One prompt each morning, a forum for the questions you carry, pen pals who write back slowly, and a private Journal where you pray with Scripture and great paintings.
We need faces and voices to speak for people again.POPE LEO XIV60th World Day of Social Communications, 2026
A network not of wires but of people.POPE FRANCIS48th World Day of Social Communications, 2014
Let us set sail on the digital sea fearlessly.POPE BENEDICT XVI“Digital Witnesses”, 2010
Four places in one home, made for ordinary life and for the friendships that grow when people are given time to speak honestly.
Feed
Every morning there is one prompt. Answer it on the Feed, or keep your answer in your Journal. Then read how Catholics in other countries answered the same question.
Write a few words for someone in the worst week of their life.
Write a few words for someone in the worst week of their life.
You don't have to pray well this week. Let the rest of us carry you for a while. That is what the Church is for.
Forum
Ask what you would not ask at the parish hall. Bring the context, tell the whole story, and read answers from Catholics who have walked the same road.
Two months of dryness after a really good Lent. I still show up every morning, but I honestly don't know if anyone is listening. How did you get through a season like this?
No profiles, no photos, no instant replies. Just two Catholics getting to know each other, one letter at a time.
In 1895 the seminarian Maurice Bellière asked the Carmel of Lisieux for a sister to pray for his vocation. Thérèse was chosen, and they wrote to each other until she died.
Letters that take two, four or seven days to arrive. No typing indicator, no rush. You write, you wait, you mean it.
A private book of prayer. Write with Scripture, with a photograph, with the great paintings of the Church, or at the end of a long day. Only you can read it.
One verse a day, arriving word by word.
A whole Gospel story, read slowly.
Bring a friend or a place you love into your prayer.
Five movements as the day darkens.
A great painting opens in the dark. Your eye travels across it, then draws close to one detail, with the Scripture behind it. Up to three paintings a week, and the ones you prayed with stay on your shelf.
Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing, c. 1606
Tired of typing, or praying on a walk? Tap the mic and speak. Your words appear on the page, and you can tidy them later.
St. Catherine of Siena dictated much of her writing. More than 380 of her letters survive.
The doors are open
The Feed, the Forum and the community are free and always will be. Plus opens the full Journal and lets you keep more letters in transit.
30 days free, then $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year. Prices in your currency on the App Store.
We need 12 beta testers to publish Epistula on Google Play. Use the email of the Google account on your Android phone, so we can invite you to the test.
A Catholic community app with a daily prompt and Feed, a Forum for real questions, pen pals and slow letters, and a private Journal with guided ways to pray and write.
Yes. The Feed, the Forum, Letters, pen pals and a simple Journal are free, and we will never charge for the company of others. Plus opens Visio Divina, Lectio Divina, the verse of the day, Pray with a photo and the Examen, and keeps more letters in transit. It starts with a 30-day free trial, and you can cancel any time in the App Store.
Practising Catholics from any country, vocation and stage of life, and anyone who comes with respect for the faith and the people who hold it. You must be 16 or older.
Only you. Your entries are encrypted on your phone before they leave it, so we cannot read them. Keep your password safe: if you lose it and every device you signed in on, your entries cannot be recovered.
You choose a pen name and the topics you love, then send a letter out to sea or answer one waiting on the tide. One reply seals a correspondence. Letters take a few days to arrive, and you can share your real name whenever you decide.
Not yet. Epistula is on iPhone today. To publish on Google Play we need 12 beta testers. Join the waitlist and tick the beta box if you'd like to help.