Pope Benedict XVI texting out messages of encouragement

by Darren Murph, posted Jul 16th 2008 at 7:58AM

Don't act like you didn't know that Pope Benedict XVI was down with modern technology. As part of World Youth Day, the man himself will begin sending out texts of encouragement to pilgrims who have signed up through Telstra to receive them. A total of four gigantic "prayer walls" have been erected at the Sydney Opera House, the Domain, Darling Harbour and Randwick Racecourse in Australia, where folks will actually be able to send their own messages for all to presumably see. The first message sent out? "Young friend, God and his people expect much from u because u have within you the Fathers supreme gift: the Spirit of Jesus - BXVI." Hllujh, amn brtha.

[Thanks, zedster]

Filed under: Telstra, Misc

Tags: australia, catholic, church, Culture, iPhone, Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, PopeBenedictXvi, prayer wall, PrayerWall, religion, sms, Telstra, text, text message, text messaging, texting, TextMessage, TextMessaging

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Dave @ Jul 16th 2008 12:07PM

Someone's going to say it so I might as well...

"Look, the Pope with the Jesus Phone!"

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