“Wasting time” On the Computer Again?
How About Making it a Fruitful Encounter with Christ Instead with Web Devotions?
Here follows some encouraging words on the matter from no less than Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Pope Francis on the subject. As well as links to some of our favored “web devotions”. Although we do them in chapel or in the cloister, the modern information highway allows you to participate. Come join us in prayer!
“Attention should be paid to the various types of websites, applications and social networks which can help people today to find time for reflection and authentic questioning, as well as making space for silence and occasions for prayer, meditation or sharing of the word of God.”
Benedict XVI
24January 2012
46th World Day of Social Communications
“What is it, then, that helps us, in the digital environment, to grow in humanity and mutual understanding? We need, for example, to recover a certain sense of deliberateness and calm. This calls for time and the ability to be silent and to listen….”
Francis
24 January 2014
48th World Day of Social Communications
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Chaplet of the Precious Blood
Mother of Sorrows Rosary
Stations of the Cross