High-tech spirituality conversation continues

Related to our last post about the Vatican approving the use of the iPad by priests at Mass is a story from CNS on the various prayer applications available for your smartphone. It provides some general information on what's out there -- from iMissal to a new Rosary application to a touch-screen Saint of the Day app -- as well as some insights into why digital spiritual outreach is important and necessary.

From the CNS story:

"These three applications -- better known as apps -- only scratch the surface of faith-related digital materials available in Apple's App Store and, to a lesser extent, in the Android Market and Palm Pre App Catalog. With these digital Catholic resources comes the undeniable convenience of modern-day prayer.

"'I know people who before they even get out of bed they have their iPod Touch or their iPhone in their hand,' said Sister Kathryn James Hermes, a Daughter of St. Paul and director of digital publishing for Pauline Books and Media, in an interview with the Arlington Catholic Herald, newspaper of the Arlington Diocese.

"...Sister Kathryn and the Daughters of St. Paul always are on the lookout for ways to give the Internet a soul by using it to spread the good news.

"'For those who never go into a church, through the media we're able to allow wherever they are to become a church," she said. "It becomes a place of encounter for them, a sacred space, a type of church. It becomes a way to multiply our presence to a whole new audience.'"

Read the full story HERE.