Posted on 08/24/2020 12:57:40 PM PDT by MurphsLaw
New film highlights the enduring message of Our Lady.
Fatima is a beautiful, moving film. Who can resist a story about a Mother come from heaven to help a straying world and tell her prodigal children exactly how and why they need to get back to their Father to bring peace?
While the Blessed Mothers appearance at Fatima and the Miracle of the Sun happened 103 years ago and since then has become known to tens of millions of people, the films appeal stretches across boundaries. Fatima devotees, nominal Catholics, non-Catholics and those who arent religiously oriented will find something to consider in this film.
Fatima is not a remake of the 1952 film The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima.
This Fatima elicits an unmistakable realism, putting viewers into the fields of Portugal and a village where the clock has stopped bringing to life the hamlet of Aljustrel and the Cova da Iria, where Servant of God Lucia and the Santos family, and Sts. Jacinto and Francisco and the Marto family, lived in 1917.
What happened in Fatima more than a century ago is presented in flashbacks recalled by an elderly Sister Lucia, now a Carmelite nun, in the movie. The character of Professor Nichols, played by Harvey Keitel, is a well-known nonbeliever in supernatural events who visits the Fatima seer at her monastery in Coimbra. Nichols is writing a book on such phenomena and wants to hear firsthand what she experienced because, as he admits, there are events surrounding Fatima that are unexplainable.
Both respect each other, though their reactions to apparitions differ: Nichols admits something happened at Fatima while Lucia knows it did. The convent grill that separates them physically also symbolically separates their different ideas.
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Because you cannot have a son without a mother. Mary is the fulfillment of God’s plan for a Holy Family from which our Saviour is born. Mary brings full circle to the creation story, redeeming eve.
Song of Bernadette is the beautiful movie that tells this story. Worth finding and watching if you’ve never seen.
> She was not sinless, all but Jesus the Christ committed sin and needed to be saved.
That is true. even Mary needed a savior, and she cannot save anyone. The “Ascension of Mary” was made up rather recently because had Mary not sinned she’d still be alive today.
However Mary wasn’t without sin and she did die, thus the ascension was concocted to carry on the legend.
Bernadette is from Lourdes, France and not from Fatima, Portugal. Prayer of the Rosary was emphasized in Fatima and ever after that apparition.
One review noted this, and said it’s different from the vision of her high in a tree. Director making Mary “more approachable”... yes that’s a small flaw IMO.
Of course, I know that, I was referring to the Immaculate Conception. Mary appeared to Bernadette saying, “I am the Immaculate Conception.”
a lot of people
If her divine Son can stand on the ground,so can she. In Fatima she hovered over a pine brush.
go ahead. I will be blessed.
No I don’t believe in the Fatima events. It is as real as Popes who are entombed and have not aged since death.
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