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Barb Szyszkiewicz introduces the Magnificat Advent Companion App, a convenient way to deepen your prayer throughout the season. Win free access to this app!

The Magnificat companion apps for Lent and Advent are always excellent seasonal prayer aids. The 2025 Magnificat Advent Companion app is now available, and it's loaded with daily prayer features and bonus content. The app costs only $3.99 and is available in your favorite app store, for both iOS and Android devices. Read on to find out how you can win free access to this excellent app.
 

Why use an app for prayer?

Precisely because your phone goes where you go — and this way, you bring your prayers with you. When you get a few quiet moments this Advent, you can pull up the Magnificat Advent Companion app on your phone and spend the time praying instead of scrolling on social media.  
 
Accessing the Magnificat resources through an app also allows you to select the size of the type for the readings and prayers, and you can even set reminders for Morning, Evening, and Night prayer. 
 

Here's what you get in the 2025 Magnificat Advent Companion:

Daily features:

  • Morning, Evening, and Night Prayer for each day, based on the Liturgy of the Hours
  • Mass readings and prayers for each day
  • Daily Advent meditations by a variety of Catholic authors

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Don't miss these extras:

  • Advent chants with audio
  • Blessings for your Advent wreath, Nativity, and Christmas tree
  • O Antiphon prayers (December 17-23)
  • Advent Stations (a set of seven meditations on Old Testament events that reveal how God prepared the world for the coming of the Savior)
  • Lyrics to traditional Christmas carols
  • The Order of Mass, including all four Eucharistic Prayers
  • Spiritual Communion Prayer
  • and more

My favorite extra feature in this app is one you might overlook, thinking it's not for you. There's an Advent Penance Service included. I almost didn't look at it, as I am not a parish priest planning a penance service. But this penance service can be read by an individual as a beautiful preparation for Confession, at any time during the Advent season. If you don't have a lot of time, skip to the Examination of Conscience that is in the penance service.

I greatly enjoyed the essay, "Envisioning Bethlehem: A Czech Tradition" that explains the Czech custom of constructing elaborate (sometimes animated) Nativity dioramas, usually including a number of figures of ordinary people bringing or preparing special gifts for the Christ Child. 

The print edition of the Magnificat Advent Companion has already sold out, but this app allows you to use all the content included in that edition.
 
You can learn more about Magnificat's resources at US.Magnificat.net.
 

Win a Free Access Code to This App

Catholic Mom has a limited number of free access codes to the Magnificat Advent Companion app to give away! To enter, please leave a comment below, telling us whether you'd need iOS or Android access. Winners will be contacted via email. 

 
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Copyright 2025 Barb Szyszkiewicz
Images: (top, bottom) Canva; (center) courtesy of Magnificat Advent Companion, all rights reserved.

About the Author

Barb Szyszkiewicz

Barb Szyszkiewicz

Barb Szyszkiewicz, senior editor at CatholicMom.com, is a wife, mom of 3 young adults, and a Secular Franciscan. Barb enjoys writing, cooking, and reading, and is a music minister at her parish. Find her blog at FranciscanMom and her family’s favorite recipes with nutrition information at Cook and Count. Barb is the author of The Handy Little Guide to Prayer and The Handy Little Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours, available from Our Sunday Visitor.