let us pray

[lizziebelle]

Ad sales have been way down, which is not really a surprise, since sales of just about everything are down these days. One type of ad, however, is selling like hotcakes: prayer ads. Those are way up. Go figure. Prayers to the Holy Spirit, the Blessed Virgin, and St. Jude are peppering the pages of the Reminder lately

Comments

[leenah]

oh, nascar is fun!

-- says she who dated a stock car driver, and grew up in the South which seems to be NASCAR central.

[lizziebelle]

It may be fun, but I don't get it. ;)

Love the icon! Talk about va-va-voom...

[leenah]

well, honestly, people watch it for the crashes. sad but true.

and, for me, there's something about that *sound* coming from a tv set that just hits some childhood memory.

the few times i was at the track the sound was ENORMOUS. and i watched in hopes there would be no crashes. it was scary.

but the bar at the racetrack was fab! sleazy old thing, the size of a classroom, barely lit. i do love dive bars.

someone posted a picspam of david tennant, and ooooooh. i do like 'em geeky. nerdly boys, sigh. -- and my stock car driver was nerdly, for a guy who drove race cars and had long hair. HE WORE GLASSES. sigh. eyeglasses. sigh.

[pjthompson]

Not a completely new thing for Christians, but they've forgotten the old days:

http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Christian-Magic-Marvin-Meyer/dp/0691004587/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229637224&sr=1-1

I've always thought a lot of Xtian prayer rituals were just that-magic rituals. Like burying a statue of St. Jospeh (upside down) on your property in order to sell the place fast. But like you said, they'd hotly deny it was magic. People are such odd creatures.

[lizardqueen]

Oh, TOTAL magic! Candle magic, and salutes/blessings to the Quarters, and all the other stuff. But noooooo! It's not MAGIC. [rolls eyes so hard they end up in Patagonia]

I wonder if St. Jude, the BVM and the Holy Spirit REALLY read all those newspaper ads...and how St. Joseph feels about how having his statue buried upside down.

[anaquana]

and how St. Joseph feels about how having his statue buried upside down.

I've actually heard of Italian Catholics who will threaten and even humiliate their statues of saints if the saint in question doesn't pull through for them.

[joanofarchetype]

I don't get NASCAR either.

Teacup dogs, well, just think of them as pocket Terminator spotters!