Blagodat

Blagodat (Благодат, "grace") is a daily companion for Serbian Orthodox Christians in Serbia and the diaspora. EVERY DAY • The saint of the day with an icon or fresco, the church date "по старом" and the new-style date • Fasting for the day exactly as in the calendar of the Serbian Orthodox Church: water, oil, fish or no fast, with what that means at the table • A Bible verse in the morning and another in the evening, with a link to the whole chapter • Red-letter and black-letter feasts marked as in the printed church calendar, Serbian saints highlighted CALENDAR • The full liturgical year of the Serbian Orthodox Church, checked day by day against the official calendar • Pascha and every movable feast, the four great fasts and every Wednesday and Friday fast at a glance • Jump to any month and year • Short lives of the saints (житија) HOLY SCRIPTURE • The whole Bible offline in the Daničić–Karadžić translation • Search across all 66 books, in Cyrillic or Latin script • Bookmarks, adjustable text size, remembers where you stopped reading SLAVA • Your krsna slava with countdown, reminders seven days before and on the day, and a preparation checklist (kolač, žito, candle, wine, icon) • Add the slavas you visit, kum, aunts, neighbours, and get reminded in time to buy a gift NOTIFICATIONS • At most two a day, at the times you choose: morning (saint, fast and verse) and evening (verse and tomorrow's fast) • Switch them off at any time WIDGETS • Home screen widget with today's saint, date and fast • Lock screen widgets with the saint and the fast ALSO • Share today's saint and verse as a picture • Cyrillic or Latin script • Works fully offline. No account, no tracking, no ads • VoiceOver and Larger Text supported Sources: the calendar follows the official calendar of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Icons and frescoes are public domain or Creative Commons works, credited in the app. Bible text: Daničić–Karadžić translation (public domain).