God bless those Catholics - they're really on top of things.
Seems that they've come up with a Patron Saint of the Internet.

St Isadore
Not
only did they come up with a Patron Saint for us,
there's a special prayer to say before going online.
Well, what the hell, it couldn't hurt...
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Prayer before logging on to the Internet Almighty and eternal God, who hast created us in Thy image and hast bidden us to seek after all that is good, true and beautiful,especially in the divine person of Thy only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, grant we beseech Thee that, through the intercession of Saint Isidore, bishop and doctor, during our journeys through the internet we will direct our hands and eyes only to that which is pleasing to Thee and treat with charity and patience all those souls whom we encounter. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Of course, we think prayer is more effective and certainly more dramatic when it is spoken in Latin. You do know Latin, don't you...? Oratio ante colligationem in Interrete factam Omnípotens aetérne Deus, qui nos secúndum imáginem Tuam plasmásti, et omnia bona, vera, pulchra, praesértim in divína persóna Unigéniti Fílii Tui Dómini nostri Iesu Chrísti, quaérere iussísti, praesta quaésumus ut, per intercessiónem Sancti Isidóri, Epíscopi et Doctóris, in peregrinatiónibus per interrete factis et manus oculósque ad quae Tibi sunt plácita intendámus et omnes quos convénimus cum caritáte ac patiéntia accipiámus. Per Christum Dóminum nostrum. Amen. |