An Italian priest developed a computer program that will allow the priests celebrating Mass with IPAD on the altar instead of the normal liturgical book.
Padrini Paolo's father, an adviser to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications Vatican said Friday it will launch the free application in July in English, Spanish, French, Italian and Latin.
Two years ago, Padrini iBreviary developed an iPhone application that led to the missal used by the priests. To date, approximately 200,000 people have downloaded the application, he said.
The application of IPAD is similar, but also contains the complete Roman Missal: everything that is said and sung during the Mass for the liturgical year. Updates are expected to include audio as well as comments and suggestions for the homilies, and music accompanying Padrini added.
"The paper books will never disappear," he said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from his parish in Tortona, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. But at the same time "should not shock us that there are altars in these instruments in support of the prayer," he said.
Padrini, 36, said he hoped that priests who have to travel a lot for work are more useful applications, noting that recently had to celebrate Mass in a small parish where the Missal was "a small book, a little dirty, old .
"If I had my IPAD me, I would have had this little old book," he said.
Pope Benedict XVI, a classical music lover who is said gave him an iPod in 2006, has sought to engage young people through new media: the Vatican has regularly updated presence on YouTube and Facebook. Based on the success of iBreviary.
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