Manna is a daily Christian prayer app. One prayer a day, no ads, no required account.https://www.the-manna.app/enhttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/glory-be-prayer/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/glory-be-prayer/The Glory Be prayer: the two English forms, what each one keeps and drops, its scriptural roots, and why it is the one prayer you are not in.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/with-none-of-me-in-it/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/with-none-of-me-in-it/I speed up in exactly the place where there is nothing to gain. What I found in the silence after the Glory Be, and it does not suit me.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/how-to-pray-the-rosary/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/how-to-pray-the-rosary/How to pray the rosary: what the beads are for, the order of the prayers, the four sets of mysteries, and what to do when you lose count.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-other-conversation/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-other-conversation/Somewhere in the second decade I notice I am talking to someone who is not in the room. And it is always the same people.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/hail-mary-prayer/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/hail-mary-prayer/The Hail Mary prayer word by word: the three verses of Luke it quotes, the name that cuts it in half, and the single request it contains.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-we-i-say-alone/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-we-i-say-alone/"Pray for us sinners." There is nobody in the kitchen, and I am speaking in the plural. I can't tell whether that is company or a constraint.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/psalm-4/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/psalm-4/Reading Psalm 4 verse by verse: the evening psalm, the order of verse 4 where stillness comes second, and the sleep of the last verse.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-silence-i-am-good-at/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-silence-i-am-good-at/My evening prayer is a silence, and I thought I was good at it. Psalm 4 puts the searching before the stillness, and I never did that half.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-anger/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-anger/The Bible does not forbid anger: it gives it a delay and a deadline. What Ephesians 4:26 actually says, and a prayer for the minute it rises.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-place-where-i-allow-it/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-place-where-i-allow-it/I hold it all day, and it comes out at night, on the people who will not make me pay for it. My patience picks its moments very well.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/the-lords-prayer/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/the-lords-prayer/Seven petitions said in fifteen seconds. The text, the order we would not have chosen, the clause we put on ourselves, and the words English argues over.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-order-i-would-not-have-chosen/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-order-i-would-not-have-chosen/I wrote down the first sentence of my prayers for six days. Six times out of six, it was the fourth petition of the Lord's Prayer.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/anointing-of-the-sick/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/anointing-of-the-sick/Many still confuse it with last rites and wait far too long. What the sacrament actually is, what happens, and when to ask for it.Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-superstition-i-still-have/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-superstition-i-still-have/I pray that everything goes well so I don't have to name the rest, as if saying it might invite it. What my vague prayer is really protecting.Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/why-catholics-pray-to-mary/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/why-catholics-pray-to-mary/Is praying to Mary praying to someone other than God? What the Hail Mary actually says, where its words come from, and what it asks her to do.Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/act-of-contrition/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/act-of-contrition/The Act of Contrition exists in several versions. The most common text, what it actually says, and how to pray it even outside confession.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/not-yet/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/not-yet/What I keep putting off with God, telling myself it isn't the moment yet. Augustine prayed the same way, and knew it.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/psalm-91/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/psalm-91/Reading Psalm 91 verse by verse: the shelter, the feathers, the angels, and the promise in the last verses that is not the one we expect.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-sentence-i-know-by-heart/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-sentence-i-know-by-heart/I repeat the same line whenever I have no head left for praying. I did not choose it, and I do not know whether it counts.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/the-lord-bless-you-and-keep-you/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/the-lord-bless-you-and-keep-you/The oldest blessing in the Bible, dictated word for word in Numbers 6. What it asks for, what it does not promise, and how to say it over someone.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/saying-it-out-loud/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/saying-it-out-loud/Blessing someone in my head costs me nothing. Saying it to their face, I failed — and I think I know why.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/what-does-it-mean-to-bless/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/what-does-it-mean-to-bless/To bless means to speak well of — not a vague wish, not a feeling. What the word means in the Bible, and what saying it actually commits you to.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-comfortable-verses/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-comfortable-verses/I listed the verses that come to me unbidden. They have one thing in common, and the line immediately after names the price.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/praying-for-someone-who-hurt-you/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/praying-for-someone-who-hurt-you/Praying for someone who hurt you is not the same as forgiving them. A prayer, Matthew 5:44, and what this asks — and does not ask — of you.Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-name-i-do-not-say/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-name-i-do-not-say/There is a name I have never written on my list of intentions. It isn't an oversight, and Psalm 139 showed me what I was really protecting.Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-before-surgery/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-before-surgery/A date on the paperwork, a night to get through, hours you will not see. A prayer before surgery, for the evening before and for the morning itself.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-list-of-names/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-list-of-names/My list of intentions has turned into an inventory I recite without feeling anything. A line from Isaiah showed me what it is, and never was.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-someone-in-the-hospital/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-someone-in-the-hospital/Someone you love is in the hospital and you are waiting outside. A prayer for someone in the hospital, and words for the days with no news.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-corridor/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-corridor/I spent more time in the corridor than in the room. A line from Matthew showed me what I was really after when I go to visit someone.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-before-a-job-interview/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-before-a-job-interview/A prayer before a job interview does not negotiate the outcome. It asks to walk whole into a room where you will be judged on very little.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-two-sentences-at-night/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-two-sentences-at-night/For a few weeks now my evening prayer has been two sentences. What I hand over, and what I did not do. The second one arrived much later.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-to-find-a-job/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-to-find-a-job/A prayer to find a job does not order the answer in. It asks for the strength to keep searching without reducing your worth to the result.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-inbox-i-keep-refreshing/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-inbox-i-keep-refreshing/I am waiting for an answer. I refresh my inbox twenty times a day, and I have finally understood what that gesture does to my praying.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-to-forgive-someone/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-to-forgive-someone/Forgiving someone who never apologised is not excusing them. A prayer for a grudge that lasts, a verse from Mark, and one concrete step.Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/page-four/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/page-four/I buy a new notebook instead of reopening the old one. Always at the same page, the fourth. What I have finally understood about that habit.Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-work/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-work/A prayer for work doesn't ask for an easy day. It hands God the hours, the tiredness and the work of your hands, before the day takes over.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-verse-i-skip/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-verse-i-skip/There is one line of Psalm 103 I have been skipping for months. I eventually understood that the psalm is not the one with the problem.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/psalm-23/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/psalm-23/Reading Psalm 23 verse by verse: the shepherd, the green pastures, the valley of the shadow, the table set before you. A prayerful reading.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-hour-i-did-not-fill/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-hour-i-did-not-fill/I kept one hour empty, on purpose. I did not expect doing nothing to take such effort, or the tiredness to arrive afterwards.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-journal/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-journal/Keeping a prayer journal: what it is for, what to write, how to stay with it. A verse, a prayer to open it, one concrete gesture for today.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-space-of-one-breath/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-space-of-one-breath/I started taking one breath before answering. What I am finding is that the next sentence is not softer: it is a different sentence.Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-vacation/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-vacation/A prayer for vacation: to receive rest instead of filling it. A verse from the Gospel, a short reflection, and one concrete gesture for today.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/naming-three-things/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/naming-three-things/For a week I have named three things every evening. What I did not see coming is that the exercise started to bleed into my days.Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-forgiveness/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-forgiveness/A prayer for forgiveness, for coming back to God without preparing your defence: what confession really changes, a verse from John's letter, one gesture.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-version-where-i-am-right/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-version-where-i-am-right/I have been rewriting an apology for three days. Each version comes off a little better — and drifts a little further from what I meant to say.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-safe-travel/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-safe-travel/A prayer for safe travel, for the moment of leaving: what you leave, what you take, the road entrusted — with a verse from Genesis and one gesture at the door.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-room-that-is-not-mine/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-room-that-is-not-mine/Away from home, my morning prayer collapses. I finally understood that what was missing was not faith, but the armchair.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-inner-peace/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-inner-peace/A prayer for inner peace when anxiety tightens: not forcing calm, but setting the worry down, with a verse from Paul and one concrete practice.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/lifting-my-eyes/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/lifting-my-eyes/A psalm begins with a gesture I had never really made: lifting my eyes. One morning I tried it, for real. It shifted something.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/psalm-121/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/psalm-121/Reading Psalm 121 verse by verse: the song of the keeper who watches your going out and your coming in, and who never sleeps. A prayerful reading.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/three-in-the-morning/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/three-in-the-morning/I wake at three and fight to get back to sleep. One verse taught me to do the opposite: stay awake a moment, with the One who was awake already.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-protection/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-protection/A prayer for protection is not a talisman: it is a change of keeper. Placing yourself and those you love in God's keeping, with a psalm.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-night-workshop/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-night-workshop/Our prayers are prepared while everyone sleeps. For a long time it troubled me. Then I reread how the manna came: by night, with no witness.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/gratitude-prayer/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/gratitude-prayer/A gratitude prayer doesn't list your blessings — it teaches you to see. How to thank God in the evening, even on the dry days.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-three-seconds/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-three-seconds/One evening I counted: between seeing and scrolling on, barely three seconds remain. That is where thank you, or sliding past, is decided.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-the-sick/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-for-the-sick/A prayer for the sick does not command healing — it entrusts. How to pray for someone you love, at the bedside or far away, without knowing the outcome.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-monochrome/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-monochrome/I long believed a prayer app had to add. One prayer from the corpus taught me the opposite: take away, to leave room.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/night-prayer/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/night-prayer/A prayer for the night, just before sleep: handing God what isn't settled, when the day won't let itself be let go.Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-set-table/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-set-table/This week, a prayer stopped me on an image from Psalm 23 I had long avoided: a table set in the presence of what threatens.Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/christian-prayer/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/christian-prayer/Christian prayer is a relationship, not a technique. Its main forms, how to begin, how to keep going each day, and how to pray for others.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-in-hardship/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-in-hardship/A prayer in hard times need not be beautiful or composed. How to pray when distress tightens and the words no longer come.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-prayer-i-keep-putting-off/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-prayer-i-keep-putting-off/There is a prayer I know I should pray, and every day I put it off until tomorrow. A journal of a delay I am only beginning to look in the face.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/daily-prayer/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/daily-prayer/Daily prayer does not rest on willpower alone. What really helps: a set meeting, a rhythm you receive, and the right to begin again.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/evening-prayer/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/evening-prayer/In the evening, prayer rereads the day: what was given, what weighed. A simple frame to end the day in peace.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/how-to-pray/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/how-to-pray/You don't need to know how to pray to begin. A simple path: stop, say what is there, listen. No complicated method.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/morning-prayer/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/morning-prayer/A short morning prayer, before the day takes over. Why this moment helps, a complete prayer, and words to begin with.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/manna-in-the-bible/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/manna-in-the-bible/In the desert, manna was given each day, never in advance. What this story from Exodus says about trust, and about prayer.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/christian-prayer-app/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/christian-prayer-app/What a Christian prayer app can and cannot do for you. The criteria that matter: sobriety, silence, respect for your inner life.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/praying-for-a-loved-one/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/praying-for-a-loved-one/To pray for someone is to carry them — no magic formula. How to pray for a loved one, even from afar, even without knowing what to say.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-same-hand/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-same-hand/The gesture that scrolls and the gesture that prays are the same. A journal of a contradiction I no longer try to resolve, only to inhabit.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-of-the-day/https://www.the-manna.app/en/prayers/prayer-of-the-day/One prayer of the day, just one, chosen for today — and why that is enough. A full prayer to read, a verse, a way to begin.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-first-morning/https://www.the-manna.app/en/notebook/the-first-morning/Why an app, why manna. The first morning of a prayer notebook kept in a low voice, with its contradictions owned.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT