1 Minute to feeling goose-pimpley good about the Catholic Church

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Aquinas74 said:
Praxis, I hope you received my message regarding the ordination post. It was not my intention to cause you any injury. Hope you are at peace. God Bless.
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Thanks. No harm done and no worries…
 
Isn’t that commercial AWESOME??? I wish it would play on regular TV in my neck of the woods (San Francisco Bay Area.) Goodness knows we needs it…

Margaret
 
The commercial was very well done, but I thought it was unfortunate that they chose to emphasize material and humanitarian goods over the spiritual and eternal benefit of the Church.

The salvation of souls - the principal reason for which the Church exists - went unmentioned.
 
I should add that I know NOTHING about “Catholics Come Home.” I just love their 2 minute video! It played on EWTN during the Pope’s visit to the USA. When I saw it on TV it gave me goosebumps…
 
Dauphin said:
The commercial was very well done, but I thought it was unfortunate that they chose to emphasize material and humanitarian goods over the spiritual and eternal benefit of the Church.

The salvation of souls - the principal reason for which the Church exists - went unmentioned.
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Hogwash. Talk about a wet blanket!

Both were emphasized.

It also mentioned “United in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior…” amongst other things.

I wish you would have remained silent.
 
Praxis said:
Hogwash. Talk about a wet blanket!

Both were emphasized.

It also mentioned “United in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior…” amongst other things.

I wish you would have remained silent.
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I’m sorry, but it’s not in my nature to ignore such a glaring omission.

Let’s not get too heated in discussing this commercial. It’s not that important.

It’s just that I would have liked to have seen the purpose of the Church more clearly enunciated; the glorification of God, and the salvation of souls.
 
Dauphin said:
I’m sorry, but it’s not in my nature to ignore such a glaring omission.

Let’s not get too heated in discussing this commercial. It’s not that important.

It’s just that I would have liked to have seen the purpose of the Church more clearly enunciated; the glorification of God, and the salvation of souls.
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Seriously disagree. The bit ‘we’re praying for you every hour of every day in our Masses’ emphasise the spiritual benefits and the salvation of souls just fine. Not to mention the parts where the children are receiving the Eucharist or where people are attending Mass or Eucharistic adoration and lots of others.

IMHO the only glaring omission is the bit where you glaringly omitted, seemingly, to watch the whole ad WITHOUT hypercritical blinkers already on.
 
LilyM said:
What bit of ‘we’re praying for you every hour of every day in our Masses’ fails to emphasise the spiritual benefits the Church confers and the salvation of souls? Maybe it was the bit where they showed the kids receiving Holy Communion or the people adoring the Eucharist? Maybe the bit where they say CATHOLICS COME HOME?

Sheesh, did you even watch the ad? For real.
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I loved the video, it brought tears to my eyes…

I know there wasn’t a huge emphasis on the spiritual and eternal benefits, yet I am not sure anyone who is not Catholic would listen for a minute these days, with a strong emphasis on the spiritual and eternal benefits of being Catholic.

It is a case of bringing the message properly as an introduction. I am not sure if most Catholics have discovered their own faith enough to be able to outwardly communicate a message in that way. I believe it should be done and the website should contain more about submission to Christ and a dying to oneself. So I agree with Dauphin as it is sadly omitted, but that is common these days so I didn’t really expect the commercial to be made that way.

So I loved the commercial and I encourage it’s promotion as I also encourage Priests\Religious\Laity to rediscover their mission to seek the salvation of souls.

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Scylla
 
The Catholics Come Home website is great, and all three of the commercials at the bottom of the homepage are very well done. They emphasize different things, and aren’t meant to be all inclusive. They are little teasers, hopefully to get people to want to know more. I would love to contribute to have those on during the SuperBowl! Let’s try to make it happen! 👍
 
Different groups run commercials at big sporting events from time to time. The Mormons, certain Lutherans and I believe some Methodists come to mind. There are likely more. They all tout their religions of course.

I have always wondered what a Catholic versions of their commercials would look like. I have now seen it and it’s fairly stunning.

What do you think Carl Anderson? Negotiate with CatholicsComeHome, slap a Knights of Columbus emblem on it, and run it during the Superbowl! 😉

(Now that I type this, I wonder – would the networks even run it?)
 
Dauphin said:
I’m sorry, but it’s not in my nature to ignore such a glaring omission.

Let’s not get too heated in discussing this commercial. It’s not that important.

It’s just that I would have liked to have seen the purpose of the Church more clearly enunciated; the glorification of God, and the salvation of souls.
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There is no “glaring omission.” You yourself admit that “It’s not that important.” There is something in your nature that caused you to post this and I’m not at all entirely sure it’s positive…
 
This is an important ministry, and the commercials were well done. I pray that many fallen-away Catholics will watch and will be touched, and will want to come home to Christ in the Eucharist. Thank you, God, for your one, holy, catholic and apostolic Catholic Church!

I’m with the poster who wants to have these run on the Super Bowl broadcast!
 
Praxis said:
Wanna good case of the goose pimples in the most positive of ways? Watch this 2 minute video…

catholicscomehome.org/epic/epic120.phtml

I wish this would run at halftime during the Superbowl…
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Praxis, thank you for the link. What an absolutely beautiful ‘commercial’. For someone who is thinking about the church, it is a good, short introduction that conveys the sense of the church’s age and continuity. The ‘deeper’ stuff may not be mentioned, but it doesn’t need to be.
 
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