EWTN

I find EWTN very helpful, informative and inspirational and why is that? Because they know what goes on in the Catholic faith and community across the country and they also know about what goes on with the current Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV. And in times of turmoil and chaos and uncertainty, I find their rosary videos very helpful and inspiring and the online mass as well. And when the COVID pandemic started in March 2020 and so on, it was almost impossible for any Catholic like myself to attend mass in person at any Catholic Church but thanks to EWTN, their online streaming mass was very helpful and useful. But years later, I was able to attend mass in person again and there was no more danger. And a couple of times I had COVID more than once and I couldn’t attend Catholic mass but EWTN was able to let me watch their online mass. But once I made a full recovery from COVID, I was able to attend mass again. So I give a lot of credit to the people who work for EWTN and make it a possibility for Catholics to watch mass and any devotions. So my hope is that they’ll continue on with the good work by keeping EWTN to work in the future. Not just for me, but for my nephew and my friends from Crossroads for Christ and Knights of Columbus.

I don’t recall now when I started using the EWTN App. It is something I use literally from sunrise to sunset. I begin every morning reading the daily Mass scripture readings, and I close my day using one of the Rosaries to accompany my prayer. I feel like I’m part of a group joining my prayers with the ones in the sanctuary at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery. I listen to EWTN Radio using the EWTN App on my television. Just recently I’ve been doing Eucharistic Adoration through the EWTN App on my television, should I not be able to attend to my regular Holy Hour in our cities’ Perpetual Adoration Chapel. I’m currently writing a Primer for neophyte Catholics, and I do with Jesus’s supervision with Adoration through the EWTN App. I even use the treasury of on-demand programming through the App either on my phone or on my television. And occasionally, I’ve used the App to access EWTN Radio in my car when I’m unable to get the radio signal when I’m out driving. Using the App has continued to educate me as a Catholic, gives me very fair and balanced reporting on the events of the nation and the world, has bolstered and encouraged my prayer life, and I really don’t know what I would do without it. In all fairness to the other quality Catholic Apps that are available, and I have and do use 3-4 of those, the foundation of many life - outside the Mass and Holy Mother Church - is the EWTN App. I depend upon it, and I’m always recommending it to others.

Since posting the previous review, I have had a much better experience. The performance of the app is very consistent and unless I’m in an area with poor signal the audio on demand content loads without much delay. I can’t recall if there was an app update sense my first review but the EWTN app is excellent. Absolutely love EWTN and all of he great services they provide especially via the app. I I would have addressed the following via web developer link if such one worked/existed on the app. Please note I also have the most recent version of iOS (14.3) and as of this review. The only issue related to the mobile app is that those with limited internet access (ex poor cell signal or low bandwidth) may find the change to have one icon on the app’s home page for the On Demand content versus the previous separate ‘audio’ and ‘video’ icons to present performance issues in the loading of the list of available content. Basically if you want just audio or video or catalog content separately you will have to wait much longer for the page to load. I experienced a noticeable increase in time to load content and this despite having 2-3 bars of LTE signal. Additionally I have found the app may unexpectedly close when in the On Demand page.