The Devout Library
A library for the devotional life
Articles and Scripture on the Christian faith — its practices, its seasons, and its words.
Articles
Essays and guides on the faith — its symbols, its prayers, and the words it keeps.
Christian Symbols
The meaning behind the enduring symbols of the Christian faith.
Read the article →Common Questions About Jesus
Straightforward answers to common questions about the life and person of Jesus Christ.
Read →English Bible Translations
A guide to the major English translations of the Bible and how they differ.
Read →Names of God and Jesus
The many names and titles of God and of Christ in Scripture, and what they mean.
Read →The Christian Cross
The history and symbolism of the cross, and a guide to its many forms.
Read →The Orders of Angels
The traditional nine orders of the angelic hierarchy, from seraphim to angels.
Read →The Rosary
What the rosary is, the prayers it holds, and how it is prayed.
Read →The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments — their text, their ordering, and their meaning.
Read →Bible verses by theme
Gathered passages for the seasons of a life — comfort, courage, hope, and more.
Voices of the tradition
Writers, preachers, and mystics whose words appear throughout Devout — from the Church Fathers to modern Christian voices.
The Voices
A directory of the people Devout draws on — their lives, their words, the traditions they belong to. Augustine to Bonhoeffer, gathered in one place.
Open the directory →Saints and synaxarion
A year of the Church's witnesses — apostles, Doctors, mystics, martyrs. Two calendars, each on a single day, returning each year.
The Saints — Roman calendar
The Roman calendar of saints, kept by the Catholic Church month by month — apostles, Doctors, Marian feasts.
Open the calendar →The Synaxarion — Eastern calendar
The Orthodox synaxarion — the Twelve Great Feasts, the Three Hierarchs, the Russian and Greek saints, every day of the year.
Open the synaxarion →Catechisms
The great teaching books of the Christian tradition — question and answer, learnt by heart and prayed.
The Daily Office
Morning and Evening Prayer per the 1662 Book of Common Prayer — today's psalms, this week's collect, and the unchanging shape of the office.
The Anglican Daily Office
A real prayable office from the 1662 BCP — opening, psalms appointed for today (30-day cycle), the Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer, this week's collect, and the dismissal. Morning and Evening Prayer.
Open the office →Wesley's sermons
The 44 Standard Sermons — the doctrinal corpus of Methodism, in John Wesley's own pastoral voice. Salvation by faith, the witness of the Spirit, Christian perfection, the catholic spirit.
John Wesley's 44 Standard Sermons
The doctrinal standards of the Methodist movement — each sermon with a summary and a representative passage. Read in sequence, they form a complete theology of the Christian life.
Open the sermons →Spurgeon's daily meditations
Selected entries from Charles Spurgeon's Morning and Evening (1869) — the "Prince of Preachers" in his daily pastoral voice. A Baptist devotional classic.
Selected meditations from Spurgeon
Each meditation begins with a verse from the King James Bible and unfolds a brief Christ-saturated reflection. Today's appears on your reflection page if your tradition is Baptist; all are openly browseable.
Open the meditations →Andrew Murray's daily meditations
A selection from Andrew Murray (1828–1917) — Dutch Reformed minister of South Africa, whose Spirit-centred writings on abiding, prayer, and humility became a foundational devotional voice for Pentecostal and Charismatic readers worldwide.
Selected meditations from Andrew Murray
Abide in Christ. With Christ in the school of prayer. The Spirit of Christ. Humility. The True Vine. Waiting on God. Today's appears on your reflection page if your tradition is Pentecostal or Charismatic; all are openly browseable.
Open the meditations →The Christian Prayer Book
A library of the classical prayers — the Lord's Prayer and the Creeds, the songs of Mary and Simeon, the Jesus Prayer and Anima Christi, Cranmer's collects, and the prayers of Augustine, Aquinas, Thérèse, Bonhoeffer. Public domain, gathered for use.
The Christian Prayer Book
The historic prayers of the Church, gathered across the traditions. Said by Christians for centuries — and now ready to be carried with you.
Open the prayer book →The Catholic Lectionary
The Sunday Mass readings of the Roman Catholic Church on the three-year cycle — Year A, B, C — together with the readings for the major feasts: Christmas, the Triduum, Easter, Pentecost, Christ the King, the Marian solemnities. From the Roman Missal.
The Sunday Mass readings
Year A — the year of Matthew — and the readings for the great feasts. Each Sunday: a first reading, a responsorial psalm with its refrain, an epistle, and a gospel.
Open the lectionary →The Orthodox Daily Lectionary
The daily readings of the Eastern Orthodox Church — a single annual cycle that turns around Pascha and the great Marian feasts. Apostolos and Gospel for the Twelve Great Feasts, the Sundays of Great Lent, Holy Week, the Paschal season, and the Sundays after Pentecost.
The Eastern daily readings
The Apostolos and Gospel for every Sunday and Great Feast in the Orthodox year — the same readings the Church has kept on the same day each year, century after century.
Open the lectionary →Bible translations
The histories of the major English translations — how each came to be, and how they differ.