The 49-minute interview on April 2 of Jim Caviezel, who played the role of Jesus Christ in the movie, Passion of the Christ, has now garnered 48,405 views.
The following is the introduction on the YouTube video:
I have never heard Jim’s experience before when he made this movie.
He had a dislocated shoulder, pneumonia, a 14″ laceration, and he was struck by lightning. He took his part in this movie very seriously. He recommends that we take our Christianity seriously too, following Christ no matter what.
See the video by clicking here.
The Evil One did not want this movie made. Glory be to God that it was!
This movie is the best Passion movie ever made in my opinion. Mel Gibson did a great job. I hope that J Caviezel is Catholic. I’m just wondering, I didn’t watch the whole interview, too long for me to watch.
He most definitely is Catholic. I have seen him interviewed on The World Over several times. He loves his Catholic faith.
Thats great to know. Thanks Deliliah : )
I loved how Jim Caviezel gave up his own will for the Will of the Lord. He asked for the Lord to use him and show exactly what it was like for Jesus during His Passion. Jim was willing to lay down his life for the Lord so that others would be converted and be saved after seeing the movie. It takes courage to give up your will–but as Jim said, God sustained him throughout and ministered to him. Satan did not want this movie made and he continues to rage when we talk and share it with others. We must all take up our cross if we want to walk with Jesus and be prepared to suffer. As Jim said–“bring it on!”
To my understanding Jim is truly a Catholic man who will review role and only take the role if it does not cause any scandal to his children, as in “love scenes” with females. He doesn’t just talk, he lives his faith. He is a great actor, but will not compromise his Catholic Faith for his job. Pray for him to be able to continue to prosper for the glory of God.
Satan didn’t want this movie made, just like he didn’t want the Catechism of the Catholic Church published. He wants everyone to continue in the two high sacraments of Satanism – abortion and sodomy – and walk the road to hell.
The essential facts of The Passion’s production are now widely known. Gibson, a leading man in numerous action and dramatic films over the past two decades, belongs to a traditionalist Catholic splinter group, one of the many sects that reject the reforms of the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65. His father, Hutton Gibson, is a Holocaust denier who has railed against the Church hierarchy for decades. Gibson senior describes the Second Vatican Council, which, among other things, officially absolved the Jewish people of responsibility for Christ’s death, as “a Masonic plot backed by the Jews.”
Jim and Kimberly Caviezel are very faithful Catholics. :)
Thank you, that’s great to know. God bless them!
Abeca please watch the whole video of Jim Caviezal explaining what true Faith in Christ is to a large group at a christian ecclesial community. Would that many of us Catholics show such Faith and Love to our separated brethren. Please pray for him as the Devil has tried to attack him many times. Unfortunately Mel Gibson who is a great person has been attack unmercilessly too and has suffered greatly. He deserves our prayers everyday for producing a masterpiece of our Faith. Both these men have brought many converts and reverts to the Faith by their work and witness.
It was reported that St. John Paul 2 at a private showing of The Passion of The Christ said, “It is as It was.”
For those that would like to see the most beautiful love story between Jesus and His Mother here is a short video link of the movie with Ave Maria.
https://youtu.be/2y8ZnrNd7uE
God Bless everyone,
Gerard
Definitely will. God bless you Gerard. I’ll keep those intentions in my prayers too as you ask. God bless you.
juergensen, I think you’re spot on with your comment of 8:53 a.m. today, you’re in reality telling it like it is. And I’ve always felt that Mel G., however he is currently living his life, did exactly what St. Paul said to do in life as a Christian/Catholic: “preach Jesus and Him crucified in season and out.” (paraphrase) But Mel did this as an artist, making what I believe to be one of the greatest testimonies to “preaching Jesus and Him Crucified” ever, but in the form of a movie. Caveziel was magnificent as Our Lord. Someday I believe Gibson will return to the Catholic Church because his accomplishment was truly cosmic, that is, “Passion of the Christ.” Our Lord will somehow look out for him, I don’t think his estrangement from Catholicism will last. VIVA CRISTO REY! markrite
I am so happy that I did not miss Jim Caveziel’s video, and I will watch some of his other videos later. God bless Jim Caveziel and his wife and family, and may He keep them in His arms, and God bless and bring back to him Mel Gibson for making this movie, and may he return to his Father’s House. I am sure the Good Lord is waiting.
Or course, for those in the video to finally get to heaven, they must stay on the road Christ sets, and by His grace obey His Commandments. May they all come to the fullness of the Faith in the Sacraments of the Catholic Church.
I know that Mr. Gibson had the services of a Roman Catholic priest who strictly holds to tradition saying the Tridentine Latin Mass (TLM) on a daily basis as the scenes of the Passion of the Christ were made. Many of Mr. Gibson’s actors in the Passion of the Christ, including Mr. Caveziel worshiped the Blessed Trinity in those holiest of TLMs. Yes like Mr. Gibson, Mr. Caveziel does know the true Roman Catholic faith and strives to practice it as a family man. Pray for him and the rest of the crew as they are likely tempted everyday for nothing would please Satan more than to ruin their reputations by committing awful sins and cause scandal to the Roman Catholic faith. Pray the 3-decades of the rosary daily not just for them, but also for the restoration of the Roman Catholic faith.
The film treats the last 12 hours of Jesus’ life, as recounted in the four New Testament Gospels and other, later embellishments, particularly the version of the Passion set down by the German Augustinian nun Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824), a mystic and anti-Semite. Emmerich’s The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ adds sadistic details to the Gospel accounts and is filled with references to the “Jewish mob,” depicted as “cruel,” “wicked” and “hard-hearted.”
Gibson’s film is disgustingly brutal, perhaps unlike any other widely distributed film before it. For two hours, virtually non-stop, a man is beaten, punched, spit upon, whipped, scourged, tortured and finally nailed to a cross. All the bloody, horrifying details are lovingly filmed. The Passion of the Christ is also profoundly anti-Semitic in its imagery and narrative thrust. The entire frenzied, violent work is oddly unaffecting.
Jason R get a life. The passion of Christ should remind us all why! Sin put Jesus on that cross. Count your sins in as part of that reason!
Well said Charles A to Jason. Most Christians live in la la land and totally ignore how terrible our Lord was treated with guile, hatred, and totally disrespect for even the lowest of human beings His last 48 hours. Mr. Gibson presented these truths from Catherine Emmirich’s book ‘The Dolores Passion of Jesus Christ’ and it is reinforced by the four saintly evangelists. The Roman Catholic Church supported her account of the actual events that transpired through the last centuries. Like many of the protestants who don’t even want to look at a crucifix because it is to gruesome of a reminder and face an empty cross or a risen Christ image, many V2 parishes have and/or are becoming the same way. Protestantism through ecumenism is seeping into the modern V2 Church. Don’t believe me? Go visit a Lutheran service in your neighborhood. It is not that the Lutherans or any other protestant denomination are becoming more like catholics, to say the truth it is the opposite, the spirit of V2 has made the V2 Church more like them, and why shouldn’t it? Afterall several protestant religious leaders advised the V2 Council, and provided many inputs since then at all levels too. Just stating the facts.
“The Dolorous Passion” belongs to a devotional category of pious literature that some Catholics find value in. But since works like “The Dolorous Passion” are considered to be private–not public–revelation, Catholics are not required to believe in them.
Emmerich was “imaginative, but her visions are not what really happened in Bible times,” says Miesel. The imprimatur on “The Dolorous Passion” does not indicate that the Catholic Church accepts her visions as true, according to Mary Francis Lester of TAN Books. The view of the Jewish people reflected in Emmerich’s writings is not in keeping with Vatican II-inspired documents on relations with the Jews or the U.S. Bishops’ Guidelines for Passion Plays Read more at https://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Christianity/2004/02/Another-Scriptwriter-For-Mel-Gibsons-Passion.aspx?p=2#SgCHT6CV4GKoAXiQ.99
Jason, Perhaps Holy Mother the Church doesn’t require us to believe St. Anne Catherine Emmrich’s (ACE) visions of the last 4 days of Our Lord’s life and suffering here on earth nearly 2,000 years ago, but Holy Mother the Church does not deny it either. Who is Miesel whom you talk about? Is your version a post V2 edition? Although the TAN book representative states that the imprimatur in your version may not accept that ACE’s account is true, imprimaturs by their very general nature do indicate that nothing in the written document is untrue, i.e. contrary to Roman Catholic teaching/doctrine. I doubt ACE or her writer’s motive was to smear the Jewish people as though they were prejudice against the Jews. I suspect they were merely trying to describe her visions of the Passion of the Christ simply and accurately detailed, as it was a brutal and ignominious torture, crucifixion, and death of Our Lord. I do believe in ACE’s account; it is a matter of faith! The pagan Romans were known to be vicious. The Sanhedrin hated Jesus. Why could ACE’s description be not true? Would a saint lie? If you think so, for what motive? Even JP2 after viewing the Passion of the Christ said that was the way it happened after he was questioned.
An imprimatur is permission to print.
A nihil obstat means that the book is free from moral or doctrinal error. It is not an endorsement of the book.
In the case of this book, it came to be suspected that her secretary who wrote down her visions fabricated some of what is in the book, which caused the suspension of her cause of beatification. The Holy See has since reinstated it based on her life alone, not her writings.