Saturday, August 22, 2009

A Little More About Lourdes

Some of us old-timers may remember this song by Andy Williams. Someone has posted a Lourdes slide show to it:


Here is the official website of the shrine:


Note the webcams. You can watch the candlelight rosary procession live, 9:00 P.M. Lourdes time, 2:00 P.M. St. Louis time. The last two nights it has been massive.

In the many times I have marched in the candlelight procession here, I have often thought of the last scene from Walt Disney's Fantasia. You may recall that the scene begins with a terrifying interpretation of Moussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, and then fades into a candlelight Ave Maria. Minus Moussorgsky, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2ckBb_KqlU

Lourdes is far more chaotic, but the inspiration is the same.
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