Using Technology to Get Teens to Pray
How can we use cell phones, mp3 players and social networks as tools to get kids into prayer? That was the question I addressed yesterday in my presentation at our annual diocesan inservice for Catholic teachers. I began with a quote from Jean-Pierre de Caussade: Today God still speaks to us as he used to speak to our ancestors at a time when there were neither spiritual directors nor any systems of spirituality…Religious devotion had not become a science crammed with precepts and detailed instructions. Nowadays, no doubt,...