Posted on 11/12/2022 7:44:47 AM PST by lowbridge
The famous Jewish actor and humorist Gad Elmaleh, beloved in France, announced his conversion to the Catholic faith, a process in which he says the Virgin Mary played a crucial role.
Elmaleh, 51, was the partner of Charlotte Casiraghi, the daughter of Princess Caroline of Monaco, with whom they have a son named Rafael.
His conversion to Catholicism is depicted in his new film, “Reste un peu,” (“Stay a while”).
The Jewish actor, who according to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo will take the name of Jean-Marie when he is baptized, has studied theology in Paris, and in 2019 he participated in a musical in London about St. Bernadette Soubirous, the visionary who saw Our Lady of Lourdes.
Elmaleh told the French newspaper Le Figaro that “the Virgin Mary is my most beautiful love” and expressed his surprise that in France the “vast majority of Catholics don’t live their faith openly.”
As a child, he recounted in the interview, he entered a church and saw an image of the Mother of God.
“It wasn’t a vision, just a simple statue, but I was petrified. I began to cry and hid for fear of being discovered by my family, for fear of curses and superstition. I kept it a secret for my entire childhood,” he recalled.
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you might want to switch to decaf
Catholic, have you noticed how the sculpture has Mary much larger than the Jesus in her lap? I’m sure the Pope who commissioned that piece was please to have Mary be larger than Jesus, thus more prominant.
Oh my, the Orgists will not like you exposing the details of their ‘other religion’ which is not Christianity. Hope your flame suit is clean and pressed, Brother. ... See you in the clouds
Uh huh.
What on earth does that statement have to do with anything?
This is what comes from your jumping into the middle of a conversation without following it.
Back up & read the conversation.
Do you know or have you read what GOD said on the day Jesus was baptized by John?
Looking at it, I guess it's cause Mary's clothes bulk out her form, while Jesus (newly crucified) is kinda naked or something.
But if you want to get nitpicky on artwork, note the horns on the head of Moses in Michelangelo's Moses.
It came from a mistranslation of “As Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in his hands, he did not know that the skin of his face had become radiant while he spoke with the Lord.”
The root of the word for radiant is similar to the word for horns in Hebrew.
Source: sophomore art history class in college. Since confirmed by multiple internet searches.
It's not because anyone was trying to turn Moses into the devil.
Or you might've noticed Michelangelo's David is not circumcised.
Late medieval / renaissance sculptures weren't created so 21st Century American Evangelicals could get all carried away patting themselves on the back over noting how the sculptures violate their sensibilities.
Nice try, I have read the thread from 1 to here. But you had to try to denigrate, it is the Catholic way when the heresies and blasphemies are exposed. Is Mary the Mother of Jesus your Mediatrix? There is so much paganism in your religion.
BTW, reaD a few of your essays. You write well. Will read more because they’re that good.
You stated "No one has said His mother was not allowed to touch or mourn, or even following close by when He was taken to the tomb."
Post #206 strongly implies that very thing: “(The last decade on Fridays one recalls Jesus being nailed to the cross, each of the phrases He said on the Cross, His being pierced with a spear, and His body being handed over to His Mother.)” (which I wrote in post #171).
The reply to me within #206 says:
You’ve stumped me, Grey-whiskers! When was Jesus’ body handed over to His mother?
And your post #209 says (verbatim cut-and-paste)
The catholic maridolatry wants it to have been Mary getting the body, but scripture tells us it was Joseph of Arimethea who went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus.
Your confusion is probably (by analogy to Moses' horns) that you are tripping over the common use of the words "handed over to" in the Rosary, to mean "granted full and dispositive custody over". The Rosary nowhere states or implies that Mary went to Pilate or buried Jesus. Nor do Catholics think, teach, or believe this. The Pieta is out of respect for her grief.
The Pieta is one of the most beautiful pieces of sculpture ever created. The human expression on Mary’s face is astonishingly focused. The nail prints however are in the hand not the wrists, so the work was not as accurate as to be factual, but it is a beautiful piece of work.
Do you think it’s important that we be faithful in putting forth the word of God as it is written?
Thanks for posting this right after me!
She could have been!
(See how this works!)
Well, I guess I’d ask him, “Where is the evidence for this assertion?”.
That is the most vacuous evidence for your supposition I’ve ever seen in these threads.
Are you on the Jan 6 Committee?
Your “evidence” proves what the others already posted and yet your mind isn’t changed.
I never have looked that closely, but you are right.
(Do your own Google® search)
Well, you've told us what it doesn't mean - can you now tell us what it does?
He has already commented.
The overwhelming majority of your examples, are quotes of the Old Testament as prophecy.
The quotes at the bottom are mostly people in letters referring to the letters, or other letters.
Neither one undermines the role of the Church in teaching / interpreting Scripture or extracanonical / post canon teaching or revelations (words are tricky here).
And you misapply/overapply quotes in red.
“Everything that was written in the past was meant to teach us” is not the same as “Only things that are written are legitimate.”
And the 1 Corinthians4 quote, is not a general precept, but was specifically written to Corinth about playing “favorite disciple” games: as the very next sentence after the one in red indicates.
103 posted on 11/13/2022 10:35:53 AM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))
In other threads I get differing results when I post all the evidence I could find about relying on the WRITTEN word.
" And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” - Matthew 3:17
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