By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An Italian priest and Vatican consultant is launching a free iPad app in July that will contain the entire Roman missal, thus enabling priests who travel frequently to use it on the altar.
“Want to conduct Sunday Mass but don’t have your copy of the church missal? There’s an app for that,” writes Rebecca Boyle for Popsci.
The app was created by Fr. Paolo Padrini, 36, the same priest who developed the iBreviary for iPhone use that enables Catholics to pray the Divine Office wherever they are. To date, 200,000 people have downloaded it, Boyle reports.
Padrini’s latest app, the Missal, will be available in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Latin, and was designed for priests who travel frequently.
“Padrini said the apps were his idea and launched with his money, and are not official Vatican initiatives,” Boyle writes.
“But the work seems to fit his role as a consultant with the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications.”
The Vatican considers Padrini’s work to be a novel form of evangelization that could help the Church’s efforts to attract young people.
The iPad innovation joins a growing list of social communication products, including Facebook and YouTube, that are currently being used to deliver the Vatican’s message to the masses.
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