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 Mother’s 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 film’s appeal stretches across boundaries. Fatima devotees, nominal Catholics, non-Catholics and those who aren’t 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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i thought it was about Ahab the Arab, sheikh of the burning sands...
What are the reviews? I was taken back by the Blessed Mother standing on the ground.
It’s a good looking production with quality actors. I’m hopeful. The 1952 movie with Gilbert Roland is good, too.
I believe the brother died in the pandemic of 1918?
Bookmark.
This does promising but I’m always skeptical when Hollywood gets its hands on the Catholic Faith.
This does *sound* promising....
Not Catholic, but I loved to listen to Father Martin when he was on Coast to Coast with Art Bell.
I enjoyed Martin also. He is as close as I want to get to that Church or its structure though.
We are NOT the “prodigal children” of Mary. Sorry, she was a sinful human just like us all. Her Son was the Son of God, we are the “prodigals” spoken of, and God is our Father .
Do you not believe she appeared at Fatima ??
Gilbert Roland did a fine job as Hugo, but his character was a Hollywood construct; Hugo da Silva was completely fictitious.
The result of the Fatima apparition. Y’all Catholics, pay attention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhQGb8Fcrrk
Both younger kids, Francisco and Jacinta, of Flu. They were only recently beatified by the Church.
I have a message for those looking for signs. DONT.
A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Jesus then left them and went away.
Matthew 16:4
Do you not believe in the Immaculate Conception?
+1. If people want to follow demonic apparitions and make movies about them that is their business
And here we go. We get it-the usual Protestant canards about Mary.
Too bad y’all can’t see that she is always pointing towards Jesus, or that miracles still happen.
Yep the Rosary. Very beautiful.
It appears to not only lead men towards holiness but is a thorn to all those that would insult and revile Jesus’s mother.
It should be an interesting movie for these times.
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