Movies to buy for the holidays or as Christmas stocking stuffers

Heres a few I chose and some I would like to learn more about

1. The Passion of Christ

2. St. Padre Pio: Miracle Man

3. Let there be dragons, I have never seen this movie but have heard good things.

4. For Greater Glory, I havent seen this as well and would be interested what you all think of it.

5. The Nativity scene. is always a good choice thank you for posting it Padraig

 

I loved , 'The Greater Glory'.

If yuo type St joseph of Cupertino into Utube you can find a very old, fun full length movie about him which is great and quite touching. Its funny seeing him flying about and the friars staring at him with their mouths open.

It would do no harm if God would grant us someone like that these days to stir up faith. I was p[raying and thinking about him and wondering why God had him flying. I suspect it was because he was just so very, very humble and God wanted to ,'finger' him. The evidence he did fly is overwhelming,

 

I'm watching it right now! Wow--a young Ricardo!

 

I wish I had seen 'THERE BE DRAGONS' before today! uggg. I would have bought it for my son. No money now. I did buy 'For greater Glory' for our family and for 3 of our older kids.

 

Plot Summary forThe Keys of the Kingdom (1944) More at IMDbPro »

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A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed. Over the span of many years he gains acceptance and a growing congregation among the Chinese, through his quiet determination, understanding and patience. Written by E.W. DesMarais <Jlongst@aol.com>
In 1938, Father Francis Chisholm is an elderly priest whose sermons don't particularly conform to his Bishop's expectation and is asked to retire. The Monsignor who has delivered the message comes across Father Francis' journals which tell his life story. He is orphaned when his parents are swept down down river during a violent school and taken in by his Aunt Polly. After the death of his childhood sweetheart, he enters the priesthood and is sent by his mentor, Bishop Hamish MacNabb, as a missionary to China. He arrives to find that his church has burnt to the ground and that he has few adherents other than rice Christians, a practice he puts to an immediate end. Establishing himself is a challenge but he is called to care for the son of the local Mandarin. As a thank you, the Mandarin gives him a piece of land and pays all of the expenses to build a new compound with not only a church but a schoolhouse and a dispensary. The arrival of three nuns should have lightened his load but his inability to befriend the haughty Mother Superior weighs greatly on his conscience. They survive a war between Imperial and Nationalist troops but a close friend is killed. He returns to Scotland, an old man whose view of the world, shaped by his life's experience impresses the visiting Monsignor who has spent the night reading his journals.

 

Plot Summary forThe Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958) More at IMDbPro »

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All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote village. There she eventually lives a full and happy life: running the inn, acting as "foot inspector", advising the local Mandarin and even winning the heart of mixed race Captain Lin Nan. But Gladys discovers her real destiny when the country is invaded by Japan and the Chinese children need her to save their lives. Based on a true story. Written by A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>
In the 30's, the working-class Englishwoman Gladys Aylward leaves Liverpool and arrives in London, trying to join the China Missionary Society expecting to be sent to China. However, having only ordinary schooling, her request is turned down due to her lack of qualification to the position. Gladys works hard as a maid and uses all her savings and salaries to buy a train ticket to Tientsin. Then she travels by mule to the remote province of Wangcheng, where she works with the Englishwoman Jeannie Lawson and the Chinese cook Yang in the Inn of the Sixth Happiness. When Ms. Lawson has an accident and dies, Gladys has no money to run the establishment and accepts the position of "foot inspector" offered by the Mandarin Hsien Chang. She is assigned to visit the countryside to promote and enforce the government's law against foot binding Chinese girls. She is successful, changes her nationality to Chinese and her name to Jen-ai (meaning "the one who loves people"), surprising the skeptical bi-racial Captain Lin Nan. When Wangcheng is invaded by the Japanese, Jen-ai travels through the mountains with one hundred children to save them from death. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
It's pre-WWII Britain. Gladys Aylward, who has worked as a domestic for the better part of her adult life, knows that she belongs in China, despite not knowing the language or anything of life there. She wants to work as a missionary, but is denied because of her inexperience. She even plans to save enough money on her own to go there. Instead, her current employer, Sir Francis Jamison, connects her with a friend of his, the elderly Mrs. Jeannie Lawson, a missionary in China who could use some help. When Gladys arrives in the remote northern Chinese town of Yang Cheng where Mrs. Lawson is currently residing, Mrs. Lawson tells her of her plan: to open an inn, which she ultimately calls the Inn of the Sixth Happiness, which will provide refuge for those traveling by mule train. In this way, they can spread the word of the Lord more effectively. Soon after they open the inn, Mrs. Lawson dies in an accident. With no money, no support to remain in China and still not enough language skills to make it on her own, Gladys has to find a way to stay. That help comes in the form of the mandarin of Yang Cheng, who employs her initially as the foot inspector, the job which entails monitoring the new government rule that young women and female children are not to have their feet bound (the mandarin failing to tell her the dangers of the job in bucking Chinese historical practice). In her travels, Gladys becomes renowned in the area as a humanitarian and is given the name "the one who loves". Despite potential harm to herself and fear for her personal safety, Gladys often places herself in situations where she feels she can provide some good, such as in negotiating with incarcerated men who have started a prison riot, and with marauding bandits. Through it all, she begins a friendship and ultimate romance with Colonel Lin Nan, a half Chinese/half Caucasian Chinese military officer who chose to live in China since he knew he would always be considered second class in the western world. Their friendship and romance is despite their differences, especially his military role versus her pacifist attitude. Those differences are tested with his message to the people of the probable Japanese invasion and what ultimately would become the Sino-Japanese War, when her mission turns to save the masses of orphaned children. Written by Huggo

 

SAW THE HOBBIT WITH THE FAMILY ON FRIDAY!!! IT WAS WONDERFUL! ORGS and all!

 

We just might have to make it MOVIE DAY tomorrow for homeschooling! I LOVE HOMESCHOOLING!!
ESPECIALLY IF WE STAY IN OUR JAMMIES!

 

You changed your avatar Marti! <ust be something in the air!! I will need sunglasses to look at it.

 

“Life of Pi” begins with the main character, Pi Patel, and his family in Pondicherry, India. Pi’s family owns a zoo, but due to various circumstances, they are forced to give up their life in Pondicherry and sail for Canada, bringing along with them some of the more valuable animals to sell later on. After a horrifying shipwreck, Pi, the lone human survivor, finds himself sharing a lifeboat with a bengal tiger—humorously named Richard Parker and brought to terrifying life by state-of-the-art visual effects—somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Much of the movie concerns how Pi and Richard Parker sort of learn to live with each other after a series of power plays during which Pi nearly loses his life. The simplicity of Pi’s predicament tests the strength of the human spirit in the face of its own existential insignificance, as seen through the movie’s dazzling images.
In one scene, the Pacific Ocean glows a translucent neon blue, turning the grandeur of the sea into a window that offers an unobstructed view of strange and beautiful creatures at which to gaze in awe. The scene itself starts as nothing more than visual splendor, but it very quickly borders on the transcendent when a gigantic whale emerges from the ocean’s depths into a dive so indifferent to its surroundings that the end result is a haunting sequence representative of nature’s attitude toward humankind. The movie works best during these types of sequences, and not during its overt attempt to arbitrarily attach meaning to itself by way of a narrative framing device through which adult Pi tells his story to a struggling writer.

 

Its called 'Pillar of Intention'---love it! Kinda like the fire of the Holy Spirit that Moses had following him.

 

It GLOWS

 

Just heard about this film, this morning. Maybe I was meant to pass this on:

http://medjfilms.com/?page_id=36

 

Giuseppe Moscati has anyone seen this movie?

 

I just heard about this last weekend at a dinner. We are going to use it as a fund raiser for the youth to go to Rio.
I watched a movie on Mother Teresa: Mother Teresa, in the Name of God's Poor. It was really good.
I'm always on the look out for good faith-filled movies.

I just took a peek at Giuseppe Moscati, I put it on my list of things to see. Thanks.