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Here’s a good one for you religious shoppers and you who are religious about technology:

The Rev. Canon David Parrott blessed a heap of laptops and smart phones on the altar of London’s 17th-century St. Lawrence Jewry church on Monday.

“It’s the technology that is our daily working tool, and it’s a technology we should bless,”

Parrott said.
The brief blessing capped Monday’s services at the Christopher Wren-designed building – the official church of the Corporation of the City of London, which runs the capital’s bustling financial district.
Parishioners took out cell phones and other devices as Reverend Parrott recited a blessing. A few churchgoers even held their phones up in the air as he ran through the prayer.

The blessing ceremony was an update of a traditional back-to-work ceremony called “Plow Monday,” in which villagers gathered to bless a symbolic farming implement dragged to the door of the church. Parrott said that ceremony didn’t have much relevance for his church, which was

“nowhere near a field in the middle of London.”

The Reverend Parrot took up his post at St. Lawrence Jewry (so-called on account that it stands in what was once the capital’s Jewish neighborhood) about seven months ago. He said that he hoped the ceremony had made worship

“lively and relevant to the people who work nearby, in the financial district.”

Parrot said parishioners were welcome to leave their phones on during the service – but only as long as they kept them on silent.
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