{"id":7032,"date":"2010-01-12T14:16:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T19:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7032"},"modified":"2010-01-12T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T19:16:48","slug":"anglican-vicar-blesses-gadgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-vicar-blesses-gadgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican vicar blesses gadgets"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Church of England vicar is blessing gadgets<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Vicar gives high-tech blessing to mobile phones, laptops and BlackBerries.<\/p>\n

A vicar has blessed the mobile phones and laptops of city workers in a church ceremony.<\/p>\n

The Rev Canon David Parrott blessed a pile of laptops and smart phones on the altar of London’s 17th-century St Lawrence Jewry church.<\/p>\n

The ritual was an effort to remind the capital’s busy office workers that God’s grace can reach them in many ways, he said.<\/p>\n

Blessed be: The congregation hold up their mobile phones and Blackberries as Canon David Parrot conducts a service at the City of London Corporation’s church, St Lawrence Jewry, on Monday<\/p>\n

‘It’s the technology that is our daily working tool, and it’s a technology we should bless,’ Rev Parrott said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What exactly does it mean to \u201cbless\u201d a collection of chips on a printed circuit board? Very little, I suspect; coincidentally, Rev. Keith Nethery, media relations officer for the Anglican Diocese of Huron, has been wriggling vigorously here<\/a> trying to explain why, in the Diocese of Huron, it is kosher to Celebrate<\/a> <\/em>a same-sex marriage but not to Bless <\/em>it. Would he have a problem blessing a Mac running Vista one wonders, or would it be sufficiently deviant to be merely Celebrated.<\/em><\/p>\n

Most people would probably choose to have their computer exorcised rather than blessed. Come to think of it, perhaps that could apply to same-sex marriages, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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