Gary V: ‘Sometimes we need to be dismayed to see the need to pray’

With church services kept to a bare minimum and in-person Masses down to a 10th of a church’s usual capacity due to pandemic restrictions, community worship has all but ceased. They have been replaced—one hopes only temporarily—by online Masses and prayer meetings.

Pray is another app available for download that has become the world’s top app for daily prayer and Bible-based audio content. Launched five years ago in 2017, it has gone on to reach more that 10 million people worldwide. Like others who didn’t know what to expect as the weeks and months in lockdown crawled by, Valenciano relied on prayer.

The audio material he recorded for pray.com is not as dire. In fact, it’s designed to put you to sleep. As part of the category Bedtime Bible Stories, he tells the tale of Joseph and his brothers. He tried it out on TV host Robi Domingo when they were on a tour for the noontime show “ASAP” years ago. Valenciano let Domingo listen to one of the stories, and watched as he reacted.

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