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Pray As You Go

Pray As You Go is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Pray As You Go rather than just read about it. In short: Pray As You Go is a daily prayer website, podcast and application that was created in 2006 by the Jesuits in the United Kingdom. Since its founding it has been adapted into nine other languages and as of 2020, it is used 30 million times a year.

Key takeaways

Pray As You Go belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Pray As You Go to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Pray As You Go from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Pray As You Go is a daily prayer website, podcast and application that was created in 2006 by the Jesuits in the United Kingdom. Since its founding it has been adapted into nine other languages and as of 2020, it is used 30 million times a year.

Format Based on Ignatian spirituality, the website and its application has daily audio prayers that regularly use music, passages from the Bible and contemplations from the Spiritual Exercises, with reflective questions based on the examination of conscience. Later other prayers such as the rosary and Stations of the Cross were added.

History On 1 March 2006, Pray As You Go was launched. It was founded by Peter Scally who had previously worked on Sacred Space in Ireland and who went on to also found Thinking Faith, an online theology journal in 2008. An open, public trial began. However, after more than 250,000 prayer sessions were downloaded, it was decided to continue it indefinitely. It started as a website and a podcast, where it could be downloaded and then listened to later, allowing people to be able to do it while commuting or travelling. By March 2008, over five million prayer sessions had been downloaded. On 6 April 2014, a Pray As You Go mobile application was launched. Before 2015, a Spanish version was created and called Rezando Voy. During Lent 2017, the French version, Prie en Chemin was launched, which after two years had 30,000 users. In 2019, in conjunction with Christian Life Community in Egypt, an Arabic version called Fi Tariqi Osally (on my way, I pray) was launched. In 2020, it was launched on Amazon Alexa. As of 2020, it is available in over 180 countries and there is a version in Dutch called Bidden Onderweg, in Hungarian it is called Napi-útra-való, in Polish as Modlitwa w Drodze, Portuguese as Passo a Rezar, Ukrainian as iMolytva and Vietnamese as Phút cãu nguyên.

See also Saint Ignatius of Loyola List of Jesuit sites in the United Kingdom

References

External links Pray-As-You-Go.org

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Pray As You Go

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Pray As You Go claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Pray As You Go before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Pray As You Go ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Pray As You Go

In research: Pray As You Go appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Pray As You Go in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Pray As You Go is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Audio podcasts, British websites, Catholic Church in the United Kingdom, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Pray As You Go outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Pray As You Go in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Pray As You Go means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Pray As You Go out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Pray As You Go in simple terms?

Why does Pray As You Go matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Pray As You Go?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Pray As You Go.