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Vatican approves iBreviary for iPhone

Published: December 16, 2008

The Vatican Council for Social Communications has approved an iBreviary application created by Italian priest Fr Paolo Padrini for the iPhone.

Infomobile reports it brings complete missal and principal prayers in Spanish, French, English, Latin and Italian.

"That's cool, but what really sets this application apart from all others in the AppStore is that it's the first app with approval of the Vatican!" Infomobile says.

"As with almost any iPhone app, iBreviary is easy to use, sporting iPhone like user interface. In addition, size of the characters can be increased, landscape mode is supported (using accelerometer) and much more.

"I'll stop here as I'm not an expert in the field. All I know is that geek Catholics among you will want it badly. It costs $0.99 and you can grab it from here (iTunes)," Infomobile says.

America Magazine describes iBreviary as an application which "allows the believer to pray simply via an intuituve interface."

There are plans for audio accompaniments, Gregorian chant, as well as additional prayers.

The creator of iBreviary, Fr Paolo Padrini, runs a popular website called Passi nel deserto ("Steps in the desert"). At the moment iBreviary is available only in Italian, but English and Spanish are promised.

SOURCE

iBreviary - first iPhone app approved by the Vatican! (Infomobile, 15/12/08)

iBreviary (America Magazine, 18/11/08)

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Recent Comments

  1. Breviary, wonderful especially if you travel
    I cannot wait to see it in English;

    Br. Karl KSC

    Posted By: Karl Vey

  2. i Breviary- Brain-child of Fr Paolo Padrini.

    Liturgy is ever dynamic and progressive. As church encourages this dymanic and progressive movement, we also appreciate the ingenuity and originality of this form of progressiveness. Let the promise of translation be catholic in language not only English and spanish. The Church need more of ground root touch in prayer books. Grazie.
    From, Fr Paul Ikechukwu Ogujioffor

    Posted By: REV FR PAUL IKECHUKWU OGUJIOFFOR

  3. YES! I have prayed for this for a long time.

    Posted By: Deacon Doug

  4. I purchased the Q1260 iBreviary, v1.2.1, Seller: Dimitri Giani
    via I-tunes for my I-Pod. I got a receipt that I paid for it, but don't know how to get it to my I-Pod now. Any suggestions?

    Posted By: George Alexa

  5. I downloaded it and it worked great for two days. Now, today, I tried to update and it crashed. When I tried to open it again, it showed me the home screen icon, and then went right back to my apps list. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times, both directly on the device and via syncing with iTunes, but neither has helped at all. I took a trip for two weeks without my breviary because I was counting on this working! I have contacted the developers, but in the meantime, does anyone know how to fix the problem?

    Posted By: Lindsay

  6. Will there be a Google Android version? That's what's needed :)

    Posted By: Comps

  7. I just installed this ap on my Droid Pro. It is absolutely wonderful! What a service to the faithful!

    Posted By: Diane, SFO Hackensack, NJ

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