Too Busy to Pray? Call Sinbusters

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Too Busy to Pray? Call Sinbusters

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MILAN, Italy (Reuters) - An Italian housewife has gone into

the prayer business to rescue the souls of people whose daily

grind leaves no time to attend to their own salvation.

For 3,000 lire ($1.50) Monica Ballinari, 26, will say a

prayer for a lost relative or perform the sign of the cross once

a day.

The new "Paradise" agency which she has started running

from her home in Varese, northern Italy, has a list of tariffs

that go up to 50,000 lire for a rosary sequence of five prayers.

For a more personal service, Ballinari will recite a prayer

in your home for 25,000 lire, excluding travel costs.

"Life has become so frantic that people don't have time to

do anything beyond work or family. That's why people have

stopped praying even though they feel a spiritual need to do

so," the mother and former actress told Il Giorno daily.

To drum up clients, the Paradise agency's brochure exhorts

its readers to remember they only have one soul. "If you don't

have time to save it, call me; I'll take care of it."

The sinbuster service is already having some success in

Catholic Italy. About 30 people have turned to professional

prayer including two "well-known people," Ballinari said.

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