Painted portrait of St. Thérèse of Lisieux holding roses and a crucifix, glowing in candlelight — the Little Way app home screen art

The Catholic Prayer App of St. Thérèse

Pray before you scroll.

Lock the apps that pull you in. When one opens, a real soul’s intention is waiting — one Hail Mary, and a flower blooms for them. Pray for others, be prayed for: you’re never praying alone.

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Six seconds, start to finish

0:00You tap the app you always tap.
0:01The shield rises — a stranger’s real intention, in their own words: “Pray for my mom’s surgery tomorrow.”
0:03You pray one Hail Mary for her.
0:05A rose blooms in her bouquet — she’ll know someone stopped.
0:06The app opens.
“Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.”
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
The Prayer Shield

Lock your apps
behind a prayer

Choose the apps that pull on you most. When one opens, the shield rises with a real intention from the Chapel — a stranger who asked for prayer, or a soul you’re carrying yourself. One Hail Mary, and the door opens.

No streaks. No AI prayers. The scroll becomes a small act of love.

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Chapel of Intercession — 479 offerings today, a soul just entered asking for prayer
Chapel of Intercession

Someone is asking
for prayer right now

Real intentions from real people — a mother’s surgery, a friend who left the Church, an unborn child. Offer a flower, light a candle at a shrine, and they’ll see that someone stopped.

And when you ask, the community carries you — people here pray one another back by name.

“I want to spend my heaven doing good on earth.”

Carried in Prayer

Someone prayed
for you today

When you ask, this card finds you: who stopped for you, and what they offered — a Rosary, a candle, a hidden sacrifice. One tap, and you pray them back by name.

Give a prayer, receive a prayer. Most prayers here are prayed back.

Treasures in Heaven

Find out that people
actually showed up

Asking for prayer is vulnerable. Then the bouquet blooms, and you see every prayer that was offered — real people, pausing their day for yours, each flower recorded and kept.

When your own bouquet is full, offer it for the one you love. Nothing you gave is lost.

“How often have I thought that I may owe all the graces I have received to the prayers of a person who begged them from God for me, and whom I shall know only in heaven.”

Offer a flower — Prayer, Rosary, Sacrifice, Act of Love, Gratitude, Joy — each a glowing painted flower
Gather Bouquets

Every small act
becomes a flower

A prayer whispered in traffic. A sacrifice no one noticed. A moment of patience that cost you everything. Each one becomes a flower in your spiritual bouquet.

Seven flowers — each with its own meaning rooted in Thérèse’s writings. A rosary becomes a rose. A hidden sacrifice, a closed bud. An act of charity, a heart bloom.

“Jesus deigned to teach me this mystery. He set before me the book of nature; I understood how all the flowers He has created are beautiful.”

Your Daily Companion

A spiritual life,
beautifully simple

Today’s Little Way meets you when you open the app: a virtue to live, a small act of love named in last night’s examen, and the people you’ve promised to carry. A daily reading from Thérèse waits beside today’s Gospel.

Each soul gets their own painted bouquet, gathering one prayer at a time.

“I will look for some means of going to heaven by a little way which is very short and very straight.”

Nightly examen with virtue focus
Nightly Examen

End each day
in God’s presence

A gentle, Thérèsian examen that takes just a few minutes. Review your day. Name your gratitude. Choose the virtue God is inviting you to grow in.

No streaks to keep, no score to protect — just showing up with empty hands, and letting God see every small flower.

Carrying — bouquets for the people you love, your gardens, and the Chapel of Intercession
Pray Together

Your little Carmel

Share a prayer intention with anyone — even people who don’t have the app. They tap “I’m praying too,” and you watch the wall fill with people carrying your intention.

Create a prayer garden with your family, parish, or friends — the way Thérèse prayed with her sisters at Carmel. Plus: a novena to St. Thérèse, adopt a priest for 30 days, and journal the roses she sends.

“I understood that the Church had a Heart and that this Heart was burning with Love.”

Also inside Little Way

The Rosary — a rose for every mystery Daily Latin Mass propers The Story of a Soul library Sacred music Liturgical themes Cloud backup
Apple Watch

Every moment
is an offering

The kind word you chose at lunch. The patience that cost you everything in traffic. The prayer you whispered between meetings. Catch each small act the moment it happens — right from your wrist.

Little Way on Apple Watch — offer a flower from your wrist
“I wish to profit by the smallest actions, and to do them for Love.” St. Thérèse of Lisieux

Small acts of love,
offered together.

Thérèse didn’t live the Little Way alone. She lived it in community — twenty sisters at the Carmel of Lisieux, each offering hidden acts of love for one another. Your Prayer Garden is your little Carmel. The Chapel of Intercession is where strangers become companions in prayer.

Prayers That Bloomed

Heaven has been busy.

“After my death I will let fall a shower of roses.” — St. Thérèse of Lisieux

Phoebe, 9 years old

Healing from a horse riding accident

“She even rode her bike yesterday! Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for being part of her healing journey. May God reward you in this life and in the next for your generous and prayerful hearts!”

✿ 32 souls carried this prayer

Aaron

That my brother may begin his journey with the Church

“My brother is speaking with the Deacon of our parish today to begin OCIA and move toward his confirmation! Thank you for all your prayers and little gifts!”

✿ 30 souls carried this prayer

Traci

Returning to her daily Rosary

“Your prayers helped; I’m praying the Rosary again. I haven’t completed a full week yet, but I know that I will. Thank you.”

✿ 20 souls carried this prayer

From the Prayers That Bloomed wall inside Little Way — shared as they appear in the app.

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9 Days

Novena to
St. Thérèse

Nine days of prayer with the Little Flower. The most beautiful first step.

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14 Days

Morning Offering
in 14 Days

Learn the prayers, build the habit, and discover the daily rhythm that changes everything.

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80 Days

Story of a Soul
Reading Plan

Thérèse’s autobiography in 80 daily passages with reflection prompts.

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