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There Be Dragons

If you had not had a chance to see the movie about St. Josemaria Escraiva, There be Dragons, its still playing in some theaters in the area. A great movie about the life of a saint - watch the trailer below.

A New Exorcist Movie

A new movie about an exorcist is set to be released in major movie theaters on January 28 titled The Rite. The movie starts none other than Anthony Hopkins. The movie is loosely based on a book by the same title authored by Matt Baglio about a California priest, Fr. Gary Thomas, who goes to Rome to be trained as an exorcist. Fr. Thomas was called upon to help with certain scenes in the movie and he even said the movie was very good and that it was a movie about faith! Read more of this thoughts about the movie from Catholic News Agency. As always with Hollywood productions there are some elements in movies based on true events that are exaggerated for effect - read more on that from Catholic News Service. You can see a trailer below.

 

"The Calling" Documentary

 
A moving documentary was recently produced titled "The Calling." It shows the beauty of God's call to the priesthood, religious life, marriage and parenthood by examining the lives of individuals in those states of life. Purchase the video here or read a review here.

Women Religious

Take a look at this short video below about Women Religious and see the works they do! Got it from ForYourVocation. 

Priests in Movies

 
Life Teen did a great podcast recently on the way priests are portrayed in movies, both more recent and older movies. They spend some time talking about great Catholic movies like The Mission and also some other movies that have both good and bad elements for the Catholic priesthood like Keeping the Faith. Listen here.

The Calling Video

Take a look at this great video below - takes you on a journey through the lives of 3 men and how they heard the priestly call. They each had very different lives, one an avid outdoorsman, another a businessman, and a final baseball player and fan. Enjoy!

Year for Priests Closes

As the Year for Priests closes Headline Bistro ran a story by Pia de Solenni to reflect on this year. Pia spoke about the difficulties the priesthood has gone through this past year and also how priests have been portrayed in past from a book about Edmund Campion to movies like The Mission - take a look at the article.

On the Vatican's website you can read the homilies, talks, see pics and a whole bunch of other things from this Year for Priests - take a look here.

Tomorrow, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, will mark the official close to the Year for Priests and when St. Jean Vianney will be declared patron saint of all priests. A truly historical and important moment in the life of the Church and in the life of all priests - read more about this from Catholic News Agency. At this closing Mass the Pope will address all priests throughout the world - stay tuned it should be encouraging and convicting!

EWTN will be broadcasting some of these events - take a look at their webpage.

Blessed Duns Scotus

A new movie is being made about Duns Scotus whom Pope John Paul II beatified - take a look at some video footage about the movie below:

Ordination

This is the time of year when many Dioceses and Religious Orders ordain men to the transitional Diaconate and Priesthood - in fact Trenton Diocese is getting ready to ordain our new transitional Deacons and our new Priests! To prepare for these ordinations, take a look at a short video below about Priestly ordinations for the Dominican Order!

Questions about Priesthood

People in the world today have lots of questions about the priesthood, like why is the priesthood reserved for men alone, why don't priests get married, to mention a few - listen as Fr. Dan Beeman from the Diocese of Richmond gives some easy to understand responses to questions lots of people have about the priesthood. Take a look below.

Objections To Holy Orders [Life Teen] from Life Teen on Vimeo.