LRD 1.5.22

The Liturgical Resource Development (LRD) application offers a comprehensive collection of liturgical texts and rites from the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. With its user-friendly interface, the LRD app conveniently provides prayers tailored to the current day and hour through the "Pray Now" feature. Users can enhance their experience by enabling a background audio option that accompanies the daily prayers. The app also grants users control over their preferences, including settings such as "Do Not Disturb" and "Night Mode Prayer Screen."

The LRD app offers intuitive gestures that enhance usability, such as pinch to zoom for adjusting prayer text size, back swipe navigation for smooth browsing, and portrait/landscape views with an automatic fullscreen mode. Its navigational options make it effortless for users to switch between various resources seamlessly.

The available resources within the LRD app are as follows:

• Shehimo: Book of Common Prayer
• The Fast of Nineveh: Hours of Prayer for Nineveh Fast
• Great Lent: Daily Prayers for the Great Lent
• Holy Week: Prayers for Holy Week
• Holy Qurbono (including Qyomtho & Sleebo Vespers/Matins, Liturgical Year Hymns)
• Complete Bible (RSV)
• Liturgical Calendar with Lectionary
• Bookmarking feature for Bible chapters and Prayers

In addition, the LRD app serves as a centralized hub for other valuable resources, including educational videos, social media updates, and available publications. Upcoming features will include Notifications & Reminders and Search functionality.

For further information about the LRD app, please visit: http://ds-wa.org/about-liturgical-resource-development.html

To provide comments or ask questions, please reach out to us at LRD@ds-wa.org.

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