St. Francis and St.Clare to be featured on TV broadcast in September

[stbruno]

usccb.org/comm/archives/2008/08-119.shtml Hopefully this will be a faithful broadcast without any underlying agenda.

 

[mark_a]

usccb.org/comm/archives/2008/08-119.shtml Hopefully this will be a faithful broadcast without any underlying agenda.

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[Dale_M]

Wow, air time for this special could be sometime in September or October, depending upon your local station - if they even show it.
interfaithbroadcasting.com/onair.aspx?PID=287
I hope the listings become a bit more beefy as we approach Sept. 14th.

As for underlying agenda, it was produced by Franciscan Communications and the St Anthony Messenger website is selling the DVD, so I am guessing it is faithful.

Here is a bit more about the film, from the Leaders Guide to it:

“Why after you? Why after you?” One of the first followers of St. Francis of Assisi put that question to him: “Francis, why does the whole world run after you?” Eight hundred years later, the question remains. Why does the whole world come to Assisi, birthplace of Francis and Clare? What spiritual attraction draws pilgrims and tourists, church leaders and heads of government, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and those without any creed to this ancient city in the Umbrian Valley of Italy?

This new film seeks to answer the question through the experience of real-life pilgrims who have walked in the footsteps of Francis and Clare. With the help of my executive producer, Domenick Morda, a lay Franciscan, and a gifted producer and cameraman in Assisi, I accompanied a group of pilgrims as they visited Assisi, Rome and other shrines associated with the lives of these two medieval saints in the spring of 2004.
We were fortunate to have the cooperation of the Franciscan Pilgrimage Programs, a Franciscan-run group from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who organized and led our group. Following the location shooting in Italy, I interviewed other pilgrims back in the U.S. All the pilgrims we spoke with—both on location and after their return—revealed the reasons why they came on pilgrimage, and the spiritual discoveries they found there.

To complete the “pilgrimage experience,” I spoke with several Franciscan pilgrim guides, Franciscan author and poet Murray Bodo, Clare scholar Margaret Carney, and pilgrimage leaders Tod Laverty, Roch Niemier, and Joanne Schatzlein. Their expertise helped unfold the stories of the various places and events in the lives of Francis and Clare that mark the pilgrims’ road.

catalog.americancatholic.org/guide/pdf/D1222_guide_Assisi_Pilgrimage.pdf

 

[puzzleannie]

not in our area, unless another satellite channel carries it, I will keep that link about the DVD