Vigilemus
let us keep watch
Catholic daily prayer — the Mass readings, the Little Office of Our Lady,
the prayers of the Church, and the Fathers. Every text on your device; nothing collected.
Catholic daily prayer — the Mass readings, the Little Office of Our Lady,
the prayers of the Church, and the Fathers. Every text on your device; nothing collected.
“What? Could you not watch one hour with me? Watch ye, and pray that ye enter not into temptation.” Matthew 26:40–41, Douay-Rheims
Vigilemus is Latin for “let us keep watch.” In Gethsemane, on the night before He suffered, Our Lord asked His disciples to watch and pray — vigilate et orate. Down the centuries the Church has kept that watch, praying through the hours of the day: Matins before dawn, Lauds at daybreak, the little hours through the working day, Vespers at evening, Compline before sleep.
Vigilemus is that answer in one word — the same “let us” the Church uses whenever the priest says Oremus, “let us pray.” Not a command, but an invitation: let us keep watch together.
The Epistle and Gospel of the day from the Roman Missal of 1962, in the Douay-Rheims — with the Church Fathers’ commentary on the day’s Gospel from the Catena Aurea.
The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary — Matins through Compline, season-aware — read it, or listen: every hour narrated, part by part.
The common prayers of the Church, complete with their rubrics — when to bow, when to genuflect, when to strike the breast.
A calendar-aware novena tracker that schedules each novena to lead up to its feast, with litanies and seasonal devotions.
All twenty mysteries. The day’s set is announced and prayed aloud as you would pray it — the mystery named, then the decade, down to the Fatima Prayer.
The whole Douay-Rheims Bible, the full Catena Aurea, spiritual readings, and search across everything.
Citations are tappable wherever they appear — from a prayer, a psalm, or a Father’s homily straight to the sacred page.
Every text comes from the Church’s own historic prayer books, breviaries, and translations — each in the public domain or in free devotional use, and each one named. Scripture and the prayers, word for word.
Building on public-domain texts is a deliberate choice: it lets the whole of this reach you without licensing standing in the way, and it means every word can be traced to a named, historic source you can check for yourself.
Every text in Vigilemus lives on your device and works offline. Audio for the Hours and the Rosary streams on demand from our server — nothing more. No account, no analytics, no advertising, nothing collected — your prayer life is between you and God.