EWTN were filming myself and Fr Dominic Allain today at ...[whirr zck zck... telly intro mode on...]
... the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception in the heart of London's fashionable Mayfair district. The Church is known to Catholic Londoners simply as "Farm Street" ...
[ping ping... click ... telly mode off]
I was giving a reflection on the fourth Sunday of Advent. It was rather odd wearing a purple stole and having an Advent wreath lit in front of me. Even odder to see the hangings changed to rose for Fr Allain's third Sunday of Advent talk.
The photo on the left was taken while the crew were setting up for Fr Allain. It does not give a true impression at all because the Church looked warm and golden, with the sanctuary enhanced by the studio lights. My little ultra-cheapo camera manages to make it all look terribly gloomy (I think I would do better using the mobile phone camera). Having seen some of the footage on the TV monitor, I can assure you that the cameraman and his crew have done justice to this beautiful Church. He is also going to have to go off and photo the places I mentioned as being nearby - well they did ask me to add in some points of local interest :-)
I asked when the programme "Catholic Lives" with Joanna Bogle was going to be broadcast but nobody knew. If you see this in the EWTN schedules, please let me know so I can tell people here who may want to watch it.
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Congratulation!! Any clues as to when it's going to air, and whether American viewers of EWTN will get a chance to see the reflections?
Please let me know.
God bless,
Tom
I'm looking forward to watching your reflections, Father.
The Farm Street Church was one of the highlights of my all-too-brief trip to London. If I can ever go back (right now the value of the dollar makes it extremely prohibitive), I hope to attend Mass there. Amazing statuary and side chapels.
I saw Joanna Bogle's programme on at 10.30pm last week (Sunday and Monday)
Just reading an authorised biography of Mother Angelica..i presume you all know her charismatic..singing in tongues..slain in the spirit background..not that i'm criticising her but she was always orthodox in her Catholic beliefs then..just so people remember it doesn't all have to be about birettas & latin..
Tom - the Advent reflections will air on the Sundays to which they refer. So mine will be on the 4th Sunday of Advent. I asked them and they said they will be shown in both Europe and the USA.
Dear Mrs. Jackie,
The charismatic renewal is a stop along many people's spiritual journeys. I suppose Mother's did in fact end up at "birettas and Latin".
Hang on, what are you doing here? One minute vilifying television, its malign influence, denying its evangelistic power, urging your readers not to watch it at the expense of losing their souls. Then consenting to preach on it. You and Joanna Bogle, another anti-television freak who jumps at every chance to appear on it, are nothing if not inconsistent when it suits your own interests. I imagine when you are elected Pope your first action will be to ban television coverage of the event in its entirety in case it corrupts the world. In that unlikely case, no bad thing.
Jackie,
Such 70's behavior was something many of us here in the States mistakenly embraced at one time.
As you'll find deeper in the book, like many American Catholics once interested in such things, Mother has long ago left such misguided devotion in the dust.
Anon - hello again. Still wanting to make the same point, I see. You might want to consider some of the points that I clarified in Further thoughts on television. On the other hand, you might be happy just attacking me and Joanna as hypocrites whenever I mention doing something for EWTN.
Till next time, I suppose ...
Anon - We are asked by the Church to USE the media, tainted though it is (like money) to help win souls and preach the gospel. That is not the same as planting oneself in front of it for four hours a night to watch pornography. Some of us need to hear that our TV viewing habit needs to shrink so that our souls can grow.
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