Matthew at Shrine of the Holy Whapping blogs about Jim Caviezel’s somewhat-impromptu speaking engagement at the University of Notre Dame. Not your average celebrity-blogging, it’s a surprisingly moving post. Click here and scroll down to the post entitled "Watch This Space."
Caviezel, you may remember, played Christ in Gibson’s Passion:
He dislocated his shoulder, he accidentally tasted two lashes of the whip that left foot-long scars on his back and knocked him to the ground, he got sick, he hung up there, blue with cold, half-naked in the cold November air for weeks as they filmed and re-filmed Christ giving up His spirit to the Father. (I doubt he could have done it if he hadn’t gone to Communion every day–he did this for God, not his career). It’s terrifying enough to think of an ordinary man in this comfy day and age being whipped, even accidentally, or having to feign a crucifixion. It’s terrifying, and frightening. Now multiply that by five thousand percent–and add real nails.
I sometimes think the reason Christ suffered in this world in 33 AD was it was only then that human ingenuity could devise a torture so awful as to make the depth of His Redemption evident.
Great post from one of my favorite, usually funny, Catholic blogs.
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