What scene from the Passion was the one that?

[Psalm45_9]

Toni:

For me when Christ fell and Mary ran to him remembering him fall when he was small. Christ said how he was doing this for all of us.

Ditto, I broke at that scene, and I knew I would. I think I was 8 the last time I cried durring a movie. When my mother saw the Passion of the Christ on DVD, she was hysterical at that scene. I’m very close to my mother and the Blessed Mother.

 

[robertaf]

Good Evening Church

When I first converted as a young woman, the Priests use to really teach, I think.

I remember one very profound sermon (we didn’t call them homilies then, I don’t believe) when the Priest was preaching about sinning. He said whenever we commit mortal sin, it is the same as driving nails into Jesus hands with our own hands.

When they were pounding the nails in, that came back to me in a flash and I just blubbered way up with repentence and guilt. I could almost feel myself driving those nails. And, then Him asking the Father to forgive me. OH MAN! That hit me hard.

But other than that, the most touching scene to me was when he was being called for lunch and splattering his mom with water and then that oh, so boyish and tender kiss. That destroyed me.

I must watch this film again and again.

 

[ATeNumquam]

OhioBob:

One scene that pointed that out to me and that wasn’t mentioned was when Jesus was first arrested and placed in the cell in chains. Mary stops on the road above and places her cheek against the ground. The camera pans down to the cell below where Jesus is alone. He senses his mother above and looks up and you can almost feel him receive strength from her.

Just one great scene from a very moving film.

Blessings.

Yes, all these “Mary” scenes, and this one in particular.
But also where Pilate’s wife hands over the linen cloths.
And I was deeply moved by Simon of Cyrene - how he changed from being unwilling to wanting to support Jesus.
His words “Nearly there” cut me to the heart. And how he looked into Jesus’ eyes once they’d reached Calvary and almost had to be dragged away.
We’d like to have been able to offer that sort of comfort, I guess.
What a moving film it was! Quite a life-changer for me.:crying:

 

[preyoflove]

“What scene touched your heart and made you really realize how much Christ suffered for you as a individual, not as a whole community of people?”

Oh, that’s a tough one. Well, I regret to pick scenes since everything was so good. But then, it will have to be two. First, when he cried “Elahi! Elahi! Lama sabachthani?”

Brothers and sisters, I tell you, this cry from the film haunts me to this very moment. I have never heard such so heartbreaking a cry in my entire life. It was perfect–pure and simple. I felt really ashamed of myself hearing those words because I somehow knew I was the one He meant by those words, the one who left Him. . .most of the time. . .whenever I fall into sin and break away from Him. Quoting the novelist Stephen King’s words, I felt like “someone just broke my heart to pieces and made me it them.” That painful.

Second, that closing shot at the Blessed Virgin Mary. It had the same effect on me as with the cry. It was as if she was saying to me,“This far. This far will He go to bring you back Home, my Child.”

I have to stop typing here. It’s too painful already.

Shalom, amen.

 

[Toni]

robertaf:

Good Evening Church
But other than that, the most touching scene to me was when he was being called for lunch and splattering his mom with water and then that oh, so boyish and tender kiss. That destroyed me.

I must watch this film again and again.

I loved that although a priest said to me that was just hollywood, but I loved that because I can relate to that playfulness from a son, but I do have a hard time watching it again and again, Jesus of Nazareth is the movie I can recite and fall asleep to every night there is so much of Christ’s life in this and although the suffering is there it is not quite so brutal and his teachings are there.

 

[seeker63]

When Mary and Satan eye-balled each other from opposite sides of the street, I was really impressed. I was thinking, “Ah yeah, here we go! She’s gonna smack him down!” I don’t mean to sound irreverent, but seeing those two classic enemies match up was just… (I mean, I knew what would and wouldn’t happen, but it was great knowing Satan was about to get “outgunned.”)

It was like seeing John Wayne or Clint Eastwood standing up against the bad guy at the other end of the street in a Western, you know? The villain really messed up now! It was like Mary was giving Satan a look that said, “Okay, so that’s what you look like. I’ve been expecting you for a long time. I should’ve known you had a hand in this.”

It’s been my experience also that this movie has really driven home the truth of who Mary is to people who didn’t really get it yet.

What would this world be like if somebody could make a religious film as good as this one just—say—every ten years?

 

[ATeNumquam]

seeker63:

It’s been my experience also that this movie has really driven home the truth of who Mary is to people who didn’t really get it yet.

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One of the greatest joys I had, after seeing the Passion, was to come across 2 websites with tributes and testimonies from people (the vast majority non-Catholics) who’d seen the film and been deeply moved by Mary. Thousands of them!! Some even explicitly said they understood the Catholic position on Mary, or said they’d expected to be offended by a Catholic director’s depiction of Mary (and weren’t) or even that they went along looking out for offensive Catholic stuff and didn’t find any. Hey, there were even a few who were thinking of converting to Catholicism!
I read of a pastor who felt “convicted” for neglecting Mary in his preaching, or of putting her aside in his spiritual life, and was going to change that.
I’ve given these websites before, on other Passion threads, but here they are again.
www.seethepassion.com and www.mylifeafter.com

 

[tTt]

Dredgemate:

The one scene that really punched me in the gut, was the scene in which St. Peter realizes his denial of Christ. He denies him three times, then makes eye contact with Christ. The horror and sadness portrayed on his face just totally devastated me. It was like holding a mirror up to my soul, showing every thing I’d done to betray my Lord. That was when the tears began to flow for me.

I agree.