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Angie_Rivas1
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Posted: Mon May 21st, 2007 04:53 pm |
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I just wanted to share what an awesome experience The Rosary Bowl (Pasadena, CA) experience was  We had over 50,000 people attending and praying the rosary in unison for family unity and world peace. It was said in 55 languages!! We also had different people sharing their testimony including Jim Caviezel. What a sight! I remembered you in my prayers.
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Posted: Mon May 21st, 2007 06:01 pm |
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Angie_Rivas1 wrote: We also had different people sharing their testimony including Jim Caviezel.
It sounds like an awesome experience. I was blessed to hear Jim Caviezel give his testimony with a group of several thousand young people. We also heard from his wife, a former high school girls' sports coach, who now runs a crisis pregnancy center. Both were amazing stories.
Did he tell the story of the rosary and his first lead movie role?
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Posted: Mon May 21st, 2007 07:27 pm |
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For those who have never heard Jim Caviezel speak on his experience filming The Passion of the Christ, here is an article on a talk he gave at Notre Dame in 2005:
'Passion' actor speaks at Grotto
By: Wheaton, Sarah
Posted: 10/14/05
Students filled the Grotto area and spilled into the adjoining sidewalks Thursday to hear Jim Caviezel, star of "The Passion of the Christ," say the rosary and speak about his faith.
Wearing a Notre Dame letterman jacket, Caviezel said he wanted to come to Notre Dame after he heard about Charlie Weis granting Montana Mazurkiewicz's dying wish to call the first play in the Washington game. By using 10-year-old Montana's call, Caviezel said Weis "made an act of faith" - a theme used throughout his speech.
Caviezel said his experience playing Jesus Christ in the movie gave him "a glimpse of what it means to be forsaken, rejected and seen as a thing despised."
He described the pain he felt when he was accidentally whipped twice while filming a scene and when his shoulder was dislocated while carrying the cross. He said he suffered pneumonia, a lung infection, hypothermia and two lightening strikes while filming - all of which forced him "into the arms of my God."
Caviezel emphasized his calling to be an actor, which is something he has felt since his youth.
"God used me as his instrument," he said. "Anything good about the movie came from the fasting, the deep prayer and the daily Mass."
In his fervent speech, Caviezel disparaged the sin and indifference he sees in today's world.
"I came here to Notre Dame to tell you students to have the courage to step into this pagan world and shamelessly express your faith in public," he said. "We are in a more dangerous war now than ever before ... our world is entrenched in sin."
He also exhorted students to make an act of faith and "give Jesus the best seat" in their stadium.
Caviezel spoke about controversial topics including abortion. While he said he wasn't here to antagonize pro-choice Catholics, he asked, "Do you think Our Lady is pro-choice?"
He implored students to look at the people they could potentially convert, and said the "gleaming souls" changed because of the film were worth more than any statuette.
When Caviezel asked if the students were ready to make an act of faith the crowd responded positively.
"I believe this University of Notre Dame is called to a major act of faith right now," he said.
He criticized the expansion of the football stadium that obscured the mural of Jesus painted on the side of the library.
"The image needs to be resurrected so everyone can see it," Caviezel said.
Caviezel told Notre Dame students to make Jesus a major part of their lives.
"You were not sent here simply to study or play ball, but to understand that you are a son or daughter of Notre Dame," he said. "This University is about saving your mortal soul."
He pleaded with students not to "lose sight of Our Lady while cramming for tests, playing ball and drinking Guinness."
As for the game Saturday, he asked students to "keep your hand on your rosary, lift Jesus in your heart, perform your act of faith, pass it right and let it rip."
Junior Jen Richard called the speech "a bizarre mix of football pep rally and God pep rally." She also said she didn't really understand what Caviezel meant when he criticized the expansion of the stadium.
"I feel like reflecting Jesus in our lives is more important than having a reflection of Him on a building," Richard said.
Some of Caviezel's speech shocked listeners. Senior Trevor Turner said most Catholics are not prepared to see someone be that evangelical in a speech.
Justin Brandon, a 2004 Notre Dame alumnus, said he was surprised Caviezel was so lively and emphatic.
"Some of the things he said were shocking, but I agreed with everything he said," Brandon said. "I think it needed to be said."
Students were moved by Caviezel's painful experience while filming.
"He did have some powerful insight from experiencing even just a part of what Jesus must have gone through," Richard said.
Senior Trevor Turner said it "was the most spiritual part of the speech."
After his speech, students crowded around Caviezel hoping for an autograph or a picture. Freshman Jessica Hagemann compared the crowd around Caviezel to the crowds of people who try to get close enough to touch the pope.
"His speech was brilliant," he said. "I just sat there in awe."
Father James McDonald, senior executive assistant and counselor to University President Father John Jenkins, said Caviezel's trip was more of a private visit, although he indicated he would enjoy talking with students about his faith.
McDonald said Caviezel plans to stay for the football game.
Notre Dame's Right to Life club, Student Government, Children of Mary, Knights of Immaculata and the Orestes Brownson Council all sponsored the event.
© Copyright 2007 The Observer
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Posted: Wed May 23rd, 2007 07:49 pm |
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"Did he tell the story of the rosary and his first lead movie role?"
No, but he gave an awesome, inspiring message where he talked about his first confession after a long time with Father Payton (his famous quote is "The family that prays together stays together"). Father Payton died shortly after they had this conversation. He passionately mentioned that he's never been the same man. He encouraged us all to follow God's path regardless of not being recognized for it. We do not need to be famous as long as the Lord knows us by our name  I am so blessed to have lived this wonderful experience.
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Posted: Wed May 23rd, 2007 08:26 pm |
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Angie_Rivas1 wrote: "Did he tell the story of the rosary and his first lead movie role?"
No
He told us that when he went to meet the director for his first big role, he was saying the rosary on the way. He arrived at the director's house and decided to finish the rosary, so he was 10 minutes late for the appointment. He got out of the car, then went back to get the rosary (his wife's grandfather's rosary) and put it in his pocket.
An Hispanic woman answered the door, which he said was very common in Los Angeles as every home has an Hispanic housekeeper. She answered the door and he had an overwhelming urge to give her the rosary. He said he told her, "I don't know why I'm doing this, but this is for you." The woman burst into tears. It turned out that she wasn't Catholic and didn't know how to say a rosary, but a friend had given her one some years earlier and she had lost it. She always took comfort in it, and that morning she had prayed that she have the opportunity to get another "set of beads".
He introduced himself to the woman just as the director came down the stairs, and she turned to him and told him about the rosary. It turned out he was her husband, and she said to him, "This is Jim Caveziel, who will be in your next movie." He said the worst part was going back and telling his wife he had given away her grandfather's rosary.
The director was Terrence Malick, and the movie was The Thin Red Line which was Caviezel's first major role. The movie was nominated for seven academy awards. Caviezel was nominated for his performance by the Chicago Film Critics association.
He also said that he got a call to appear in a surfing movie and he went to meet with the producer. While he was there, Mel Gibson came in to listen to the interview. He said in the middle of the conversation, he (Caviezel) turned to Gibson and said, "There is no surfing movie. You're making a movie about Jesus, and you want me to play the Christ." He said at that time the movie was a big secret and no one knew Gibson was planning it. He said he told Gibson, "you realize my initials are JC and I'm 33 years old..." He said Gibson's answer was, "Man, you're freaking me out!"
During filming The Passion of the Christ, he developed pneumonia, was struck by lightning twice, had severe problems with weather and vertigo, had a separated shoulder, was struck twice during the scourging, and actually got a small taste of the sacrifice Jesus made for him and for all of us.
(The stories above are from memory, so some of the details may not be quite right, but it is as I remember them.)
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