Showing posts with label james alberione. Show all posts
Showing posts with label james alberione. Show all posts
November 24, 2010
August 15, 2010
BLESSED JAMES ALBERIONE T-SHIRTS!
Standard black T with white letters. $10 each. $5.00 postage. S, M, L, XL Contact: Sr. Helena hburns@paulinemedia.com Put "ALBERIONE" in email subject line.June 12, 2010
February 25, 2009
15 REASONS WHY MOVIES MATTER MORE THAN EVER
1. "Every picture tells a story, donut?" How much more a moving picture.
2. Seeing is believing.
3. We are fast becoming a post-literate civilization.
4. Movies force us to look at other people's lives, stories. (Like we used to have to do scanning newspapers. Now we just cherry-pick our news.)
5. Movies surprise us. Even jaded us.
6. Movies (in theaters) force us to shut up and watch/listen. For 2 hours. Quite a feat. Even with a little texting going on. It's one of the most contemplative experiences we have in our frenetic world.
7. It's very hard to read a book and multi-task. And we are a society of multi-taskers.
8. Movies are the new lingua franca.
9. Movies give us an experience. And postmoderns highly value experience. And movies are one of our few shared experiences in our niche-market world.
10. Brain science is revealing that our brains light up (involuntarily) in imitation mode of whatever stimulates us visually (see the book "Mirroring People").
11. A picture is NOT worth a million words, unless it is somehow self-explanatory. Movies give us pictures AND words.
12. Show, don't tell.
13. Movies touch us on so many levels (head, heart, senses, memory, moral imagination, etc.) all at the same time (words, pictures, movement, emotions, music, sound, life and death events and dilemmas, etc.), and all larger than life (in the theater)!
14. Studies show that as our culture's word-intelligence descreases, its visual-intelligence is increasing.
15. "The movie has a greater effect than the press, because the spectators are more numerous and because it acts upon a greater number of the human faculties."
"Great is the mission of the movies! ...More than anything else, consider the impression that the movie makes on a soul. That impression is much more profound than that made by a bad companion, or reading a bad book.... This mission is great, therefore! If well done, a film impresses itself upon the soul and makes a greater impression on souls than a sermon, than the catechism. This is because the sermon speaks to the sense of hearing, whereas the film speaks a bit to all the senses: sight, hearing, sentiment, imagination, heart. It alsmost takes possession of the individual and dominates him." --Blessed Fr. James Alberione, SSP, filmmaker and Founder of the Pauline Family
2. Seeing is believing.
3. We are fast becoming a post-literate civilization.
4. Movies force us to look at other people's lives, stories. (Like we used to have to do scanning newspapers. Now we just cherry-pick our news.)
5. Movies surprise us. Even jaded us.
6. Movies (in theaters) force us to shut up and watch/listen. For 2 hours. Quite a feat. Even with a little texting going on. It's one of the most contemplative experiences we have in our frenetic world.
7. It's very hard to read a book and multi-task. And we are a society of multi-taskers.
8. Movies are the new lingua franca.
9. Movies give us an experience. And postmoderns highly value experience. And movies are one of our few shared experiences in our niche-market world.
10. Brain science is revealing that our brains light up (involuntarily) in imitation mode of whatever stimulates us visually (see the book "Mirroring People").
11. A picture is NOT worth a million words, unless it is somehow self-explanatory. Movies give us pictures AND words.
12. Show, don't tell.
13. Movies touch us on so many levels (head, heart, senses, memory, moral imagination, etc.) all at the same time (words, pictures, movement, emotions, music, sound, life and death events and dilemmas, etc.), and all larger than life (in the theater)!
14. Studies show that as our culture's word-intelligence descreases, its visual-intelligence is increasing.
15. "The movie has a greater effect than the press, because the spectators are more numerous and because it acts upon a greater number of the human faculties."
"Great is the mission of the movies! ...More than anything else, consider the impression that the movie makes on a soul. That impression is much more profound than that made by a bad companion, or reading a bad book.... This mission is great, therefore! If well done, a film impresses itself upon the soul and makes a greater impression on souls than a sermon, than the catechism. This is because the sermon speaks to the sense of hearing, whereas the film speaks a bit to all the senses: sight, hearing, sentiment, imagination, heart. It alsmost takes possession of the individual and dominates him." --Blessed Fr. James Alberione, SSP, filmmaker and Founder of the Pauline Family
October 28, 2008
SECOND MIRACLE FOR MEDIA APOSTLE BLESSED JAMES ALBERIONE?
Posted to Pauline Charism Live on October 27, 2008
OK--here's this little cutie-patootie's story, third hand, but I'm sure the gist is correct. Little Owen was having seizures IN THE WOMB, and was so bad off when he was born that the hospital sent him home, with hospice, to die. The doctor overseeing his condition was interviewed by some MEDIA OUTLET about dying babies. Since Owen was such a hopeless case, the doctor decided to take the media people to his house to see a "dying baby." Owen's family had been praying to Blessed James Alberione for a miracle. As soon as the doctor saw little Owen that day, he realized THIS BABY IS NOT DYING. Needless to say, THE MEDIA GOT TO COVER A MIRACLE INSTEAD.
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