical books: Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, the Maccabees, Baruch, and more.
- Added new church calendars: the Byzantine Old Calendar, the Greek order, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, and the pre-1955 Roman Missal.
- The verse panel now also shows commentary and talks on parallel passages, such as the same story in another Gospel.
- Each commentary now shows the years its author lived.
- Choosing your Preferred Commentator now shows every Father on a timeline, with search.

Improved
- Chapters open faster and scroll more smoothly.
- The Fathers and eras you hide in Settings are now hidden on every verse, and left out of the commentary count.
- Related verses now open in full, with a link to their chapter.
- You can turn the daily quote reminder on or off from the Quote of the Day in the Library.
- You can now remove the NKJV and RSV to save space. If no Bible is left, Catena reinstalls them automatically, even offline.
- Video shelves now mix speakers, so one series no longer fills a whole row.

Fixed
- Fixed a freeze when tapping a verse. Back now returns you to the verse you came from.
- Fixed commentary cards freezing or selecting text by accident.
- Setting your Deuterocanonical Version to "None" now saves correctly. 7.0.1 Oct 6 Introducing Catena 7.0. An all-new Catena with 3x more commentary, from 1,500 complete patristic works.

The Bible has been changing lives for thousands of years. Throughout the Old and New Testaments, its writers, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, have recorded, prophesied, taught, and revealed the love, mercy, and hope of God for mankind. We rebuilt Catena from the ground up so that you can read with the understanding of 2,000 years of writings from the most influential Christians.

A LIBRARY OF COMPLETE WORKS
For the first time, the writings of the Fathers are here in full, not only the passages that touch a verse.
These were bishops, monks, teachers, and martyrs who read these same pages within a few generations of the apostles.
- Athanasius's On the Incarnation
- Augustine's Confessions and City of God
- Life of Antony
- Chrysostom's homilies on Matthew and John
- Cyril of Alexandria on Luke and John
- Basil, Gregory, Origen, Ambrose, Ephrem, the Apostolic Fathers, and many more.

Over 1,500 complete texts, chapter by chapter, and every Scripture reference inside them opens the verse.

BIBLE STUDIES AND SERMONS, TAGGED BY VERSE
The largest library of verse-tagged video and podcast Bible studies and sermons, so you can hear the same passage preached by priests and teachers today.
Thousands of talks, every one transcribed and tagged to the verses it teaches on.
Open a verse and jump to the moment it was preached.
Read the transcript beside the video, and keep watching in picture-in-picture while you read.

A REDESIGNED CATENA
A cleaner reader, a new home screen, and the Fathers' words a tap away instead of a screen away.

OVER 220 BIBLE TRANSLATIONS
Read in 71 languages, including the Van Dyck Arabic and the Bohairic Coptic New Testament. Go deeper with the Hebrew and Greek interlinear, parallel passages, related verses, footnotes, and cross-references.

IN YOUR LANGUAGE
Catena is now available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese, with full right-to-left support and numerals in your own script.

THE DAILY READINGS, EVERY DAY
The Coptic, Ethiopian, Catholic, and Greek lectionaries, with the Synaxarium, the feasts, and the fasting seasons.

FIND IT IN SECONDS
One search across Scripture, commentary, the Fathers, their books, and talks.

MAKE IT YOURS
Highlight in the colors you choose, take notes, and gather verses and commentary into collections. Your highlights and collections from the old Catena come with you when you sign in, and everything stays in sync across your devices.

ALSO NEW
- Read offline: save books of the Bible and their commentaries to your device.
- A Quote of the Day from the Fathers and the early monks of the desert, with a home screen widget.
- Share a verse, a passage, or a Father's words with a link that opens in Catena or on the web.
- Old commentary links from the previous app and website open in the new one.

All of it for one purpose: to help you see the love, joy, mercy, and forgiveness of God that is woven through Scripture from the first page to the last.

We pray that Catena may be an edifying resource in your relationship with God, to whom is due all glory, honor, and dominion. Now and forever, and unto the ages of all ages, Amen. 7.0.0 Sep 26 Try Catena Search for commentaries & verses!
If you would like to support the service and help it grow, please consider a donation at catenabible.com/donate 5.5.1 01/14/2023 NEW: Search commentaries & verses.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

If you would like to support the service and help it grow, please consider a donation at catenabible.com/donate 5.5 12/28/2022 Introducing, Commentary Context! Now you can read a full chapter of scripture with commentaries from a church father right alongside. Just scroll to the bottom and tap "Read all commentaries". God bless! 5.4.1 12/17/2022 Introducing, Commentary Context: Now you can read a full chapter of scripture with commentaries from a church father right alongside. Just scroll to the bottom and tap "Read all commentaries". God bless! 5.4 12/11/2022 We have made a few bug fixes to improve issues with login, plans, and adding notes on favorites.
God bless! 5.3.1 11/11/2022 [Paragraphs] Catena now formats the Bible in traditional paragraphs for easier reading! You can switch back to line-by-line in the settings.

[Donations] After 7 years of building Catena, we have introduced a donation option in the settings. There is so much the team would like to do for you and donations will help us grow the service. If you would like to support Catena in bringing Apostolic Christianity to every person, everywhere, please consider a donation to the service. 5.3 09/22/2022 Catena now formats the Bible in traditional paragraphs for easier reading!

We have also introduced a donation option in the settings. There is so much the team would like to do for you and donations will help us grow the service. If you would like to support Catena in bringing Apostolic Christianity to every person, everywhere, please consider a donation to the service. 5.2.3 09/11/2022 Create your own Bible Plan on Catena. Choose the books, chapters, and date you want to read by. 5.2.2 04/01/2022 Announcing Catena's Bible Plan generator!
Create your own Bible plan, or try one of the presets (e.g. "Bible in 365 days")

Features:
- Chapters now include section headers (e.g. Matthew 5:1, "The Beatitudes")
- Jesus' words are now italicized
- Dark mode for settings screen 5.2.1 03/04/2022 Announcing Catena's Bible Plan generator! Create your own Bible plan, or try one of the presets (e.g. "4 Gospels in 4 Months")

Additional Features:
- Chapters now include section headers (e.g. Matthew 5:1, "The Beatitudes")
- Jesus' words are now italicized
- Dark mode for settings screen 5.2 02/28/2022 Announcing the NKJV and NIV Bible versions now available on Catena, God Bless! 5.1 08/23/2021 We have improved our design to make the Catena experience the best it can be!
Share your feedback with us, we'd love to hear it.

God bless 5.0 02/27/2021 NEW! Watch videos on Catena on the Video Tab!
Tap any verse while watching to read the commentaries side-by-side with the video! 4.6 12/06/2020 - Watch videos verse-by-verse! Swipe left on the carousel to access the video card!
- Take notes on verses and commentaries! Just tap "Add Note" when favoriting to a collection! 4.5.1 09/10/2020 - Watch videos verse-by-verse! Swipe left on the carousel to access the video card!
- Take notes on verses and commentaries! Just tap "Add Note" when favoriting to a collection! 4.5 08/24/2020 NEW BIBLE VERSIONS: Douay-Rheims, RSV, ASV, and more! 4.4.2 07/06/2020 Improvements and bug fixes to improve the Catena experience. 4.3.3 06/24/2020 Swipe to the last card on a verse to see Bible Studies that mention it!
Try Matthew 5:4!

God Bless! 4.3.2 06/16/2020 BIG Catena Update!
- Swipe to the last card to watch Bible Studies that discuss a verse
- Sign In with Facebook, Apple, and Google
- Addition of Greek Lectionary for Daily Readings
- Now you can set a daily notification with a quote of the day! 4.3.1 06/12/2020 BIG Catena Update!
- Swipe to the last card to watch Bible Studies that discuss a verse
- Sign In with Facebook, Apple, and Google
- Addition of Greek Lectionary for Daily Readings
- Now you can set a daily notification with a quote of the day!
- ...and MUCH MORE! 4.3 06/10/2020 Watch LIVE Bible Studies and Christian Discussion on Catena! 4.2.2 05/07/2020 Bug fixes and improvements for a better Catena experience! 4.2.1 05/04/2020 Announcing, Catena LIVE!
a Christian content platform with Bible studies and discussions, rooted in Catena's apostolic content!
Open the Live tab and find several shows for you to watch to deepen your relationship with God. 4.2 04/27/2020