HIGHLIGHTS
- Click to Pray is an app by the Vatican.
- Pope Francis has unveiled his profile on the Click to Pray app.
- Click to Pray app allows people to share their prayer intentions.
The world today is ruled by apps. These app, or pieces of computer programs, not only help us chat with one another but they also help to find our way in case we get lost, order food when we are hungry, and offer workout guidance when we fall short of a gym instructor. But that's not it as these apps also help us pray. And now, the Pope has unveiled his own profile in a prayer app that would enable to pray with him.
Click to Pray is a mobile app that helps people to pray. And now, Pope Francis of the Vatican has an official profile in the app. Speaking at a prayer meeting ahead of the World Youth Day festival in Panama, the pontiff asked his fellow Catholics present at the St Peter's Square at the Vatican to download and use the app.
"The Internet and social media are a resource of our time...Here, I'll insert the intentions and the prayer requests for the mission of the Church," Pope said from a window at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican, NPR quoted the head of the Catholics as saying, following which father Frederic Fornos, international director of the pope's Worldwide Prayer Network, held up a tablet for the crowd gathered at the St Peter's Square to see.
In case you are curious about the Click to Pray app and its workings, here's a quick brief for you. Click to Pray is an app by the Vatican that is available for down on both, Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store, for free. The app not only allows the pope to share his monthly prayer intensions but it also enables common people to share their own prayer intensions. As the publication notes, the app allows people to share their prayers for various occassions such as weddings, morning, evening, night, celebrations, illnesses and more.
Like social media apps, the Click to Pray app allows its users to set timed reminders to receive notifications that would remind them to pray. Additionally, there is a section that shows videos by the Pope.
The app, as AFP notes, was launched by the Vatican back in 2016 in six languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese.
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