Monks produce pray-as-you-go podcasts
A new initiative by the British Jesuits - a religious order of the Catholic Church - to offer
commuters daily prayer sessions as mp3 downloads, has proved an instant success around the world.Jesuit Media Initiatives planned to trial the new project – called Pray-As-You-Go - for the season of Lent.
They invited people from their parishes and schools in Britain to give it a go by using the audio files on their iPods, mobile phones or other MP3 players to guide them through prayer on their daily journey to work, school or college.
But by the time dawn broke on the first day - Ash Wednesday (1 March) - word had spread, and some 3,300 prayer sessions had been downloaded from the web in countries as far apart as Australia, Mexico and the USA.
Since then, a further 18,400 sessions have been downloaded. (Ekklesia)
