SOURCE: Globe and Mail
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The Blessing of the BlackBerrys
An Anglican church in London, England has done what e-mail addicts and workaholics have been doing for years - invoking God's blessing on their high-tech gadgets. Rev. David Parrott blessed laptops and smart phones on the altar of the 17th-century St. Lawrence Jewry church yesterday. Canon Parrott said the blessing ceremony was an update of a traditional back-to-work event known as Plow Monday, in which villagers gathered to bless a symbolic farm implement dragged to the church's door. He said that ceremony didn't have much relevance for his church, which is "nowhere near a field in the middle of London."
SOURCE: Globe and Mail
SOURCE: Globe and Mail
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Love your blog, love the Blackberry!
I know this is an older post, but just to update it... Yesterday, a church in Nova Scotia, Canada also had a Blessing of Blackberrys! It got coverage in Canada's national newspapers as well as TIME magazine in the US. Links are available at my blog posting which also covers the event quite well. I'm expecting comments from the pastor as to how the response was to the event.
Check it out: Blessing of Blackberrys blog post by Ken Symes
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