Gastronomy and Missionary Spirit.

Leau Vive,Via Monterone, 85,Rome

What has food to do with missionaries and evangelization? The time tested theory of entering the heart of the man through the stomach!. Oops no.  Leau Vive is refreshingly delightful and avant garde evangelization.  Step into the simple but elegant 'Ristorante Leau Vive' and you are ushered in with a  a broad smile from one of the nuns who is the front desk manager.  You are into a restaurant run by nuns to support missionary work.  There is a spring in the step and another nun with a more broader smile comes to offer the delicacies of the restaurant. The finest of French cuisines prepared and served with oodles of sincere smiles by a lay-hood sisterhood of missionary nuns from five continents dressed in traditional costumes.  The Renaissance frescoed roofs just dips into the ambience lending it an unmistaken elegant touch. The spread is delicious from the best of French delicacies. The sisters break the traditional classical music that surrounds the diners with  a rendering of 'Ave Maria of Lourdes' and a short interpretation of the Bible is also on cards on some evenings.   With a restaurant chain extending into five continents, this is no small shop...http://www.restaurant-eauvive.it/ 

The dinner exploded with another surprise, when the singing sextet came in with a surprising 'Auguri'.  It was an afternoon well spent, but I could not but go back to the thoughts of how daring these nuns were to raise resources for missionary work  instead of the traditional methods.  I was taken up by the ingenuity of the idea to appeal to the heart through this gastronomic delight.  Maybe a cue taken right out of the words of Jesus, that nothing which enters you can be the source of evil, but what comes out of you.