You can search all day and all night but you will not find such silliness in the Bible

You can search all day and all night but you will not find such silliness in the Bible

Gibson’s movie begins in the garden of Gethsemane, with the disciples sleeping as Jesus prays for guidance and stomps on a snake that tempts him to avoid his destiny. There are other horrors: a screeching creature that resembles a berserk monkey , demonic children who might have wandered in from «The Exorcist,» a bird that plucks out the eyes of crucified men , the gargoyle-like members of King Herod’s court,. . . (Hartl, John. Gibson’s ‘Passion’ is bloody empty. MSNBC, )

Emmerich began having supernatural visions very early in her life

A few years ago, as Mel Gibson was rediscovering and renewing his Catholic faith, Mel Gibson purchased a library of hundreds of books from a closed nunnery. Mel claims as he was reaching for a book on the library shelf a supernatural intervention caused another book to «miraculously» drop into his hands. And that «miracle» book, not the Bible, not the Gospels, is the inspiration of The Passion . The book was The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to the Meditations of Anne Catherine Emmerich. Gibson claims like «magic» this book opened up a new world. «‘ Amazing images ,’ he said. ‘She supplied me with stuff I never would have thought of».

According to her biographers, the last 12 years of Anne’s life she ate no food except the bread and wine of the Holy Eucharist

Anne was born on the feast of the Virgin Mary’s own nativity: e a nun of the Augustinian Order at Dulmen.

By the age of four she prayed for three hours daily while being physically visited by her guardian angel. Continuar leyendo «You can search all day and all night but you will not find such silliness in the Bible»