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Vireo

What do you want help with today?

Work, family, money, health, the news — and the questions about God you have never said out loud. Ask anything below.

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How it works

  1. Share what's on your heart

    Bring what you actually came with — a worry you keep circling, a passage that won't open, a gratitude you haven't said out loud. Plain words are enough.

  2. Reflect through Scripture and the church's long tradition

    The companion draws on Scripture above all, and on the creeds, the confessions and catechisms of the churches, and the long habits of Christian prayer — the psalms, lectio divina, the examen — and names its sources so you can go and read them yourself.

  3. Return to prayer, and to your church, grounded

    The aim is to hand you back: to your own prayer, to your church and its worship, to people who know you. This is somewhere to pass through, not somewhere to stay.

What this is, and what it isn't

Worth being clear about before you begin, rather than in small print afterwards.

Vireo can

  • Sit with what you bring, and help you find words for it.
  • Offer scriptural and doctrinal context, naming its sources so you can read them for yourself.
  • Suggest a prayer you might pray, or a way in when prayer has gone quiet.
  • Point you toward the parts of Christian life that are not on a screen.

Vireo cannot

  • Hear your confession or forgive sins. That belongs to God — and, in the churches that practise it, to the sacrament of confession.
  • Speak for God, or tell you what God is saying to you.
  • Settle disputed questions, or stand in for the teaching of your church.
  • Know you, remember you, or take the place of someone who does.
  • Act as a therapist or a doctor. It does not diagnose, and it gives no medical or legal advice.

If you are in crisis, the numbers at the foot of every page reach people who can help, and you do not have to talk to the companion first to use them. Please contact one of them, or your local emergency services. This is not therapy, not medical care, and not an emergency service.

Free to start. A small subscription keeps it running.

Every answer is written by a large language model, and every one of them costs money to produce. The free questions are real and they are enough for most days. Subscribing pays for the rest.

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The crisis and pastoral resources at the foot of every page are never counted, never limited, and never behind the subscription. Neither is anything your church or your pastor can give you.

Questions worth asking

Is this a real pastor or priest?
No. No pastor or priest is involved at any point, and nothing said here carries any church's authority. If what you need is confession, spiritual direction, or a pastor who knows your situation, start with your own church. If you are Catholic, the links at the bottom of this page will find you a parish near you.
Does it store what I share?
No. There is no account, and nothing you write is saved on our servers or written to our logs. Your conversation lives in this browser tab and disappears when you close it or clear it. To answer you, your message is sent to Anthropic, which runs the model; Anthropic may keep API traffic briefly for safety purposes under its own privacy policy. The site does keep two small records that are not your words — a daily count of free questions, against a scrambled form of your network address, and, if you subscribe, a note that your subscription is paid up. So: your words are not stored by us, but they are not private in the way a conversation with your pastor is. The privacy page spells it all out.
What does it cost?
3 questions a day are free, every day, with no account. Unlimited questions are $6.99 a month, paid through Stripe and cancellable any time in two clicks. The crisis and pastoral resources on every page are never limited.
Why charge for something like this at all?
Because every answer is written by a language model, and each one costs money to produce. The subscription pays for that and nothing more. It does not buy prayer, a blessing, or any spiritual good — Christians have long had a name for selling those, and this is not that — and it does not change what the companion is or says.
Is it endorsed by any church?
No. Vireo is an independent project with no affiliation to any church, denomination, diocese, convention, or religious order. Where it describes what a tradition teaches, it is doing its best to describe it accurately, not speaking with any church's authority.
What is actually behind it?
Claude, a large language model made by Anthropic, an independent company with no connection to any church. It is a system trained to continue text in ways people find useful. It is not a mind, and there is nobody on the other end.
Can it pray for me? Does God hear it?
It cannot pray. It can help you find words, and it can offer you a prayer you might then pray yourself — but the praying is yours. Nothing here relays anything to God or from God, and any impression that it does is worth resisting.
Which Christians is it for?
All of them — Catholic, Orthodox, and every Protestant and evangelical tradition — and anyone else who is curious. Tell it which church you belong to and it will answer from inside that tradition; where the traditions differ, it says so and describes each fairly. It is not here to argue you into anything, or into a different church.
Can it be wrong about what my church teaches?
Yes, and it sometimes will be. Treat what it says the way you would treat a well-read friend rather than an authority: useful for finding your bearings, worth checking against Scripture, your church's own teaching, and your pastor. On genuinely disputed questions it should tell you they are disputed rather than pick a side.

If it helps you pray, it has done its job. If it keeps you here instead, it has not.

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