“Passionate About the Passion”

The first part of Mr. Fournier article is about his mixed feeling after being invited to private, invitation only showing of “The Passion”. “I really did not know what to expect. I was thrilled to have been invited to a private viewing of Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion” but I had also read all the cautious articles and spin.” says Mr. Fournier. He had grown up with the Jewish faith and has a life long, deeply held aversion to anything that might even indirectly encourage any form of anti-Semitic thought, language or actions. Growing up a Catholic and even attending Catholic High School I can personally relate to the feelings of apprehension. I had also read and heard all the positive a

The next section of “Passionate About the Passion” covers the affect the movie had on Mr. Fournier and the others who saw the film. “When the film concluded, this "invitation only" gathering of "movers and shakers" in Washington, D.C. were shaking indeed, but this time from sobbing, I am not sure there was a dry eye in the place. The crowd that had been glad-handing before the film was now eerily silent. No one could speak because words were woefully inadequate. We had experienced a kind of art that is a rarity in life, the kind that makes heaven touch earth.” says Mr. Fournier. When I myself went to see “The Passion” I too was moved to tears at more then one point. Mr. Fournier describes a scene that too was very powerful in my mind. He says “One scene in the film has now been forever etched in my mind. A brutalized, wounded Jesus was soon to fall again under the weight of the cross. His mother had made her way along the Via Della Rosa. As she ran to him, she flashed back to a memory of Jesus as a child, falling in the dirt road out side of their home. Just as she reached to protect him from the fall, she was now reaching to touch his wounded adult face.” I myself have never seen a more powerful and emotional five to ten minutes put on screen. It was awesome and heart breaking to the point of not just tears but out loud crying. This was not the only time that I ope

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