Spotify Nuns and a Skateboard Friar who won an Emmy

[DameAgnes]

http://aleteia.org/blogs/deacon-greg-kandra/watch-hip-new-ad-for-spotify-featuring-some-rocking-nuns/

http://aleteia.org/2016/04/06/the-skateboarding-friar-that-took-home-an-emmy/

 

Edited April 6, 2016 by DameAgnes

[Gabriela]

Are these the same nuns who made that music video where they're up on the roof of a mall? I think those were Franciscans... I believe they're Mexican.

As for the friar:

"Friar Gabriel started skateboarding long before he had to worry about a habit getting caught in the wheels. For seven years he honed his skills before he eventually discerned a vocation to religious life and left the skate park for the friary. There he would go six years without touching his board.

Then one day his superior gave him an unusual order: get a skateboard and go to the skate park once a week, evangelizing with his witness. And faithful to his vow of obedience Friar Gabriel went. He has reached so many people while skateboarding, especially young men, with his countercultural testimony."

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