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The iBreviary application is now available at the iTunes store. Vatican approves prayerbook app for iTunes <http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081222/Vatican_iTunes_081222/20081222?hub=TopStories>http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081222/Vatican_iTunes_081222/20081222?hub=TopStories Updated Mon. Dec. 22 2008 1:43 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff The Vatican has given Roman Catholics its blessing to worship with the help of a new digital prayerbook for iPhones and iPods. The iBreviary application delivers daily prayers to Apple users in English, Spanish, Italian, Latin or French. The app is available for download online at the iTunes store for US$0.99. The app is the brainchild of 35-year-old Italian priest Father Paolo Padrini and software developer Dimitri Giani. At the moment there are three sections, Padrini said in an Italian interview available online at NECN.com. The sections include: bible passages, prayers and hymns. "Now, you can use the iPhone like an electronic missal book," Padrini said. After a free trial period, iBreviary was reportedly downloaded 10,000 times in Italy. The product was officially launched on Dec. 14. "Beautiful graphics and layout," wrote one iTunes user. The app currently has a five-star rating on iTunes. The secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Monsignor Paul Tighe, endorses the app as a way to share Jesus' message with the world. "I suppose the church is learning to use the new technologies primarily as tool or as a means of evangelizing," Tighe said in the online interview. "This is one example where young believers, young priests, religious lay people are using their knowledge of their own culture to engage fully." iTunes may be new to the Vatican, but many Catholics have long embraced the forum. Numerous U.S. parishes have been making Sunday mass available through the popular online store for the past couple of years. Part of the revenues from the download of iBreviary will fund the restoration of a children's summer camp in Italy. <*}}}>< <http://www.halfthekingdom.org/please%20donate.html>Donations are needed and very much appreciated <*}}}>< <*}}}>< <http://www.holypostage.com/>Holy Postage <*}}}>< <*}}}><<http://www.halfthekingdom.org/>Half the <http://www.halfthekingdom.org/>Kingdom!<*}}}>< Lord, may everything we do begin with Your inspiration and continue with Your help, so that all our prayers and works may begin in You and by You be happily ended. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. <*}}}>< <http://www.halfthekingdom.org/please%20donate.html>Donations are needed and very much appreciated <*}}}>< <*}}}>< <http://www.holypostage.com/>Holy Postage <*}}}>< <*}}}><<http://www.halfthekingdom.org/>Half the <http://www.halfthekingdom.org/>Kingdom!<*}}}>< Lord, may everything we do begin with Your inspiration and continue with Your help, so that all our prayers and works may begin in You and by You be happily ended. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please note that I do not send or open attachments sent to this list. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Catholics on Fire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Catholics-on-Fire May the blessing of Jesus and our Blessed Mother be with you -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
