{ "meta": { "product": "BuildSaints", "page": "The Guide", "version": "1.0", "updated": "2026-08-24", "core_message": "Your Catholic agent — turn your daily activities into a walk with God.", "summary": "Serious tools for your real week — investing, finances, places, relationships, events — run through the Church's own teaching, cited, composed into daily Catholic practice alongside your parish.", "machine_readable_source": "https://buildsaints.com/docs/docs.json", "app_download": "https://buildsaints.com/download" }, "sections": [ { "id": "your-day", "eyebrow": "The engine", "title": "Your day, composed.", "body": [ "Each morning, Today holds a short hand of cards composed for you overnight: a reading, a prayer, and whatever your real week raised — a holding that moved, a friend's 9am, a rule you set that resolved.", "Every card names its source (from: Investing · from: Calendar · from: Places) and acts in one tap. Answer what's real, pass on what isn't — the mix learns honestly from both.", "Nothing unlocks by pushiness. Deeper surfaces — community lanes, 1:1 matches, event cards — appear on evidence of practice, never on a timer.", "Lifetime practice is marked in milestones (10, 20, 35…), each unlocking a holy figure for your roster." ] }, { "id": "practices", "eyebrow": "The foundation", "title": "The daily practices.", "intro": "Free forever, for everyone. Each stands in a real tradition of the Church — and each is personalized to the day you actually lived.", "items": [ { "id": "morning-offering", "name": "Daily Offering", "what": "The day handed over before it starts — work, joys, and difficulties offered as prayer.", "teaching": { "text": "Everyday activity, offered, becomes a spiritual sacrifice.", "cites": [ "Lumen Gentium 34", "CCC 901" ] } }, { "id": "mass-readings", "name": "Mass Readings", "what": "The Church's daily readings with a short reflection composed for you — your week can appear in it.", "teaching": { "text": "Scripture as strength for faith and food for the soul.", "cites": [ "Dei Verbum 21" ] } }, { "id": "examen", "name": "Evening Examen", "what": "St. Ignatius' review of the day — gratitude, an honest look, one resolution. Yours starts from what actually happened: the 2:30 that ran long, the rule that tripped.", "teaching": { "text": "The examination of conscience, particular and general.", "cites": [ "Spiritual Exercises §§24–43" ] } }, { "id": "reading-journey", "name": "The Reading Journey", "what": "Chaptered arcs through the great works — Augustine, Aquinas, the encyclicals — modernized, walked at your pace.", "teaching": { "text": "Prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture.", "cites": [ "Dei Verbum 25" ] } }, { "id": "rosary-reflection", "name": "Rosary & Reflection audio", "what": "Composed audio for the commute or the walk — the Rosary as contemplation of the face of Christ with Mary.", "teaching": { "text": "", "cites": [ "Rosarium Virginis Mariae 3" ] } }, { "id": "hours", "name": "The Hours & Silence", "what": "Lauds, midday, Vespers — the Church's own prayer sanctifying hours you're already living. Or five minutes of kept silence.", "teaching": { "text": "The whole course of day and night made holy by the praise of God.", "cites": [ "Sacrosanctum Concilium 84" ] } } ] }, { "id": "areas", "eyebrow": "Your Catholic agent", "title": "Five real areas of your life, run through Church teaching.", "intro": "Serious tools you'd use anyway — each seen with the Church's eyes, each landing back in the daily practice. The rules are yours to set, in plain words; the teaching under each one is real and checkable.", "items": [ { "id": "investing", "name": "Investing", "app": "Faithful Steward Investor", "what": "Every holding scored on USCCB-aligned screens beside a return outlook — one watchlist, a dossier per company, action one tap through the brokerage rail.", "reads": "Your watchlist and holdings; nightly research on each name.", "lands": "the morning reading", "rules": [ { "rule": "Invest in Catholic-aligned companies — and know why each one aligns.", "teaching": "Invest as responsible stewards: avoid what wounds human dignity, promote the common good.", "cites": [ "USCCB Socially Responsible Investment Guidelines (2021)" ] }, { "rule": "Tell me when a holding's screen score falls.", "teaching": "When Sands announces a new casino, the score moves and the day's reading carries the teaching on games of chance.", "cites": [ "CCC 2413" ] } ], "note": "Screens and outlooks are formation, not brokerage advice." }, { "id": "finances", "name": "Personal finances", "app": "The Steward", "what": "Your real transactions read through rules you write in plain words — spending, giving, the shape of the week.", "reads": "Bank transactions you choose to connect. They stay yours — cards carry standings, never statements.", "lands": "the evening examen", "rules": [ { "rule": "Give to your parish weekly.", "teaching": "The faithful provide for the material needs of the Church, each according to ability — and God loves a cheerful giver.", "cites": [ "CCC 2043", "2 Corinthians 9:7" ] }, { "rule": "Spend under $60 on eating out this week.", "teaching": "Goods are entrusted to us as stewards, to be made fruitful — temperance keeps desire within what is honorable.", "cites": [ "CCC 2404–2405", "CCC 1809" ] }, { "rule": "A third coffee stop this week gets held for tonight's look-back.", "teaching": "Faithfulness in very little is where faithfulness in much begins.", "cites": [ "Luke 16:10" ] } ] }, { "id": "places", "name": "Places & time", "app": "The location companion", "what": "Where your hours actually go — home, work, the gym, the church you pass — clustered into honest stays and read through rules you set.", "reads": "Your location history, on your account only. Cards speak at category level and never name a specific place.", "lands": "the examen & the week's look-back", "rules": [ { "rule": "Visit a church twice a week — a 10-minute stop counts.", "teaching": "The Sunday obligation, and the old city devotion of a visit to the Blessed Sacrament. The map holds ~540 Catholic churches of greater New York, with exact addresses.", "cites": [ "CCC 2180", "CCC 1418" ] }, { "rule": "A bar stay longer than two hours.", "teaching": "Temperance moderates the use of created goods — the line is excess, not the pub.", "cites": [ "CCC 1809", "CCC 2290" ] }, { "rule": "No work on Sunday.", "teaching": "Human life has a rhythm of work and rest, and God's own rest is its model.", "cites": [ "CCC 2184–2185" ] }, { "rule": "Under 30 minutes outside the house in a day gets noticed.", "teaching": "By our innermost nature we are social beings — the unmoved apartment day is the modern face of acedia.", "cites": [ "Gaudium et Spes 12", "CCC 1879", "CCC 2733" ] } ], "note": "Any rule can be shared with an accountability partner — they see the standing, never the place (James 5:16)." }, { "id": "relationships", "name": "Relationships", "app": "The Intention Keeper · Meeting Prep", "what": "The names in your real correspondence and calendar become intentions — a line for Joe before his 9am, held again at night.", "reads": "Email summaries and calendar events you choose to connect. The record stays private to you.", "lands": "intercessions, morning and night", "rules": [ { "rule": "The people you write to become a prayer list that remembers the specifics.", "teaching": "Supplications for all people; intercession as the heart of Christian prayer.", "cites": [ "1 Timothy 2:1", "CCC 2634–2636" ] }, { "rule": "Before each meeting, a scripture for the person you're meeting.", "teaching": "Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord.", "cites": [ "Colossians 3:23" ] } ] }, { "id": "events", "name": "Events", "app": "Event Prep & the community calendar", "what": "Your community's calendar, prepared before and carried after — a reading on the way in, the recap and trivia for everyone who was there.", "reads": "Your community's own events and what its admins highlight.", "lands": "readings before, rounds after", "rules": [ { "rule": "Going Thursday? The prep reading rides along, and attendance itself completes the card.", "teaching": "They devoted themselves to the teaching and the fellowship.", "cites": [ "Acts 2:42" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "library", "eyebrow": "More from the library", "title": "The rest of the shelf.", "intro": "Every one of these is forkable — take a copy, make it yours (see Build your own).", "items": [ { "id": "weekly-pilgrimage", "name": "The Weekly Pilgrimage", "line": "Your NYC days as a map itinerary of churches and events.", "cites": [ "CCC 2691" ] }, { "id": "christ-at-the-corner", "name": "Christ at the Corner", "line": "Encounter ministry for the person you pass every day.", "cites": [ "Matthew 25:40" ] }, { "id": "recovery-companion", "name": "Recovery Companion", "line": "A steady daily companion for the fight, one day at a time.", "cites": [ "1 Corinthians 10:13" ] }, { "id": "virtue-decisions", "name": "Virtue Decision Maker", "line": "Real decisions walked through prudence — right reason in action.", "cites": [ "CCC 1806" ] }, { "id": "meeting-debrief", "name": "The Meeting Debrief", "line": "The after-journal: what happened, what it asked of you." }, { "id": "the-manager", "name": "The Manager", "line": "The library's game — play it with your community." } ] }, { "id": "community", "eyebrow": "Alongside your parish", "title": "Community is half the product.", "intro": "Your parish community runs the same days — digital between events, in person at them. Formation doesn't wait for Sunday; it keeps leading you back to it (Hebrews 10:24–25).", "items": [ { "id": "events", "name": "Events", "line": "One button: I'm going · I was there. Recommended events ride your Today feed; what happens there comes back as content — notes, recap, trivia." }, { "id": "one-on-ones", "name": "1:1 matches", "line": "Matched on real evidence — people who actually practice, near you when it matters. Your round is composed before you ever see it: trivia, two-truths, a shared reflection. The after-game card introduces you properly, by full name." }, { "id": "rounds", "name": "Community rounds & games", "line": "One together-game per community day — ladders, wordle, the shared board. And the Week Game: saint-named teams, seven church riddles, a photo at the real statue banks the day." }, { "id": "partners", "name": "Accountability partners", "line": "Per-rule, consented both ways — a partner sees the standing of only the rules you chose to share, and never a place or a number you didn't (James 5:16 · Ecclesiastes 4:9–10)." }, { "id": "groups", "name": "Communities & groups", "line": "One community, one week, one Sunday. Group journeys carry an admin's note the way a homily would — it steers what the whole group's days lean into." } ] }, { "id": "build", "eyebrow": "Forge — the builder", "title": "Build your own.", "body": [ "The middle tab is your agent — the same one composing your day. Ask why any card appeared, tune the mix, or build.", "Say it in plain words → the agent plans and shows what it will do and cost → it builds on your confirm. Real apps with real views, scheduled agents that watch something for you, connections to the services you already use.", "Fork anything in the library and make it yours — versions are kept, and return-to-original is always one tap.", "Attach an app to your group or event — the step shows up on the event page for everyone, no one has to install anything to play." ], "guardrails": [ "The Catholic generation floor stands under everything it makes.", "Propose → confirm before anything runs or spends. Chat and planning are never gated.", "Creator-pays billing: what your app costs to run bills you, not your friends.", "Your own ChatGPT connection powers your builds — your work runs on your account." ] }, { "id": "data", "eyebrow": "The honest register", "title": "Your data, plainly.", "items": [ { "area": "Places", "promise": "Category-level only. A specific place never appears in any card, compose, or partner note." }, { "area": "Finances", "promise": "Standings, never statements. Transactions stay in your account; merchants and amounts never leave it." }, { "area": "Email & calendar", "promise": "Summaries feed your private intentions. Nothing is shared, nothing is sold." }, { "area": "Community", "promise": "Reflections surface as presence — 'shared' — while the words stay yours. 1:1 content stays between the two of you." }, { "area": "The posture", "promise": "Surface, never judge — the app's own written law. And what's AI-composed says so; every teaching citation is real and checkable." } ] }, { "id": "begin", "title": "Begin.", "free": "Free — every practice, every figure, your community.", "full": "$10/mo — the full walk: your whole week connected, without limits.", "cta": "https://buildsaints.com/download" } ] }