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Mobiles blessed in special mass
Priest in Nice places smartphones, tablets and mobiles under protection of the archangel Gabriel
A PRIEST in Nice has blessed the tablets, smartphones and mobiles of parishioners.
In a scene described by local paper Nice Matin as “plugged-in” and by national newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur as resembling “a collective punishment for an ill-disciplined flock more concerned with their emails”, priests collected together the devices on a tray for the blessing.
The array of technological equipment was placed under the high protection of the arch angel Gabriel – the patron saint of messengers, by Father Gil Florini.
As an added technological twist, the service was broadcast online.
The service came just a few days after the pope’s cultural minister referred to Jesus as being the “first person to tweet” as his sermons were short and full of meaning.
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