St. Thérèse of Lisieux holding roses and a crucifix

A Catholic app in the little way of St. Thérèse

Pray for strangers. They pray for you.

Pray a Hail Mary for someone who asked, and a rose blooms in their bouquet. Offer a little fast or a kindness for someone you love. Keep the Morning Offering, the Angelus and the Examen, each one prayed for others.

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“After my death I will let fall a shower of roses.”
St. Thérèse of LisieuxStory of a Soul, Epilogue (tr. Taylor, 1912)

Little Way 2.0

Small things done with great love, for someone by name

Little Way is for loving others through prayer and small sacrifices. Here is what you do in it.

The Chapel of Intercession

Someone is asking for prayer right now

The Chapel holds real intentions from people around the world: a mother before surgery, a marriage in trouble, a baby on the way. Pray a Hail Mary for one, and it blooms as a flower in their bouquet.

Ask for prayer for someone you love, and the whole Chapel prays.

Bear ye one another's burdens; and so you shall fulfill the law of Christ.Galatians 6:2, Douay-Rheims
The Chapel: an intention for Linus, to find his way back to the Church, at the shrine of St. Thérèse, with a button to pray for him

Your altar

When they pray for you in return

When someone you prayed for prays for you in return, it comes home to your own altar as a gift. Everyone who prayed for you is one Hail Mary away.

pray one for another, that you may be saved.James 5:16, Douay-Rheims
Your altar under Mignard's Virgin of the Grapes: when someone you prayed for prays for you in return, it comes home here. Five since Friday.

Offer something for someone

A little fast, for someone by name

Give up sweets for a few hours, or complaining for the afternoon, and offer it for a soul in the Chapel or for someone you love. Each little fast is kept on your honour and laid in their bouquet.

I will let no tiny sacrifice pass, no look, no word. I wish to profit by the smallest actions, and to do them for Love.St. Thérèse, Story of a Soul, ch. XI (tr. Taylor, 1912)
A little fast: I'll fast from sweets for Anna and others from the Chapel, every Friday, on my honour

Love at home, on purpose

A kindness kept for someone

Choose small kindnesses for the people you live with and offer them to Our Lord for them: a kiss when you come home, your full attention at dinner, a decade of the Rosary prayed together, a blessing at bedtime for your children, a call to your mother.

Keep one today, or every week.

A kindness: I'll give a kiss when I come home to Michael, sometime today
The Angelus by Jean-François Millet: two farm workers stand with heads bowed in a field at dusk as the church bell rings
Jean-François Millet, The Angelus, 1857–59. Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Your day, prayed for others

The Morning Offering, the Angelus, the Examen

Set the times you keep with Our Lord, each one carried for the people you love: the Morning Offering when you wake, the Angelus at noon, a Rosary in the evening, the Examen before sleep. Little Way rings at each time and opens the prayer.

If you like, the apps you choose can pause during these times.

Pausing apps uses Screen Time. It is optional and comes with Premium.

The Schedule: a fast from sweets, a kindness for Michael, the Morning Offering at 7, the Angelus at noon, the Rosary at 8 and the Examen at 9
The Angelus, from the Raccolta, opened at noon

The Inner Room

Pray inside the Gospel

A school of mental prayer in seven doors, and Gospel scenes to pray from inside the story, carrying the people you love. End the day with Compline, the Church's night prayer.

Come apart into a desert place, and rest a little.Mark 6:31, Douay-Rheims
The Inner Room at Cana: And Jesus saith to her, Woman, what is that to me and to thee? John 2:4–5

Sacred art, made by hand

Each shrine is kept by a real work of art

The shrines in the Chapel hold sacred art made by human hands: old masters such as Murillo, Dolci and Bloch, and living Catholic artists who share their work with the Chapel. Each work is credited by name.

La Dolorosa by Murillo: Our Lady of Sorrows looking up, in tears
La DolorosaBartolomé Esteban Murillo, c. 1660–70. Museo del Prado, Madrid
Christ and Child by Carl Bloch: Our Lord holding a little child
Christ and ChildCarl Bloch, 1873. St. Nicholas Church, Holbæk
Mater Dolorosa by Carlo Dolci: Our Lady of Sorrows in a blue mantle
Mater DolorosaCarlo Dolci, c. 1655. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Every day

Prayers that bloomed

Answered prayers, in their own words

From the Prayers That Bloomed wall inside Little Way, as they appear in the app.

Phoebe, 9 years old

Healing from a horse riding accident

“She even rode her bike yesterday! Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for being part of her healing journey. May God reward you in this life and in the next for your generous and prayerful hearts!”

32 souls carried this prayer

Aaron

That my brother may begin his journey with the Church

“My brother is speaking with the Deacon of our parish today to begin OCIA and move toward his confirmation! Thank you for all your prayers and little gifts!”

30 souls carried this prayer

Traci

Returning to her daily Rosary

“Your prayers helped; I’m praying the Rosary again. I haven’t completed a full week yet, but I know that I will. Thank you.”

20 souls carried this prayer

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“Love the beautiful visuals, the way it makes me slow down and the tools it provides for connecting with the Lord in prayer from morning to night.”
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9 days

Novena to St. Thérèse

Nine days of prayer with the Little Flower.

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14 days

The Morning Offering

Learn the prayer and keep it each morning for two weeks.

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80 days

Story of a Soul

Thérèse’s autobiography in 80 daily passages.

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