The Pope recently encouraged people “to proclaim the gospel by employing the latest generation of audiovisual resources.” This free download does just that.
With gorgeous paintings by artist Michael O’Brien, the new “Stations of the Cross” app is designed to transport users anytime, anywhere to a prayerful journey of solidarity with Christ from the Garden of Gethsemane, to His betrayal and arrest and on His agonizing way to the cross.
Ave Maria Press debuted its first-ever iPhone app at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress in March. This prayer companion is free for download and is based on the popular John Paul II’s Biblical Way of the Cross by Amy Welborn and Michael Dubruiel.
This new product follows on the heels of the World Communications Day address by Pope Benedict XVI, in which he urged priests “to proclaim the gospel by employing the latest generation of audiovisual resources (images, videos, animated features, blogs, Web sites), which alongside traditional means can open broad new vistas for dialogue, evangelization and catechesis.”
Ave Maria Press publisher Tom Grady said, “We are delighted to explore creative digital ways of keeping our readers connected to God through prayer. It’s our hope that many will take advantage of this free prayer resource.”
Ave Maria Press is a ministry of the Indiana Province of Holy Cross.
