iBreviary: Gracing Your iPhone With The Blessing Of The Vatican

If you've been looking for just that right touch of holiness to add to your iPhone app library, look no further: the iPhone has just gained its very first Vatican sanctioned iPhone app: iBreviary, by Father Paolo Padrini of the Catholic Church.

Boing Boing Gadgets has posted a short interview with Father Padrini:

The idea of the application "iBreviary" is born from a double awareness.

First of all, I believe firmly that today man needs to socialize, he needs moments of listening, and also moments of silence, of prayer and meditation.
Today man has the need for God, even if he doesn't realize it; today man needs spaces to talk with God and to reflect on life and death and so on...

Second thing: the new media are demonstrating more and more great possibilities, together with a lot of risks, but the possibilities are a lot indeed.
The media can become places of reflection, also of silence.... and surely they can contribute to a new socialization.

If you want your iPhone accompanying and guiding *your* prayers, iBreviary is available in the iTunes App Store for $1 in both English and Italian. Is it just me, or shouldn't an application like this be... free?

When even Catholic priests are getting into the App Store action, you *know* the App Store has hit the mainstream.

Interview: Father Paolo Padrini of "iBreviary", the first Vatican-sanctioned iPhone app [BBG]