Vatican
City, 18 May 2012
(VIS) - This afternoon in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic
Palace, the Holy Father attended a viewing of "Mary of
Nazareth", a coproduction of RaiFiction, Lux Vide, BetaFilm,
Tellux, Bayerischer Rundfunk, and Telecinco Cinema directed by
Giacomo Campiotti.
At
the end of the screening the Pope addressed a few words on the film
that focuses on three female protagonists: Herodias, Mary Magdalene,
and Mary of Nazareth, whose lives cross but who choose different
paths.
"Herodias",
Benedict XVI said, "remains locked within herself and her world.
She is unable to raise her gaze to read the signs from God and she is
not freed from evil. Mary Magdalene's experience is more complicated.
She is attracted by the appeal of an easy life rooted in material
things and uses various means for getting her own way up until the
dramatic moment when she is judged and is faced with her own life.
Her encounter with Jesus opens her heart and changes her existence.
But the centre is Mary of Nazareth who possesses the wealth of a life
that has been a "Here I am" for God. She is a mother who
would have always wanted to keep her son at her side, but she knows
that He is God. Her faith and her love are so great that she can
accept Him leaving to accomplish His mission. Her life is a constant
"Here I am", said to God from the Annunciation until the
Cross".
"Three
experiences", the Pope concluded, "a paradigm of how one
can build their life around selfishness, being locked within oneself
and material things, being guided by evil, or rather upon the
presence of a God who came and stays with us, who awaits us with
kindness if we make a mistake and asks that we follow Him, that we
trust in Him. Mary of Nazareth is the woman of a full and total "Here
I am" to the divine will. In her "Yes", repeated even
when faced with the sorrow of the loss of her child, we find complete
and profound beatitude".
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