Centering Prayer

I like that this App is helping me stay on track with a commitment to daily meditation. The choice of prayers and reflections at the beginning and end is also a nice touch. Maybe it's just me but the silence in the middle is a little too silent. I would prefer some sort of white noise. Then again, I should be working on my concentration and focus.

Thank you for creating this app, it has helped me to deepen my relationship with Chtist in a way I dis not know was possible. Very grateful! I really like all the resources and options for customizing your centering prayer time. I would like the option to chose the time period, for situations when my time is short. I like the gong sounds which my phone does not have for a custom timer to fit a smaller time period.

This app is rich in resources for contemplative prayer. Besides a timer, with a variety of bells, chants, & other sounds for beginning & ending, there are on-screen prayers from various sources to open & close your prayer time. You do have to set media volume in the system; you can't do it in-app. Other than that, it's perfect!

Great app for centering prayer practice. All of the customizations are great and that it blocks notifications from the phone is amazing! Use it everyday. Just remember to turn your ringer back down when you are done if you are someone like me who does not like all the sounds the phone makes.

If you have ever had trouble focusing on silence to enjoy the company of God, or are afraid of falling asleep, then this app is for you. With a choice of opening and closing prayers and sounds it helps you focus and removes the fear of sleeping. I recommend also reading the introductory book from the same organisation to get the most from the practice.

If the beginning sounds didn't end so abruptly instead of fading out, and if the ending sounds would fade IN, I would give 5 stars. Otherwise, this app is very nice. It's much better than just setting a timer, even when the timer has a pleasant sound. It's the best app I've tried so far. Thanks, y'all!

There are lots of opening prayers to choose from that I love. It keeps your phone silent so you can let go of all the distractions. An excellent resource to help you in your contemplative journey!

This app has everything thing that you need to assist you with your Centering Prayer life. It's very easy to use, flexible & pleasing to the eye. I also appreciate the Resource links. Thank you for the wonderful tool!

If your phone is always with you, so is your opportunity for meditation. Even as little as 10 minutes daily can make a difference. Let this app guide you, keep time for you, and silence incoming notifications while you pray.

With lives filled with noise and distraction, it seems counter-intuitive to use an app to quiet ourselves. Yet this app is a great way to begin your day (or become still at any time of day). Good variety of sounds and prayers and I'm glad also for smaller moments when I don't have the time for a more lengthy break.

Great for those who meditate or wish to learn Christian meditation. The only thing missing is a chart to record one's meditation sessions. I like the prayers at the beginning and end of each session. A function to automatically cycle through the prayers monthly would be nice.

I love how this app helps me to focus but it would be wonderful if things could be read to me so that I could stay focused instead of having to move things ahead manually at the beginning. Otherwise, very helpful.

Helps me enter into meditation. I love that you can adjust all of the settings. I wish I could have the option of playing the sounds longer. I also downloaded a white noise app in order to do that.

The only Suggestion I would have is for the prayers, psalms, etc to be read by another voice, so you can set up and start the app, and then close your eyes the whole way through

It's very good, just what I was looking for. One improvement suggestion: It would be great if there would be an option to automatically randomise the opening and closing prayer text, so that each prayer time would start and end with a different prayer. There are so many prayers to choose from, and I want to read them all.

Great app for its purpose. Love the ability to control the sensory aspects as well as adjusting the quiet time. I've used this app for 20 minutes or longer and as short as 5 minutes using the incremental minute adjustments. The variety of readings is also a big plus. I highly recommend this app.

Intuitive and easy to use. More than enough prayers to choose from as I am drawn more to the silence and less words all around. The bowl sounds are also quite good.

This app has been instrumental in helping me to reestablish a consistent prayer life. Even though I am not Catholic I appreciate and enjoy the liturgical worship format. I have recommended this app and wholeheartedly endorse it. May God richly bless the creators of this app, and the founders of Contemplative Outreach.

Excellent, it's been a great help in enriching my quiet time. It would be enhanced by an option for it to automatically rotate through sets of the opening and closing prayers or scriptures as well as the current option to have the same one repeatedly.

Works with no glitches. The timer helps me pray without the distraction of watching the clock. The variety of opening and closing prayers is sufficient and helpful. Thank you for this inspirational tool that uplifts my prayer life.

I get excited to use this app everyday. This app has been instrumental in facilitating a consistent centering prayer meditation habit.

I love this app. It really helps to center me, removing all of the extraneous thoughts and noise.

I have been using this app daily for just under a year. I've shared it with many of my friends and they now use it too. It provides the basics of a meditation app with a few bonus extras. I can choose an entrance and closing sound (or none) as well as an introduction and closing reading. Wonderful little app! Thank you to the developers, nicely done!

This app is a great support to practicing contemplation. You can choose inspiring quotes or scripture to settle you, you don't have to worry about time, and the app guides you gently out with sound and another prayer choice. There is also a brief reminder about the steps of centering prayer (good for beginners and experienced alike).

My only beef with this near perfect app is that I can't enter my own text for the beginning and end of my time otherwise it's great. Love it and Contemplative Outreach

absolutely love the best meditation app (and I've tried more than a few), esp for those using centering prayer but still good for any mediation technique - - - that was version 1.Now it's even better. It's still my go to.

It is quite helpful to my prayer life. The sounds need to be tweaked so that it ends smoothly rather than abrupt as they do now.

Love this app. It's simple to use, offers several choices for prayers if I need one, blocks incoming disturbances. Recommend it to all who practice centering.

It works well. I would prefer the opening prayers/passages assigned and automatically changed each time you open the app, rather than having to choose and change them yourself, but that's just personal preference.

I use this app every day for my periods of quiet prayer. It is very helpful in many ways from giving the basic teaching to the timer for my prayer period. I recommend this app.

Very good. Reduced by one star due to occasional spelling mistakes.

This app has been really helpful in my practice of Centering Prayer. It has worked well and I really enjoy the options offered and the tools to assist my growth. Highly recommended.

I've found this app to be very useful, and love it's organization: beginning and ending with Scripture to digest, and in between a time of silence to just be with God. Thank you for developing this app!

The customizable features of this app are excellent. Can be used for any Christian denomination as well as if you are spiritual but don't necessarily think of yourself as part of a Christian church. Wonderful addition to my prayer life.

This is a wonderful app. It has helped me settle down and center on what God says is true rather than on what my own mind thinks is true. I would love to have an option to meditate on a "verse of the day"... Like from the Bible app.

Simple to use. Lets me let go of control so I can assent to God's presence

Need to be able to paste my own scripture in.

This is just what I was looking for. Have moved from mindfulness into centering prayer and this is great. Would be even better if the opening and closing sounds didn't end abruptly and if the prayers were available on audio.

I've started using this app. I find it really helpful to stop and focus on God and His Word. However, I feel there is room for improvement. I would like to see the option of adding your own prayers/passages to reflect upon. I think that this would improve the app.

Excellent, simple app for your Centering Prayer practice. I appreciate the options for Scripture and/or words from Fr. Keating before and after the silence.