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Jesuit prayer website and app
Pray As You Go
AbbreviationPAYG
FounderPeter Scally SJ
Location
ServicesPrayer application
AffiliationsSociety of Jesus
Websitepray-as-you-go.org

Pray As You Go is a daily prayer website, podcast and application that was created in 2006 by the Jesuits in the United Kingdom. Since its founding it has been adapted into nine other languages and as of 2020, it is used 30 million times a year.

Format

Based on Ignatian spirituality, the website and its application has daily audio prayers that regularly use music, passages from the Bible and contemplations from the Spiritual Exercises, with reflective questions based on the examination of conscience. Later other prayers such as the rosary and stations of the cross were added.

History

On 1 March 2006, Pray As You Go was launched. It was founded by Peter Scally who had previously worked on Sacred Space in Ireland and who went on to also found Thinking Faith, an online theology journal in 2008. An open, public trial began. However, after more than 250,000 prayer sessions were downloaded, it was decided to continue it indefinitely.

It started as a website and a podcast, where it could be downloaded and then listened to later, allowing people to be able to do it while commuting or travelling. By March 2008, over five million prayer sessions had been downloaded. On 6 April 2014, a Pray As You Go mobile application was launched. Before 2015, a Spanish version was created and called Rezando Voy. During Lent 2017, the French version, Prie en Chemin was launched, which after two years had 30,000 users. In 2019, in conjunction with Christian Life Community in Egypt, an Arabic version called Fi Tariqi Osally (on my way, I pray) was launched. In 2020, it was launched on Amazon Alexa.

As of 2020, it is available in over 180 countries and there is a version in Dutch called Bidden Onderweg, in Hungarian it is called Napi-útra-való, in Polish as Modlitwa w Drodze, Portuguese as Passo a Rezar, Ukrainian as iMolytva and Vietnamese as Phút cãu nguyên.

See also

References

  1. Harriet Sherwood O click, all ye faithful: church expands online in 'paradigm shift', The Guardian, 21 December 2016, retrieved 5 March 2021
  2. ^ Madoc Cairns, Want to pray? Now you can ask Alexa, The Tablet, 30 April 2020, retrieved 5 March 2021
  3. Patricia Bailey, 5 Ways to make your morning commute spiritually uplifting, Aleteia, 29 October 2018, retrieved 5 March 2021
  4. ^ Jesuit Media Initiatives, Retrieved 22 January 2013 Archived 29 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Frances Murphy, A decade Thinking Faith, Jesuits.eu, 30 January 2018, retrieved 5 March 2021
  6. Joelle Kidd, Prayer: There's an app for that, Anglican Journal, 31 December 2018, retrieved 5 March 2021
  7. Pray As You Go is 'appy to announce...!, Jesuit.org.uk, 6 April 2014, retrieved 5 March 2021
  8. Sean Salai, What Pope Francis has unleashed cannot 'be put back in the bottle.', America, 9 December 2015, retrieved 5 March 2021
  9. Grégoire Le Bel, Happy Birthday for French “Pray-as-you-go”, Jesuits.eu, 29 March 2019, retrieved 5 March 2021
  10. ^ 15 years of Pray as you go, Jesuits.eu, 29 December 2020, retrieved 5 March 2021

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