Prayer and the iPhone, iPad and Facebook...

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"...Be sure to announce the Gospel to your contemporaries with enthusiasm. You know their fears and their hopes, their aspirations and their disappointments: the greatest gift you can give to them is to share with them the "Good News" of a God who became man, who suffered, died and rose again to save all people. Human hearts are yearning for a world where love endures, where gifts are shared, where unity is built, where freedom finds meaning in truth, and where identity is found in respectful communion. Our faith can respond to these expectations: may you become its heralds! The Pope accompanies you with his prayers and his blessing..." - Pope Benedict XVI

Zenit reported on May 17, 2010:

Italian Father Paolo Padrini wanted to put the new technologies at the service of the spiritual life of Catholics and priests in a concrete way.

Thus, he came up with the iBreviary initiative, which digitized the Liturgy of the Hours for use on the iPhone and iPad.

Father Padrini, who spoke with ZENIT about his passion for using new technologies, belongs to the Diocese of Tortona, in northern Italy.

He has also created an application for sharing prayers on Facebook, and the Pope2You Web site, which enables young people worldwide to send digital cards to each other and to the Pontiff.

But above all, says Father Padrini, "I seek to be a priest, to witness the love of Christ with sincere, consistent and present belief."

ZENIT interviewed Father Padrini during the recent communications week organized in Rome by Paulinas Onlus for World Communications Day, celebrated on Sunday. This year, the day's theme was: "The Priest and Pastoral Ministry in a Digital World: New Media at the Service of the Word."

ZENIT: What do you think of Pope Benedict XVI's message for the World Communications Day?

Father Padrini: I think it is somewhat similar to last year's. He emphasizes the ambit of the new media, as a field open to evangelization and to the presence of priests in a particular way. I think therefore that he again takes to the chair of the ecclesial ambit a topic that would run the risk of being left only to areas of technological, anthropological and sociological in-depth study. Instead, we see that it is a place of encounter with the Gospel.

ZENIT: As creator of the iBreviary, can you tell us about its advantages?

Father Padrini: The advantage is above all practical.

With this technology young people are brought close to prayer and to the liturgy -- to persons of 30 or 40 years of age, professionals and professors who regard prayer as something plausible and attainable and not as something relegated solely to the clerical ambit. Because this is not the prayer of priests but of the whole Church.

ZENIT: Do you fear that its creation can bring disadvantages or dangers?

Father Padrini: A disadvantage might be to lose the ecclesial dimension of the prayer.

What is important is to balance the use of these instruments through strong spirituality and profound faith, with habits such as participation in one's parish, and the living of the liturgy so that one can really live through these instruments the prospect of the faith, which is never an individualist but an ecclesial prospect.

ZENIT: Let us think of future priests: those who belong to the so-called digital generation, born after 1990. How do you see in them the use of these means? Will they no longer use the paper breviaries?

Father Padrini: There are those who are afraid that prayer books will disappear.

I think that paper is far from being finished, even if we are witnesses of so many technological changes and have the good fortune of communicating so many things. But nothing replaces the sense of touch.

Our feelings are expressed differently with paper or the telephone. That is why I think that paper will continue to be used and I believe that in any case room must be made for the use of this instrument for the so-called digital generation -- we know that this term is an abstraction because we call them digital but the human being is not digital, he is analogical and will always be so.

It is obvious that everything will be filtered through a new sensitivity that is made up of discernment, senses, analogies, of telling stories and dreams -- the things that make up our spirituality and our humanity.

ZENIT: To put into practice Benedict XVI's call to priests: How can a balance be achieved between the pastoral work of physical presence and the pastoral ministry through the presence in the media?

Father Padrini: Benedict XVI said it just at the end of his intervention in the congress that was held recently in Rome called Testimoni Digitali (Digital Witnesses), when he said that one must not fall into the use of the instruments at all cost but that it is always necessary to have the heart of a pastor.

The synthesis between pastor and Internet surfer is found and will be found daily in our heart.

If I am a true priest, I can be so with a telephone in my hand, with a Bible in the other and I can be so with a newspaper under my arm, because it isn't these instruments that speak alone, but our faith which is made of flesh and which speaks to the flesh; that is why my flesh will be the true synthesis.

We must be formed from the spiritual point of view and then be able to use these resources well from the technological-practical point of view.

"I ask that you keep abreast of your times by your radios, and also your newspapers. But remember, My children: keep abreast of your times with an open heart and eyes, because much is kept from you. It is the way of the medias today. They are controlled, My children." - Jesus, June 18, 1987

"I caution you in the days ahead to read all periodicals and approach your news medias with a critical eye, for you seldom will receive now the truth in print or through your news medias, My children, which are fully controlled by the Grand Masters and those who are seeking to bring about the one-world religion and the one rule of government--a measure of enslaving all of mankind under the forces of Antichrist." - Jesus, November 22, 1976

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These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995:

SCHOOLED TO KILL
"My children, you must exercise your God-given sense and knowledge. I warned you in the past that all medias are now controlled. Your children, by manner of the infernal boxes in your homes, the televisions, are being now schooled to kill, to sin.
"And many parents shall be murdered by their own children! And why? Because you all failed to recognize what is happening before your very eyes: your children are being programmed to kill. A steady diet of violence will lead to the spirit being dulled and the sensitivity being dulled until even murder is condoned, with all manner of rationalizing for the commission of this sin against your God and all mankind." - Our Lady, May 13, 1978

ATHEISTS
"Your medias of communication are controlled. Can you find the truth among atheists?" - Our Lady, May 26, 1976

RETURN MORALITY
"My child, I want you to do all you can to foster the return of mortality and morality to the medias, and also to those you love--your neighbors, your children. And do not be affrighted or flee from the sinner, for he, too, can be saved by your efforts and your prayers." - Our Lady, October 5, 1985

GRAND MASTERS
"I caution you in the days ahead to read all periodicals and approach your news medias with a critical eye, for you seldom will receive now the truth in print or through your news medias, My children, which are fully controlled by the Grand Masters and those who are seeking to bring about the one-world religion and the one rule of government--a measure of enslaving all of mankind under the forces of Antichrist." - Jesus, November 22, 1976

KEEP PURE
"Keep pure and holy thoughts in your mind at all times. The eyes are the mirror of the soul.... Newspapers are the enemies of God, magazines of obscenity! Ways of recreation and entertainment, My child, must be cleansed." - Jesus, June 18, 1975

COMMUNIST
"In many countries throughout your world it appears, My children--and I say, appears-- that the communist country leaders are permitting religion within their rule. This is a sham, My children, a cover-up for the fact that it is state-controlled. The propaganda machines send out much propaganda that deceives the public and those who are willing to believe all given out in the medias." - Our Lady, May 13, 1978

KEEP ABREAST
"I ask that you keep abreast of your times by your radios, and also your newspapers. But remember, My children: keep abreast of your times with an open heart and eyes, because much is kept from you. It is the way of the medias today. They are controlled, My children." - Jesus, June 18, 1987

ILLUMINATI
"There is a group in the United States and the world, a group that started many years ago, calling itself the Illuminati, coming from the word 'light bearer.' Naturally, My children, this light that they bear stands for Lucifer, and as such they have gone through the world secretly known as Luciferians. They have brought into your country, the United States, and your neighbor Canada, a group of witchcraft practices.
"Well have they laid their plan to destroy your children with drugs, using your school systems, your medias of communication, your newspapers, your televisions, your radios: every means of communication has been infiltrated by the members and sub-members of the Illuminati, a conglomeration of individuals and powers and principalities throughout the world, and banking systems." - Our Lady, November 25, 1978

PRAY
"Do not accept as fact much that is printed in your news medias and books, My children. Pray before you read that you may receive the light to separate fact from lies and fallacies." - Our Lady, May 29, 1976

CATHOLIC
"You must beware of your medias, even those who have labeled themselves Catholic, Roman Catholic. Infiltration, My children, is everywhere now." - Our Lady, August 14, 1981

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Pope Pius XI on the corrupting influence of television and movies
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Archbishop O'Malley calls MTV 'poisonous'
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