Pray As You Go
- Mount Street, London
Pray As You Go is a daily prayer website, podcast and application that was created in 2006 by the Jesuits in the United Kingdom.[1] Since its founding it has been adapted into nine other languages and as of 2020, it is used 30 million times a year.[2]
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.[3] Later other prayers such as the rosary and stations of the cross were added.[4]
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.[5] An open, public trial began. However, after more than 250,000 prayer sessions were downloaded, it was decided to continue it indefinitely.[4]
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.[6] By March 2008, over five million prayer sessions had been downloaded.[4] On 6 April 2014, a Pray As You Go mobile application was launched.[7] Before 2015, a Spanish version was created and called Rezando Voy.[8] During Lent 2017, the French version, Prie en Chemin was launched, which after two years had 30,000 users.[9] In 2019, in conjunction with Christian Life Community in Egypt, an Arabic version called Fi Tariqi Osally (on my way, I pray) was launched.[10] In 2020, it was launched on Amazon Alexa.[2]
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.[10]
See also
- Saint Ignatius of Loyola
- List of Jesuit sites in the United Kingdom
References
- ^ Harriet Sherwood O click, all ye faithful: church expands online in 'paradigm shift', The Guardian, 21 December 2016, retrieved 5 March 2021
- ^ a b Madoc Cairns, Want to pray? Now you can ask Alexa, The Tablet, 30 April 2020, retrieved 5 March 2021
- ^ Patricia Bailey, 5 Ways to make your morning commute spiritually uplifting, Aleteia, 29 October 2018, retrieved 5 March 2021
- ^ a b c Jesuit Media Initiatives|[https://web.archive.org/web/20130129071033/http://www.jesuit.org.uk/jmi/ Archived 29 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 22 January 2013
- ^ Frances Murphy, A decade Thinking Faith, Jesuits.eu, 30 January 2018, retrieved 5 March 2021
- ^ Joelle Kidd, Prayer: There's an app for that, Anglican Journal, 31 December 2018, retrieved 5 March 2021
- ^ Pray As You Go is 'appy to announce...!, Jesuit.org.uk, 6 April 2014, retrieved 5 March 2021
- ^ Sean Salai, What Pope Francis has unleashed cannot 'be put back in the bottle.', America, 9 December 2015, retrieved 5 March 2021
- ^ Grégoire Le Bel, Happy Birthday for French “Pray-as-you-go”, Jesuits.eu, 29 March 2019, retrieved 5 March 2021
- ^ a b 15 years of Pray as you go, Jesuits.eu, 29 December 2020, retrieved 5 March 2021
External links
- Pray-As-You-Go.org
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- Parishes
- Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street
- St Ignatius Church, Stamford Hill
- St Anselm's Church, Southall
- St Dominic's Church, Newcastle
- St Wilfrid's Church, Preston
- St Aloysius Church, Glasgow
- Sacred Heart Church, Edinburgh
- St Peter's Church, Stonyhurst
- Former
- Sacred Heart Church, Accrington
- Sacred Heart Church, Blackpool
- Corpus Christi Church, Boscombe
- Sacred Heart Church, Bournemouth
- St Mary on the Quay, Bristol
- Corpus Christi Church, Brixton
- St Edmund's Church, Bury St Edmunds
- Annunciation Church, Chesterfield
- Holy Trinity Church, Chipping Norton
- St Mary Church, Clayton-le-Moors
- St Michael and St John Church, Clitheroe
- St David's Church, Dalkeith
- St Mary's Church, Great Yarmouth
- St Francis Xavier Church, Hereford
- St Winefride's Church, Holywell
- Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Leeds
- Sacred Heart Church, Leeds
- St Joseph's Church, Leigh
- Our Lady of Ransom and the Holy Souls Church, Llandrindod Wells
- Our Lady Star of the Sea Church, Lowestoft
- St Aloysius Gonzaga Church, Oxford
- Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Portico
- Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph Church, Prescot
- St Ignatius Church, Preston
- St Walburge's Church, Preston
- St Joseph and St Francis Xavier Church, Richmond
- Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Rhyl
- St Joseph Church, Roehampton
- Holy Cross Church, St Helens
- Church of St Mary, Lowe House, St Helens
- St Stephen's Church, Skipton
- St Ignatius Church, South Ossett
- Church of the Immaculate Conception, Spinkhill
- St Austin's Church, Wakefield
- St John's Church, Wigan
- Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon
- Christ the King Church, Wimbledon Park
- St Winefride Church, South Wimbledon
- St George's Church, Worcester
- Residential
- St Beuno's Jesuit Spirituality Centre
- Former
- Corby Hall
- Loyola Hall
- Pray As You Go
- Thinking Faith
- The Way
- Jesuit Missions UK
- Jesuit Refugee Service
- List of Jesuit sites in Britain
- Catholicism portal
- Great Britain portal