Billy Graham "Every time I preach or speak about the Cross, the things I saw on the screen will be on my heart and mind."
Patrick J. Buchanan from WorldNetDaily:
But Gibson's "Passion" gives us a Lenten masterpiece,
a beautiful moving work of art. To cradle Catholics who can
recite the lines of each episode before they are uttered, it is faithful
to the Gospels, to the Stations of the Cross, to the Sorrowful
Mysteries of the Rosary.
http://www.cin.org/Miravalle.html
Marian Worship - In The Passion of the Christ, Gibson has
accomplished a Marian feat no pastor or theologian could achieve in the same
way. He has given the world through its most popular visual medium a portrayal
of a real human mother, whose heart is inseparably united to her sons heart.
This mothers heart is pierced to its very depths as she spiritually shares in
the brutal immolation of her innocent son. Hers is an immaculate heart, which
silently endures and offers this suffering with her son for the same heavenly
purpose: to buy back the human race from sin. Mary
Co-redemptrix has been given her first international film debut in a
supporting role, and its a hit.
Office of Film and Broadcasting, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: The Passion ... is a composite of the Passion narratives in the four Gospels embroidered with non-scriptural traditions as well as the imaginative inspiration of the filmmaker. The result is a deeply personal work of devotional art a moving Stations of the Cross, so to speak. However, by choosing to narrow his focus almost exclusively to the Passion of Christ, Gibson has, perhaps, muted Christ's teachings, making it difficult for viewers unfamiliar with the New Testament and the era's historical milieu to contextualize the circumstances leading up to Jesus' arrest. And though, for Christians, the Passion is the central event in the history of salvation, the "how" of Christ's death is lingered on at the expense of the "why?"
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