Irish Monks Deliver God's PodCast - 21 Sep 2006
Well, those clever-old Irish Jesuits have done it once again... More than 20 million visitors have already appreciated their daily devotional Sacred Space. But now they've gone one better with their new, FREE daily meditation called PRAY-AS-YOU-GO which can be downloaded as an MP3 or a podcast.This brilliant resource will appeal to the 24-7 zeitgeist as we seek to develop sustainable, life-giving rhythms of prayer day-to-day. The fact we can do this on the train, at the gym or even in the toilet is definitely helpful! There's choral music, chiming bells, lilting Irish accents and even a very cool SciFi opening to each devotional in which they say "This is (whatever the date is) in the third week of ordinary time". We dont know what 'ordinary time' actually means but, hey, it sounds cool.
A new prayer session is offered every day, combining music, a short reading from the Bible and a few questions for personal reflection in a session of guided prayer that lasts around 10 or 12 minutes.
The site also offers the option of using ‘Pray-As-You-Go’ as a daily podcast (with iTunes or other podcasting software) which automates the downloading process and keeps you up to date with the site’s latest offering.
Fr Peter Scally says the response has been amazing. “So many people have been enthused by pray-as-you-go that we are left in no doubt that it is addressing a very real need in people’s spiritual lives,” he says.
Peter cut his teeth in the internet world as the designer of Sacred Space – a prayer web site launched in Ireland in 1999: this provides users with 10-minute prayer sessions on their computer screens. It has since been reproduced in 19 languages and has logged over 17 million visits worldwide since its inception.
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“The most beautifully produced prayers Ive ever heard. It touches me in ways I never thought possible.”
Patrick Allen, San Jose, California
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“It fills a real gap and is professionally and sensitively put together”
Robin Farran, NSW, Australia
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“There is no better way to spend the tube journey home, after all the stresses of the day.”
Audrey Newbury, London |
Fr Peter Scally says the response has been amazing. “So many people have been enthused by pray-as-you-go that we are left in no doubt that it is addressing a very real need in people’s spiritual lives,” he says.
Peter cut his teeth in the internet world as the designer of Sacred Space – a prayer web site launched in Ireland in 1999: this provides users with 10-minute prayer sessions on their computer screens. It has since been reproduced in 19 languages and has logged over 17 million visits worldwide since its inception.
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