The Listen room

A human voice. Never a generated one.

Every track in Orthros is read by a person, over chant that was commissioned for it, not assembled by a model. Where the Church is heard, she is heard in a human voice, because that is how the faith has always been handed on: mouth to ear, one soul to another.

Orthros+ is the recorded voice, and the threads between everything.

The readings are being recorded now. Every text below is complete and free to read today; the recordings are coming soon.

WHAT IS INSIDE

The greats and the desert Fathers, the martyrs, the American saints, and the women of the Kingdom; every parable of the Lord and every Sunday Gospel of the year; the Creed opened article by article, the Lord’s Prayer in its eight petitions, the miracles, the teaching Sundays, and the days of Pascha. Every reading is word-for-word Scripture.

THE SHAPE OF A TRACK

1. IThe Life, or the GospelRead word for word, the Life of the saint, or the parable in Scripture itself.
2. IIOpened by the FathersHow the Church has heard this passage, the reading you would be given from the ambo.
3. IIIThe prayer, word for wordSo you can pray along, not merely listen, the words already on your lips.
4. IVKept silence, then your parishA held pause, not dead air. And every track ends by pointing you back to the church.

Chant beneath the readings

Under every reading rests a bed of chant, commissioned, authentically Orthodox, tuned to the season and the tone. And when a hymn is sung in full, the app says the truest thing it can: this is sung, entire, at your parish, go and hear it live.

A library, not a feed

No queue, no autoplay, nothing counting you. You choose what to hear, and when it ends, it ends. Download for the road, set a sleep timer for the night, carry it in the car and on your wrist, and let the liturgical calendar quietly surface what the season is keeping.

• Downloads & offline listening
• A sleep timer
• iPhone, iPad & Mac
• Surfaced by the calendar

The free listening set

The Jesus Prayer · St Antony · St Herman · the Publican · the Prodigal · Zacchaeus · the Last Judgment · Forgiveness Sunday · Lazarus Saturday · the Good Shepherd · and seasonal rotations

About a dozen tracks are free to everyone, the on-ramps into the life of prayer. And every Life and parable stays readable, free, whether or not you ever press play.