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| Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’ begins filming in August, Jim Caviezel back as Jesus |
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Posted by: Stone - 03-27-2025, 11:55 AM - Forum: General Commentary
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Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ’ begins filming in August, Jim Caviezel back as Jesus
Mel Gibson’s sequel, 'The Resurrection of the Christ,' begins filming in August 2025 in Rome, with Jim Caviezel reprising his role as Our Lord.
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Jim Caviezel portraying Jesus in 'The Passion of the Christ'
The Passion of the Christ, Sioux Falls Catholic
Mar 27, 2025
(LifeSiteNews) — The much-anticipated sequel to Mel Gibson’s 2004 film, The Passion of the Christ, is scheduled to begin filming in August, with Jim Caviezel returning to his role as Jesus.
In an interview with Italian news outlet Il Sole 24 Ore, Manuela Cacciamani, CEO of Cinecittà Studios, announced that the filming of The Resurrection of the Christ will begin in August at their Rome-based studio.
“I can confirm that the next film directed by Mel Gibson, produced by Icon Productions, ‘The Resurrection of Christ,’ will be shot entirely in Cinecittà starting in August and requires many theaters and stage constructions,” Cacciamani said
According to information obtained by Variety, in addition to the studio, some of the filming will take place in the ancient southern Italian town of Matera, and other rural locations in southern Italy including Ginosa, Gravina Laterza and Altamura.
The film, directed by Mel Gibson, will also see the return of Jim Caviezel in his role as Jesus Christ.
According to IMDB, Maia Morgenstern, who played Our Lady, and Francesco De Vito, who played St. Peter, will also be in the new production.
The latest information about the film comes two months after Gibson appeared for an interview on the popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast, in which the Catholic director said the new movie is “very ambitious” and will recount “the fall of the angels to the death of the last apostle.”
“I think in order to really tell the story properly you have to really start with the fall of the angels, which means you’re in another place, you’re in another realm. You need to go to hell. You need to go to Sheol,” he explained.
“It’s about finding the way in that’s not cheesy or too obvious,” Gibson continued. I think I have ideas about how to do that and how to evoke things and emotions in people from the way you depict it and the way you shoot it.”
“So I’ve been thinking about it for a long time,” he said. “It’s not going to be easy, and it’s going to require a lot of planning and I’m not wholly sure I can pull it off; to tell you the truth, it’s super ambitious. But I’ll take a crack at it because that’s what you’ve got to do, right, walk up to the plate, right?”
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| Archbishop Viganò: Homily for the Annunciation to Mary Most Holy |
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Posted by: Stone - 03-26-2025, 10:09 AM - Forum: Archbishop Viganò
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Mons. Carlo Maria Viganò
Ecce ancilla Domini
Homily for the Annunciation to Mary Most Holy
Et verbum caro factum est,
et habitavit in nobis.
Jn 1:14
On the twenty-fifth of March, we celebrate the Annunciation of the Archangel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and along with it the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity in the womb of the Virgin. The Word became flesh and came to dwell among us: these simple words contain within themselves that ineffable Mystery, thanks to which the Redemption was initiated for us. Many Christian nations, such as the Grand Duchy of Tuscany or the Republic of Pisa, Luxembourg, Dauphiné, Savoy, the Kingdom of Navarre, and Hungary calculated the beginning of the civil year not on the first of January, as is the custom today, but on the twenty-fifth of March, in what historians call the “Style of the Incarnation”, which brought the Christian New Year forward to coincide with the spring equinox.
This date therefore marks a historical event, reported in the Holy Gospels, which nine months later would lead the Virgin Mary, traveling with Saint Joseph to Bethlehem for the census ordered by Emperor Caesar Augustus, to find refuge in a stable and give birth to Emmanuel, God with us.
In the National Museum of Capodimonte, in Naples, we can admire a painting by Pietro Novelli (1603-1647), from Palermo, in which the Holy Trinity is depicted in the foreground, sending the Archangel to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Eternal Father offers Gabriel a lily, so that he may bring that symbol of purity to the Ever-Virgin Mother of God, intact in her Virginity before, during, and after giving birth. This splendid painting offers us the contemplation of the Incarnation from a different perspective, which is almost unique in Christian iconography. Usually, the artist represents the Annunciation by showing the scene of the Archangel bursting into the house of Our Lady, depicted while she is kneeling in prayer. In medieval paintings, the words Ave gratia plena come from Gabriel’s mouth, and the words Ecce ancilla Domini from Mary’s. Here, however, we see the chronologically preceding scene in which, almost with human dynamics, the Most August Trinity summons its Divine Messenger, giving him instructions. And the Virgin is small and distant, almost unaware of what awaits her shortly thereafter.
The Feast of the Annunciation always falls during the season of Lent, signifying that God works the greatest miracles when man recognizes himself in his real condition of misery, in his nothingness. And the more we are aware of depending totally on God – not only on a supernatural level but also on a natural – the more He deigns to fill us with His Grace and His gifts. Ecce ancilla Domini: the holiest of creatures, preserved from every stain of sin by a very special Divine Privilege, proclaims herself to be a servant, and becomes Lady, Queen, and Mother of God precisely because Her humility – and along with it the awareness of the need to travel with Christ along the Royal Way of the Cross – is the necessary pre-condition for the Almighty to accomplish great things in Her. Quia respexit humilitatem ancillæ suæ: ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes generationes. Conversely, in pride the creature rises to compete with the Creator, arrogantly usurps from Him that glory which is reflected to the humble by grace, and claims to have rights – a blasphemous dignitas infinita – that it cannot claim and which merits it not only being repelled into its nothingness, but being sunk even lower. Dispersit superbos mente cordis sui, deposuit poteres de sede, et exaltavit humiles.
And as we contemplate the humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the destiny of glory and honor that the Holy Trinity has established for Her, we cannot fail to contemplate the humility of the Eternal Word, who descends from the infinite glory of Heaven in order to Incarnate Himself in the womb of the Virgin Mary, in obedience to the Father, to expiate on behalf of humanity for sins that are not His, to give His life for us miserable sinners, to restore the divine order that out of pride we have dared to violate. This concept is made explicit in some representations of the Annunciation, in which a ray coming from heaven shows the Holy Spirit descending upon the Virgin, followed by a Baby Jesus holding the Cross.
In Pietro Novelli’s painting we do not find the Virgin set aside, nor do we see Her neglected or diminished in Her Providential cooperation in the work of Redemption; on the contrary, we see the humility of the Word emphasized, who obediently accepts becoming flesh, in order to become the expiatory victim for our sins, and to become food: Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink (Jn 6:54-55). That Most Holy Body was formed in the womb of the Virgin Mother, so that that Sacred Flesh could be torn in the sufferings of the Passion and that Precious Blood could flow from the Wounds and Side of Christ as the perfect cleansing of our sins. In this mystery we recognize the Compassion and Co-Redemption of the Mother of God – Regina Crucis – not only in union with the Redemption of Her Son, but even in having given to God, through the work of the Holy Spirit, that human body which made Him True Man and True God; which in the theandric union makes Our Lord Jesus Christ the only King and Lord by Divine Right, both by royal lineage and by conquest. And which, in the magnificence proper to the Holy Trinity, makes Mary Our Lady and Our Queen: Daughter of the Father, Bride of the Paraclete, and Mother of the Word.
This Regality of Christ and Mary finds its natural place in this time of Lent, because there can be no Glory of the Resurrection without first passing by way of Golgotha. If Our Lord and His Most Holy Mother have chosen to give us this wonderful example, we cannot help but take it as a model and prepare ourselves, with the help of Grace, to accept the Crosses that Providence assigns to us as a pre-condition for our eternal reward. And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
25 March MMXXV
In Annuntiatione Beatæ Mariæ Virginis
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| Debunked Novus Ordo Eucharistic Miracle |
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Posted by: Stone - 03-26-2025, 07:18 AM - Forum: True vs. False Resistance
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A post on another forum shares an article showing how a supposed Novus Ordo Eucharistic Miracle is in fact, a false 'miracle' and has been debunked by the local diocese itself. The poster rightly points out its similarities of circumstances in this 'miracle' in Indiana and the Polish 'Eucharistic Miracles' heavily promoted by the Fake Resistance:
Quote:So here's one that US scientists have debunked, and you'll notice the uncanny similarity betweeh this one and BOTH the alleged Polish ones. In ALL 3 CASES, the "Host" had been dropped onto the floor, and then later placed in a little container of water to dissolve. ...
So the one from the Archdiocese of Indianapolis was actually tested, and they found that the red marks were caused by bacteria. That's actually what the colleagues of that female "scientist" in Poland suggested for those "miracles" as well ... but they were drowned out by those who "want to believe".
Indianapolis Archdiocese: Lab results indicate discolored host was ‘not miraculous’
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Communion hosts Credit LA Faille Shutterstock CNA
CNA Staff | Mar 24, 2025
Following an investigation into a possible Eucharistic miracle at a local parish, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis announced Monday that scientific analysis indicated that the cause was natural, not miraculous.
Last month, a post on X drew attention to what the post called a “‘potential’ Eucharistic miracle” after a parish in southern Indiana discovered a host with red spots on it, which the parish sacristan thought could be blood.
The Archdiocese of Indianapolis said in a statement shared with CNA that laboratory analysis of common bacteria had caused the discoloration.
“A biochemical analysis of a host from St. Anthony Catholic Church in Morris, Indiana, that was displaying red discoloration revealed the presence of a common bacteria found on all humans,” the statement read. “No presence of human blood was discovered.”
The host had fallen and was later discovered with red spots, and biochemical analysis found that the discoloration was due to common bacteria and fungus.
“The host had fallen out of a Mass kit used at the parish, and when it was discovered, red spots were present,” the archdiocese stated. “Following policy established by the Holy See, the host was submitted for professional, biochemical analysis at a local laboratory. The results indicate the presence of fungus and three different species of bacteria, all of which are commonly found on human hands.”
The archdiocese noted that there have been many carefully-reviewed miracles in the history of the Church.
“Throughout the history of the Catholic Church, there have been well-documented miracles and apparitions, and each has been thoroughly and carefully reviewed,” the statement read.
Last year, the Vatican developed its practice regarding potential supernatural events, issuing new guidelines that give the Disastery for the Doctrine of the Faith the final say.
Previous norms established by Pope Paul VI in 1978 left the discernment process for possible miraculous occurrences to local bishops. Under the new guidance, the task remains with the local bishop, but the dicastery must be consulted throughout the process.
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