Dallas — Biblezon is a digital tablet preloaded with Catholic resources one may take to Church, for retreats, or for personal prayers anywhere without the distractions of social media.
“Take your catholic faith with you everywhere with this sleek holy tablet,” says the inventor Mosongo Osong.
“Whether you want to read the bible, daily scriptures, pray rosary, read your favorite catholic book or simply learn more about your catholic faith, you want to have biblezon on your side. Most of all, you’ll love the ability to learn, live and organize your catholic faith in one place. Without any distraction,” says Osong.
“When you buy the tablet,” Osong explains, “you will be prompted to create an account with your name, email and also include a personal photo (not required). After you create an account, the home screen will pop-up. You will then be able to access all your catholic materials (bible, catechism, daily readings, prayers, rosary, shop & many more).”
Added tablet feature is that users will also be able to pray together, ask questions about their faith and connect with other Catholics.
On how the idea of biblezon started developing Osong recalls saying, “On when one morning, I wanted to read the daily meditations but found myself on Facebook and some other days I find myself either checking my email or doing something else. It was then that the idea of biblezon was fully born. I need a separate space for GOD and I believe we all do.”
The Man Behind the Tablet
“What are you doing to yourself?” This is what a 20-year-old young man quietly heard as he was getting ready for another night of heavy drinking and night clubs. His name was Mosongo, a high school drop out from Cameroon West Africa, at the end of his rope with no real purpose in life.
He had started his life out so well, a very good kid, calm, humble, honest, generous, intelligent and very athletic. The drugs and the wrong friends had changed his life’s direction and now no traces of that boy was left.
He stood there in his aunt’s room, and when he heard that question in the quiet of the early evening, he heard the voice of God. He fell on his knees and cried like the boy he once was.
Eight years later and on the other side of the world in Dallas, now married with four small children, he was a successful business man on his way to becoming a millionaire. But the emptiness of not knowing his Catholic faith led him to dive deep into the Catechism, the life of the saints, Church history, and the Church Fathers.
He read a lot of books and got tired of carrying them around to business meetings. It was at this time that apps really went mainstream. One day when he was praying Morning Prayer on the Laudate Droid app, it dawned on him to create the Biblezon company and its first tablet – a distraction-free Droid tablet loaded with prayer apps, the Bible, the Catechism, and stories of
the saints and Church history. Something that looks beautiful and can be brought into the sacredness of a church in front of the Blessed Sacrament.
Fast forward six more years, you have a company with nine employees and 2000 customers.
One cannot help but marvel at how, in God’s plan of sheer goodness, Africa is now leading the way in technology for the Catholic market, and even more importantly, in the re-evangelization of the West.
(This appeared in biblezon.com)