“It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD … to shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night.”
Covenant Household gives you a psalm to sing, two lessons from Scripture and a prayer for each day of the church year. Use it alone or with your family.
Free. No account. Works offline.
The iPhone and Android apps will be available soon.
A daily prayer book in the Reformed tradition, with the full text on the page.
A daily prayer book gives the psalms, the readings and the prayers for each day. Most of these books follow the church year, and many of them read from the Apocrypha.
Covenant Household keeps the calendar of the Book of Common Prayer. It reads only the canonical Scriptures. You sing the psalm from the Scottish Psalter of 1650.
A psalm, two lessons and a prayer. About fifteen minutes.
The text is on the page, so you do not need a second book. Each part links to the app that helps you go further with it.
Sing one psalm from the Scottish Psalter. Open “More psalms for today” to read the other psalms of the day.
Read one lesson from the Old Testament and one from the New Testament. The evening lessons are below them.
On Sundays and feasts, read the Epistle and the Gospel that the church reads on that day.
Pray the collect of the week. Then pray for your family, your church and your neighbours in your own words.
More parts will come
We will add a writing from the Reformed tradition, a hymn and a part of the Westminster Standards to each day. We choose each text with care, and we use only texts that are free to share. These parts will come one at a time.
The readings follow the life of Christ through the year.
Each Sunday has a name, a collect, an Epistle and a Gospel. The lessons of the week go with that Sunday. Tap the date in the app to see the month, with each Sunday and each feast.
This is not a plan to read the whole Bible in a year. If you use such a plan, Covenant Household goes well with it.
Worship God at home, morning and evening.
The Westminster Directory for Family Worship (1647) asks each family to pray, to sing praise and to read the Scriptures each day. The head of the family leads. Covenant Household gives you the order and the text.
01
Sing the psalm together. If no one can lead the tune, Precentor plays it.
02
Read one lesson aloud. Talk about it with your children.
03
Say a catechism answer together. Hearers helps each person learn it by heart.
04
Pray the collect. Then pray for your family and your church.
Old texts, which are free to share.
The Prayer Book tables also give lessons from the Apocrypha. The Westminster Confession (1.3) says that these books are not part of the canon of Scripture. Covenant Household reads a canonical lesson in their place. Each lesson comes from the book that the Apocrypha book copies or describes, for example Proverbs in place of Ecclesiasticus.
Free for every household. Support from you keeps it free.
You get every part of Covenant Household for free. If it helps your family, you can give a gift. A gift adds no content. It gives a small badge in the app as thanks.
Everything in the prayer book, for you and your family.
$0always
The same prayer book. Your gift pays for the server and for new texts.
Your choiceone time
Free, and it stays free. No advertisements, no accounts, no cookies.
Luke Boyle makes Covenant Household. It is one of a set of free apps for the Reformed churches:
Install Covenant Household on your phone, or open it in your browser. It is free, and it works offline.
The iPhone and Android apps will be available soon.
Open the web app