Posted by Sigismund on January 16, 2010, at 1:59:49
In reply to Re: I saw two recent movies + enjoyed them! » Sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on January 15, 2010, at 23:34:45
>Ah, to be mindlessly happy
Nice idea, when did you have it?
I haven't seen either of 28 Days later nor 28 Weeks Later.
Being an old fashioned type (prone to nostalgia) I like 70s European movies with prayers like this and shots of a room with nothing happening that last 10 minutes (you can go to sleep!)
> from Cries and Whispers
Agnes has died young after a painful illness, and this prayer is said over her body......
"God, our Father, in His infinite wisdom and mercy has decided to call you home in the flower of your youth. You submitted to it patiently and uncomplainingly in the certain knowledge your sins would be forgiven through the death on the cross of your Lord, Jesus Christ. May your Father in Heaven have mercy on your soul when you step into his presence. May he let his angels disrobe you of the memory of your earthly pain."
(The chaplain now addresses Agnes's spirit.)
"If it is so that you have gathered our suffering in your poor body, if it is so that you have borne it with you through death, if it is so that you meet God over there in the other land, if it is so that He turns His face toward you, if it is so that you can speak the language this God understands, if it is so that you can speak to this God. If it is so, pray for us. Agnes, my dear child, listen to what I am now telling you. Pray for us who are left here on this dark and dirty earth under an empty and cruel Heaven. Lay your burden of suffering at God's feet, and ask Him to pardon us. Ask Him to free us at last from our anxiety, our weariness and our deep doubt. Ask Him for a meaning to our lives. Agnes, you who have suffered so uncomplainingly and so long, you must be worthy to plead our cause."
I wonder if he laughed himself sick over that?
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