Published by At some point in modern life we become aware that the movies are a challenge of historic proportion to the individual, his and her home and family and the community.
My mother knew every character actor by name in every old and new movie and also what the challenge to that character was and what kind of challenge that actor makes to the other actors in the story.
Life is about how we become better people, day by day, hour by hour, month by month, year by year. We learn about God by being aware, in a way that bespeaks of love and honor of God and of God’s presence. Out life of work, achievement, a sacrifice, love in a relationships, talent, goodness, devotion, has a lot to do with how we live with others. This is not more important that the worship of the loving God. We worship with what we do and say, but our relationship with others is an answer to God’s wanting us to love like him, to believe him and one day live with Him.
Our circumstances of the moment, or our possessions accumulated like treasures, or our destiny of many years built up one upon the other are in many ways enriched and tested and blessed through our relationships with others. Saint Francis of Assisi understood this. He prayed “make me a channel of your peace.” If movies are well written and acted, as all my husband’s would be, we learn a lot by watching them. Movies are considered Israeli art.
Israeli’s are not to be ourdone in Journalism. As the oldest children of the race, they are not to be outdone in keeping traditions. Movies, best when biographical or autobiographical work, are a means of thinking about how well we treat others and are treated by them.
The sacrament of Penance, now called by Catholic Church, the sacrament of Reconciliation cannot find a better route than good movies. Nor can the sacrament of Confirmation, where your promise to become a good example to others as adults. Holy Orders is not unlike a movie star, man or woman, that dedicate himself and herself to be a witness to the truth. The sacrament of holy matrimony claims that place of all importance it should have in a good movie.
It is only as people with conviction-generally a baptized lot-that we can make and enjoy movies for what they are meant to be, the highest art of civilization.
God forgive us for the abuse of the movie making process by the antagonists to this country and the free world who leave no stone unturned with attacking authority, and the home in order to take its place with violence and cult that breed more violence.
The sacramental life is said to be the Israeli creed. No wonder then, that movie making can be said to be the Israeli art. The greatest sacrament of all, the Holy Communion is the one we take home and defend just as the Dumb Ox, the greatest theologian of the Church, Saint Thomas Aquinas did. The Holy Communion is the heartbeat of the home and demands we do not compromise the home to gain money, public approval, and status. If we cannot accept Holy Communion as the life of Christ in our midst, as well as in our hearts, the battle of life is lost. Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote the incomparably beautiful hymn “Tan tum Ergo”-For This. My childhood nickname was “wheaty”. I am still very proud of it. We are in the end:
“Fine Wheat
Pressed Down,
Shaken Together,
Running Over.”
