ROME - An Italian priest has developed an application that will celebrate Mass with the iPad instead of the regular Roman Missal. The Rev. Paul Godfathers, a consultant to the Vatican Pontifical Council for Social Communications , stated that the free application will be launched in July in different languages \u200b\u200b(English, French, English, Italian and Latin).
Two years ago, Godfathers, developed "iBreviary" , an iPhone application that led directly to the book of daily prayers. He said that since then, nearly 200,000 people have already downloaded.
The iPad is similar, but it also contains the entire missal - everything 'that is said and sung in the Mass during the liturgical year. He also said that updates will be provided for audio, as well as comments and suggestions for homilies as well as the background music.
"The printed never disappear," he said in a telephone intevista from his rectory in Tortona, north of Piedmont. But at the same time, "we should not shocked if the altars we will support these tools for prayer."
Godfathers, 36, expects that the priests who have traveled extensively for work will find this application very useful, noting that recently it has found little to celebrate Mass in a parish where the missal was " a small book, little old .
"It would have been better had my iPad, and not that old booklet" he said.
Pope Benedict XVI, a lover of classical music that has been given an iPod in 2006, has sought to young people through new media : the Vatican regularly updates its channel on YouTube and Facebook. Based on the success of "iBreviary" Godfathers was recruited by the Vatican to oversee the program to raise awareness among young people in new media, http://www.pope2you.net.
He also stressed that the application for the iPad, as iBreviary "have been launched on its own initiative and are, therefore, become an official of the Vatican. Vatican officials have praised "iBreviary" as a new way of evangelization.
Nicole Winfield
Published June 19, 2010
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