Supper at Emmaus, by Caravaggio: Christ blesses the bread before two astonished disciples.
Caravaggio · 1602
Catholic formation app

The sanctification of ordinary life.

Apologetics with sources, lives of the saints, the Bible, prayer and the classics of spirituality. The depth of a good Catholic library, in your pocket.

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Your faith deserves more than a story.

Lumen gathers in one place what is usually scattered across dozens of books and channels: answers to objections to the faith, with sources; the lives of the saints told seriously; the study of the Bible and of Church history; and a rule of prayer for the whole day. Faithful to the Magisterium, with real depth.

Four fronts, one formation.

Each section is a complete course, with cited sources and the paintings of the masters for company.

The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament, fresco by Raphael.
Raphael · 1509-10
Defense of the faith

Reason for Hope

When someone asks “where is that in the Bible?”, know what to say. The most common objections to the Catholic faith, answered with Scripture and the Church Fathers.

Layered apologetics →
The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, by the van Eyck brothers.
van Eyck · 1432
Masters of the faith

Lives of the Saints

Holiness is not a starting point; it is a destination. Real biographies, shot through with grace: the context, the drama of conversion and what each saint teaches today.

Thirty lives, from Augustine to Carlo Acutis →
Folio of the Codex Sinaiticus, a 4th-century Greek manuscript.
Codex Sinaiticus · 4th c.
Study

Bible and History

The whole Bible, with reading journeys one day at a time, a map of its characters, and the history of the Church from Christ to the Middle Ages, with primary sources.

Evidence for the historical Christ →
Christ in Gethsemane consoled by an angel, by Carl Bloch.
Bloch · 1879
Interior life

Prayer and Combat

A rule of life for the whole day, the daily liturgy, the examination of conscience, and answers from tradition for the hours when faith is put to the test.

Spiritual combat →

What sets us apart

Real depth
Every objection gets a layered answer, with the sources cited. No sound bites.
All in one app
Apologetics, saints, Bible, Church history, prayer and spiritual reading, together.
Faithful to tradition
Aligned with the Magisterium, in a serious and reverent tone. The rigor of a Benedict XVI, not sentimentality.
Sacred beauty
Classical painting, a noble palette, liturgical typography. Opening Lumen is like stepping into a cathedral.
Rule of life

A whole day ordered to God.

From morning prayer to the examination of conscience, Lumen follows the hours of the day with discreet reminders and brief missions. Three minutes at a time, every day.

Spiritual reading

The classics, narrated.

The works that formed saints, to read or to listen to: ten unabridged titles as audiobooks, carefully narrated, with the text at hand to follow along.

  • The Imitation of ChristThomas à Kempis
  • ConfessionsSaint Augustine
  • The Interior CastleSaint Teresa of Ávila
  • The WaySaint Josemaría Escrivá
  • Treatise on the Love of GodSaint Francis de Sales
  • Abandonment to Divine ProvidenceJ.-P. de Caussade

and many more.

Christ Pantocrator, mosaic from Cefalù Cathedral.
Ego sum lux mundi.John 8:12
Quero ser avisado do lançamento
Cefalù · c. 1145