About Vinea

Why it exists

A Catholic day has a shape: a season, a saint, readings, prayers learned in childhood. Vinea tries to hold that shape in one calm place, so that a phone can be a help to prayer rather than an interruption of it. The test we hold it to is simple: it should be worth opening every day by someone with no interest in a social app.

What we hold to

• Prayer comes first. Today stays the first thing you see. Everything else is reached from it.
• Prayer needs no account. The readings and prayers are open to anyone.
• Your interior life is yours. The examination of conscience never leaves the screen, and your record of prayer is never shown to anyone or compared with anyone.
• No advertising, no third-party tracking. Your attention is not what we are selling.
• No like counts. Reactions are “Amen” and “I prayed for this”. Timelines are chronological.
• Honesty about what is unfinished. A wrong reading is worse than no reading, so what has not been checked is marked as such.

Vinea and the Church

Vinea is an independent project. It is not an official publication of the Catholic Church or of any diocese, bishops' conference or religious institute, and it has not received an imprimatur or any other ecclesiastical approval. A verification badge on a person's profile confirms their standing and nothing more: it is not an endorsement of what they say.

Vinea is a tool for prayer and formation. It does not replace the sacraments, your parish or your confessor.

What is not here yet

• A full Bible reader and saints' lives
• The Liturgy of the Hours, which needs licensed texts
• Translations of Scripture other than the Douay-Rheims
• Languages other than English

The Lectionary citations are also still to be checked against a printed Lectionary. Our texts and sources page explains what that means.

Get in touch

We would be glad to hear from you, especially if you are a priest, canonist or catechist who can tell us where we have gone wrong: claudeappiahsasraku@gmail.com.