The Holy Mother of God is subject again to the blasphemies of the play The Testament of Mary.
This play is scheduled to be shown at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel by the Sea, California, with blasphemies against Mary Most Holy, such as:
- Possibly stripping most pure Mary completely naked on stage, as was done in NYC on Broadway in 2014.
- Denying Jesus to be the Son of God.
- Saying “I am not one of his followers.”
- Calling the apostles “a group of misfits.” Not one of them “normal.”
- Fleeing the Crucifixion, saying: “It was my own safety I thought of; it was to protect myself.”
Full story at americaneedsfatima.org.
Information from Carl Cherry Center for the Arts:
The Testament of Mary is a ninety-minute, one-woman play depicting the mother of Jesus at the end of her life. It describes the story leading up to her son’s crucifixion from Mary’s own perspective, not as the religious icon she came to be, but rather as a woman, a wife, a mother, and a human being.
The play opens Friday, August 12th through Sunday, September 11th, 2022. Friday and Saturday performances begin at 7:30pm, Sunday matinees at 3:00pm. Masks required inside the theater. Tickets are $23 general admission, available for purchase online with no booking fee at eventbrite.com or by calling (831) 233-1941. $20 for military (available at the door only).
Meet the Cast and Crew:
Jane Press (Actor/Producer/Production Designer) has been performing on stage since the Kennedy administration, She is the Founder / Artistic Director of PRESS THE BUTTON PRODUCTIONS, whose mission it is to give voice—on stage and off—to women over the age of fifty, in reclamation of our matriarchal heritage.
Maryann Schaupp Rousseau\ (director) is a director; actor; choreographer and theatre arts educator, working in these capacities on the Monterey Peninsula from 1989 until the present. She served as Dean Emeritus for the Pacific Repertory Theatre (in Carmel) School of Dramatic Arts for eleven years.
Libs would never do anything remotely disrespectful of Islam. They know Christians won’t do anything about it. And, more importantly, they know Christians won’t cut off their heads like Muslims do for similar things.
And, consider how misogynistic Islam is.
Is there a story here? The satanic realm using those in its grasp in a wheezing, desperate flail at she who would crush the head of the serpent comes as no surprise and the events we know about are probably dwarfed by the ones we don’t. They hate the Blessed Mother and attempts like this to injure her would be outrageous if it weren’t for the fact they were so pathetically pitiful and spittle flecked. Sorry, I’m not concerned. I do feel sorry for the souls that Satan is humiliating though (and the Blessed Mother is not one of them).
Being put on by a Boomes. No wonder, and who cares?
A quick look at some online pics of the “actress” and director show them pretty well preserved if they are boomers (which I assume you meant). I’m a late boomer and dont find any of this either interesting or acceptable. Your comment is just another way to slice and dice people in to neat Blame Categories. Most of us Boomers are the ones who’ve raised families, worked hard for 40+ years, payed taxes and upheld the parish.
Catholics should hold a vigil of prayer to protest this sacrilegious play. The local Bishop should lead the prayer vigil and protest, and tell Catholics to boycott the play. It should be shut down. In modern “lingo,” this is “hate speech,” religious discrimination, and should be legally challenged. It is Satanic.
Rosaries don’t do anything
yeah… about that… Our Lady, St Dominic and John of Austria would disagree. Mebbe even those abortion nuts too?
I signed the America Needs Fatima petition, protesting this blasphemous play.
I’m pretty positive that will do nothing, I suggest a more direct approach that won’t be printed here
I worry about your soul.
uncalculaby far worse than destroying statues.September 12th is the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary. St Aphonsus Ligouri said that the Most Holy Name of Mary is holiest after the Most Holy Name of Jesus. in 1274 the Council of Lyons ordered reparations to be made for insults to the Holy Name of Jesus by the Albigensians. Ironically, the Cherry theater is on the corner of Guadalupe Street.The local parish bulletin says mentions that the office and the rectory are closed until further notice.
When making sacrifices, say “O my Jesus, it is for Your love, for the conversion of sinners and in reparation for sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.”
This was a prayer given to the 3 children of Fatima by our Lady.
I only know what this article says about the play and I think y’all are being snowflakes. The play seems to portray a kind of parallel universe in which Mary isn’t the extraordinary women we know her to be. It’s art, not theology.
Would a Muslim buy that explanation about something similar disrespecting Mohommed?
I’m not sure what that has to do with anything. We aren’t Muslims and we shouldn’t want to act like them
At least they defend their Faith, the modern Catholic sings “all will be well” while the Church implodes and its enemies close in on her ..
I agree, I was against the smearing of the name of Fatima, the daughter of Mohammed, one time because they had no evidence that what they said about her was true. We are not to bear false witness against even those guilty of heresy, etc.
When art offends, you say something.
They cancel people for a joke these days.
there will be more of this bullstuff
as we approach the end
i know who wins
We should make prayers of reparation and we should take the opportunity to teach the truth about Mary.
Mary was conceived, lived and died without sin.
Jesus is the Son of God.
Mary is the perfect worshipper of God and the perfect follower of God saying “Do whatever He tells you.” John 3:5 and “I am the handmaiden of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.” It is in the Bible in Luke Chapters 1:38 .
The apostles were fishermen, a tax collector, a Zealot party member and other “uneducated, ordinary men” Acts 4:13
Mary stood at the foot of the Cross when Jesus was crucified. John 19:25
As if one cannot truly be a woman and a holy Saint at the same time?
(I know, that’s redundant.)
What an insult to all women Saints and all women.
And, maybe to all human persons. We were not created to or for sin.
The Mother of God was the first disciple and the first one filled with the Holy Spirit. And, she is the Queen of the Apostles, with whom she had life-long relationships, until her Assumption.
And it’s an insult to dogs, who are man’s and women’s best friend.
Carmel by the Sea has now fully lost it’s appreciation for the Arts. Very sad.
Humm looks like an interesting play. What the buzz tell me what’s happening…. And a woman fearing for her life, and running away from a male mob out to kill Jesus’ followers—- yeah, I know, women protecting themselves how blasphemous can you get— so go attack DOUBTING Thomas and leave women alone if you must. Or the cowardly apostles hiding in the upper room, yup but pick on a woman for being fearful. Clearly there is something wrong with this attack on a one woman play daring to comment of Catholic male doctrine.
After seeing parts of it of YouTube (I could not watch the whole thing) I assumed some middle finger by some petulant Catholic School resenting jerk.
But after reading your comment, I looked up the Wikipedia page and have decided that really the people while sincere are just plain ignorant.
They do not understand Mary.
This is a teachable moment. And part of what should be taught is that you should educate yourself before you write a play about a person, a religion, a culture.
I hope somebody rather than name-calling and labeling will write up the truth about Mary and hand it out at the play.
America Needs Fatima (TFP) who is protesting it takes in over $14 million a year. I would like to see them do that.
Oh look the clipped hair is upset that she can’t play priest and preach her man hatred…
I am no longer surprised or outraged by anything that comes out of the Left Coast. It is a totally depraved and corrupt entity with a few remaining good people in it much like a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.
Is it better or worse than Beach Blanket Babylon?
Imagine the impact of a movie about the real Mary.
The Bible says little but it is of great importance.
A movie about a woman of virtue…a sinless woman.
We need this.
5 sins against the Immaculate Heart: blasphemies against her Immaculate Conception, against her perpetual virginity, against the divine and spiritual maternity of Mary, blasphemies involving the rejection and dishonoring of her images, and the neglect of implanting in the hearts of children a knowledge and love of this Immaculate Mother.
The devotion of the 5 First Saturdays in reparation was taught to Sister Lucia.
I don’t want to start
Any blasphemous rumors
But I think that God’s
Got a sick sense of humor
And when I die
I expect to find Him laughing
You should look up in the Bible what makes God laugh.
California, the sewer pipe on the Pacific.
There are lots of books on Mary, some by non-Catholics, even Muslims. This Catholic article lists some:
https://aleteia.org/2018/04/21/no-matter-where-youre-at-with-mary-one-of-these-8-books-will-be-great-may-reading/
W. Smith, there is some of this going on all over this country and has been since the country started. It is just more hidden. After all, some of our U.S. presidents allowed seances in the White House and many had mistresses. Salem, Mass. is not notorious for no reason. The Puritans might have gone overboard, but where there is smoke, there is fire. Salem is now fully into witchcraft for the most part.