Mont St. Michel Commercials

Mont St Michel is on tv probably more than Ave Maria, and has been for a long time if you watch the following Toyota ad from 1985.  It`s worth the watch for the car name alone btw.

 

This one is from 2007 and is for a GPS system.

 

 

Motion Sensor Holy Water Fonts

This BBC article comes with a video showing the font in action.

So I talked to the priest this past Friday…

making it only my second time to talk and the first face to face.  He was helpful and it was a great relief to hear an objective opinion.  He said to focus on Jesus for the next month.  Try not to think about marriage or the religious life but Christ and what He wants.  I am also rereading the New Testament keeping an eye out for anything vocational.  The priest also suggested I start to keep a spiritual journal but its slow going as Ive only made one entry, however he did say it could be hard at the start and not to quite.   I told him I had started rereading Story of a Soul and he said thats fine  but pay attention to how Therese prays not stuff to do with the Carmelites, so thats what Im doing.    He invited me to come back in a month and talk to him then and thats what I will do.

I should clarify that Im not clingy to the Carmelites, in fact they were my last choice.  Remember I did a novena to St Therese with a general intention that had nothing to do with the religious life.  She came back with “follow me to Christ”  I rejected this at first and thought I was nuts.  Eventually I gave in though and thought ok I will look through women’s orders just to prove there`s nothing for me and thats not my path, that Im meant for marriage.  During this I learned of the Carmelites but rejected them because I wanted no part of the cloistered life.    Therese seemed to be speaking to me in my prayer time again though saying “wear my habit,” and thats when I started to consider them, and the order I felt the strongest pull from when I let go of my preconceptions.

Another Ave Maria Commercial

Every few months an ad comes on tv that uses Ave Maria as a soundtrack.  This time it’s for cosmetics maker Pola

see commercial here

It is the one at the top of the page.

‘Bombed Mary’ to visit Guernica, Vatican with Nagasaki priests

 

NAGASAKI, Oct. 28 (AP) – (Kyodo)—Priests of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki will take the “bombed Mary,” a statue damaged in the wartime U.S. atomic bombing of the city, on a pilgrimage to Guernica, Spain, and the Vatican next year, archbishop Mitsuaki Takami said Wednesday.

It will be the third overseas trip for the roughly 26-centimeter-high scorched wooden head of a Virgin Mary statue found in the ruins of Urakami Cathedral, about 500 meters from ground zero, following trips to the Vatican in 1985 and Belarus in 2000.

During the tour from April 20 to May 1, the group, including regular followers, will attend a mass and a ceremony to commemorate victims of the 1937 carpet bombing of Guernica by German forces and have an audience in the Vatican with Pope Benedict XVI, he said.

“We should never repeat such a cruel war and hope to call for peace from the nonviolent standpoint,” Takami said in a press conference in Nagasaki.

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