{"id":4537,"date":"2010-06-18T19:01:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T19:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/06\/how-long-until-we-see-this-on-the-altar.html"},"modified":"2010-06-18T19:01:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T19:01:37","slug":"how-long-until-we-see-this-on-the-altar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/06\/how-long-until-we-see-this-on-the-altar.html","title":{"rendered":"How long until we see this on the altar?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWill the priest one day celebrate mass with an iPad?
\nIt’s now technically possible (though, perhaps, not liturgically correct).<\/p>\n

Check this out: <\/a><\/p>\n

\niBreviary–the daily prayer book for iPhone–will become a full Roman missal for iPad, allowing priests to celebrate mass in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin. The Vatican-sanctioned application, created Padre Paolo Padrini, includes:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Texts of the Mass
\u2022 The readings of the Mass
\n
\u2022 The breviary
\u2022 The stories of the saints
\n
\u2022 The main Catholic prayers
\n
\u2022 Rites of the Catholic celebrations (anointing of the sick, weddings, funerals, etc.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The inventor, a priest, had this<\/a> to say: <\/p>\n

\n“Paper books will never disappear,” he said in a phone interview from his home parish in Tortona, in Italy’s northern Piemonte region. But at the same time “we shouldn’t be scandalized that on altars there are these instruments in support of prayer.”<\/p>\n

Padrini, 36, said he expected priests who have to travel a lot for work would find the application most useful, noting that he recently had to celebrate Mass in a small parish where the missal was “a small book, a bit dirty, old.”<\/p>\n

“If I had had my iPad with me, it would’ve been better than this old, tiny book,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out more at the link.<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a> UPDATE: <\/b>Meantime, Fr. Z. has a few thoughts, and is taking a poll.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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