Prayer for Technology: Christ Has No Online Presence…

A YouTube video prayer for the use of technology. Christ Has No Online Presence but Yours

Origins of the prayer as described by Meredith Gould on the DotMagis blog.

During December 2010, I visited Loyola Press to talk with the marketing and sales team about why, when and how to use social media. As part of my preparation, I hunkered down to take a more rigorous look at the Virtual Abbey, an online community offering the Daily Office via Twitter.  This virtual monastery seems to engage new and active participants on a weekly basis.

People are hungry for prayer as well as engagement in community.  Yearning to seek and find, they’re knocking on virtual doors that open into real experiences of faith lived out in the secular world.  The Virtual Abbey uses online technologies and tools to provide prayer, as well as community, for people of faith–and those who yearn to be.

My experience with the Virtual Abbey plus participating in an ongoing conversation about what it means to be “church” these days, inspired me to create this contemporary take on Saint Teresa of Avila’s well-known prayer,Christ Has No Body. For your consideration and contemplation.

In my imagination? I see Saint Teresa winking her approval!