For Greater Glory (movie)

[Byzantine]

I saw it. My friends and I sat through what I guess were most of the end credits in silence. It was an amazing movie.

[Groo the Wanderer]

reminds me...need to get me a long barrel and brush up my sharpshooting. for when the modern federales invade....

[AnneLine]

There's an interesting parallel post to this in the Vocation Station about the Patheos commentary on the film by the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles, who were founded during this persecution.

I posted the following comment there earlier today (I know a lot of you don't hang out in there....)

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As I noted before, I had a friend who entered this commuinity many years ago. At the time she entered, (in the 1980's) many of the Sisters who had escaped from Mexico were still alive.... that would have only been about 50 years after the persecutions!). They told some hair raising stories of what THEIR postulant lives had been like -- living in small groups hidden in private homes.

She told me that the Sisters treasured [their mother foundress] Mother Luisita's letters, and that they read them in Community sometimes (such as during meals). ...

They were written in code. I seem to recall that Mother Luisita would talk about 'engagements' (receiving the habit) and 'weddings' )vows - and visits from relatives (usually bishops and priests....) and when a sister was going on a long visit (such as going to the US).

My friend told me that one of her favorite moments was when the Sister who was the superior of the house in which she was living at the time was one mentioned in Mother Luisita's letters as getting 'married' (i.e., making her vows....) and that one of 'Ignatius' sons' (a Jesuit) was coming to be there for the 'wedding' --- it was the superior of the house, and the sisters spontaniously broke into applause when that section was read!!!! I love it!!!!! Many of those elderly sisters had known Bl. Miguel Pro and many of the other martyrs....

The Carmelite Sisters have a big section on Ven. Mother Luisita on their web, including a link where you can read her letters, and read some other historical documents from the period. The link is on the right hand, yellowish column.

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Enjoy!

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Edited June 10, 2012 by AnneLine

[Odin]

Still need to see it! Glad people like it!

[CatherineM]

I can't wait to see it. It's the reason my Godmother ended up in the US in 1923.

[Maximilianus]

[quote name='Groo the Wanderer' timestamp='1339288518' post='2443034']
reminds me...need to get me a long barrel and brush up my sharpshooting. for when the modern federales invade....
[/quote]

don't forget the bigote.

[Clare~Therese]

So I went & watched it again, this time with my father (he's not Catholic and didn't seem to completely understand the historical situation portrayed) because he hadn't seen it yet. And afterward he was all like, "It was overly dramatized, and they made--what's his name--Jose's death look like a death march or something from a Jesus movie on purpose, for drama...etc. And they were dressed too nicely all the time for living in a tent city in the middle of a desert."

And yesterday I went to Confession and my Confessor and me had this conversation:
My Confessor: "So I heard you saw [i]For Greater Glory[/i] last weekend."
Me: "Yeah."
Mi Confesor: "Did you like it?"
Me: "Yeah, it was razzle dazzle."
Confessor: "That's good. I'm going to see it this weekend."
Me: "That's good."

Then he was giving his homily and was saying, "And they [the Cristero martyrs] would hold out their arms like this, and they would say, 'Vivo Cristo Rey!'"
And I was thinking, [i]Padre, that's not the correct Spanish. You're saying, 'I live Christ the King.' That doesn't make much sense. It should be, 'Viv[u]a[/u] Cristo Rey.' [/i]

[eagle_eye222001]

[quote name='Clare~Therese' timestamp='1339432092' post='2443493']
So I went & watched it again, this time with my father (he's not Catholic and didn't seem to completely understand the historical situation portrayed) because he hadn't seen it yet. And afterward he was all like, "It was overly dramatized, and they made--what's his name--Jose's death look like a death march or something from a Jesus movie on purpose, for drama...etc. And they were dressed too nicely all the time for living in a tent city in the middle of a desert."[/quote]

[irony]Move was too Catholic too.....just as Schindler's List was over dramatized and too Jewish.[/irony]





[quote]And yesterday I went to Confession and my Confessor and me had this conversation:
My Confessor: "So I heard you saw [i]For Greater Glory[/i] last weekend."
Me: "Yeah."
Mi Confesor: "Did you like it?"
Me: "Yeah, it was razzle dazzle."
Confessor: "That's good. I'm going to see it this weekend."
Me: "That's good."

Then he was giving his homily and was saying, "And they [the Cristero martyrs] would hold out their arms like this, and they would say, 'Vivo Cristo Rey!'"
And I was thinking, [i]Padre, that's not the correct Spanish. You're saying, 'I live Christ the King.' That doesn't make much sense. It should be, 'Viv[u]a[/u] Cristo Rey.' [/i]
[/quote]

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