The site is updated daily, guiding users through a ten-minute session of prayer centered on a passage of scripture.

McGuckian and Scally noticed that increasing numbers of office workers sit at a computer for hours every day, often doing repetitive work.

Ave Maria Press, Veritas and Jesuit Communications in Manila, also bring out annual volumes of Sacred Space - The Prayer Book of which a Kindle edition is also available from Amazon.

According to Piaras Jackson, an Irish Jesuit priest who has been involved with the site for a number of years, only five percent of users are from Ireland.

Jackson attributes the popularity of Sacred Space to the facts that it is immediately available 24/7, current with daily scripture readings; and allows anonymity, requiring no log-in.