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Where prayer is on the menu: evangelization, French cuisine served at lay Carmelites' L'Eau Vive restaurants.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 15-JUL-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Where prayer is on the menu: evangelization, French cuisine served at lay Carmelites' L'Eau Vive restaurants.(ROME TOURBOOK)

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The patrons were well into their second course, sipping glassfuls of Bordeaux and slicing into thick filets, when the background music stopped and a voice came over the speaker system.

"Dear friends," the voice said. "Let us pray to Mary for Pope Benedict XVI." Moments later, the lights dimmed, prayer cards were distributed and a dozen Asian and African waitresses processed into the dining room, clad in traditional dress and bearing votive candles. To the strum of a guitar, they lifted their candles toward a Madonna statuette at the far end of the room and chanted a hymn penned by the restaurant's founder.

"The Lord calls us. The Lord wants to convert us," they sang.

The chants are a nightly ritual at L'Eau Vive (Living Water), an international chain of French restaurants that has turned gastronomy into an instrument of global evangelization.

Run by the Travailleuses Missionaires de la Conception Immaculee (Missionary Workers...

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