UK vicar invokes God's blessing on BlackBerrys

LONDON: God bless this BlackBerry.

A venerable British church has done what e-mail addicts and workaholics have been doing for years - invoking the Almighty's blessing on their high-tech gadgets.

The Rev. Canon David Parrott blessed a symbolic heap of laptops and smart phones on the altar of London's 17th-century St. Lawrence Jewry church this week. An effort, he said, to remind the capital's busy office workers that grace can reach them in many ways.