'Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer' premiering


(ARCHONS) - A major motion-picture about divine wisdom, timeless insight, silence and prayer, entitled, “Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer” will premiere for three-months on Comcast and Verizon Fios Video-On-Demand, beginning on December 15, 2010.

His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew offers a foreword and introduction to this story as it travels to the far reaches of the east, discovering the Jesus Prayer firsthand with Emmy award winning theologian and author, Dr. Norris J. Chumley, and renowned historian and priest, Very Rev. Dr. John A. McGuckin. They take a modern exodus to the ancient lands where Christianity and the Church began, witnessing the Jesus Prayer directly in monasteries and chapels, many places that are off-limits to the outside world.

Comments

  1. Matthew MDecember 17, 2010 at 8:23 PM

    Yes, well waiting on the DVD.
    I thought the home of Christianity was Bethlehem, Nazareth and Jerusalem in Judea and the Galilee not Egypt.
    Interesting not a single segment is from these sites in modern israel. Typical anti-Jewish, anti-Israel anti-semiticism from the Orthodox Church. Worse than even from the Roman Catholic Church.
    I'll still get the DVD and glean from it what I can that is of value.

    ReplyDelete
  2. RobertDecember 17, 2010 at 11:11 PM

    Matthew, how many Roman Catholic documentaries do you know of that highlight Mount Athos, and the Coptic Orthodox Monastaries. Not many or any that I know of. The Orthodox are not anti-Jewish as you presume. How many Western Christians are aware of these Christian holy places from the East. This is a great movie that will introduce many western Christians to the beauty of Eastern Christianity. Enough has been documented on the holy places that you have mentioned.

    ReplyDelete
  3. margaretDecember 18, 2010 at 5:49 AM

    I can get a little sensitive about anti-Israelism too but I think I will buy this DVD because, after all, we all know about Galilee, Bethlehem, etc, but for myself I know much less about Orthodox Egypt. It's good to remember the verse so beloved of the Copts, "Out of Egypt I will call my Son," and I find it intriguing that Egypt is both a byword for sin *and* the place to which the Holy Family went as refugees.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Matthew MDecember 18, 2010 at 3:31 PM

    I suppose you are correct but I just don't like anti-Jewish provocations under any circumstances. I did say I'd buy it anyway.
    Margaret, how is Miss Tinley these days?

    ReplyDelete
  5. UnknownApril 26, 2011 at 8:15 AM

    @Curmudgeon I agree that the physical home of Christianity is the places you mentioned but this movie isn't about the home of Christianity, it is about the Jesus Prayer which was created or rather popularized in Egypt in the 5th century. How that leads to the conclusion that the Orthodox Church is anti-Jewish, anti-Israel and anti-semitisism is beyond my understanding. I'm sure there are some reasons behind that statement beyond this film but I feel it is inappropriate to voice that opinion here. For instance why would a movie about The Nicene Creed feature scenes from anywhere but Turkey? Christianity didn't develop in a vacuum and nor will it continue to.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

EP calls different Paschal dates a "scandal"

( Orthodox Times ) - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew extended in his homily his heartfelt wishes to all the non-Orthodox Christians who celebrated the Holy Easter on Sunday, March 31, after presiding over the Sunday Divine Liturgy at the Church of Saint Theodore of the Community of Vlanga. “On this day, the timeless message of the Resurrection resonates more profoundly than ever, as our non-Orthodox Christian brethren and sisters commemorate the resurrection of our Lord from the dead, celebrating Holy Easter. We have already sent our representatives to all the Christian Communities of the confessions here, to extend our heartfelt wishes of the Holy Great Church of Christ and our Patriarchal congratulations. But also from this position we extend a heartfelt greeting of love to all Christians around the world who celebrate Holy Easter today. We beseech the Lord of Glory that the forthcoming Easter celebration next year will not merely be a fortuitous occurrence, but rather the beginning...
Read more

Coptic Church SUSPENDS dialogue with Catholic Church

Image
( OCP ) - Cairo – Egypt: The plenary session of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church was held on March 07.2024, at the Logos Center at the Papal Residence in the Monastery of Saint Anba Bishoy in Wadi Natroun, headed by His Holiness Pope Tawadros II, and attended by 110 of its 133 members. His Holiness the Pope delivered a speech at the opening of the session, in which he spoke about the importance of fruit in the life and service of the shepherd through “the parable of the unfruitful fig tree” (Luke 13:6-9). The main committees of the Holy Synod held their annual meetings starting last Monday and for three days, at the papal headquarters in St. Mark’s Cathedral in Abbasiya, to discuss the reports submitted to them by their subcommittees.  It issued its recommendations, which were presented to the members of the Academy in today’s plenary session for approval. The Church announced its opinion on the issue of “homosexuality” through a statement issued by the Holy Synod (to b...
Read more

"Those people in the back" - a quandary

Image
"I am the door. By me if any man enter in he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture." - John 10:9 At every parish where I have had the pleasure of attending services, there is always a small group of people who find their way all the way up to the church building but don't actually attend services. At one parish it was a group of male gypsies who talked on cellphones or smoked cigarettes. At another it was a few Protestant husbands who, though they never attended services, opened the parish doors for people as they filed in. At yet another parish the men stood in the narthex and chatted until it was time to receive and then got in line. Latin or Greek Catholic, Eastern or Oriental Orthodox I see the same small throng of men standing next to the front door, but not standing, sitting, or kneeling amongst the people. If it were me (and I can only speak for myself here) this option would be an unsavory one. The boredom would be immediate. The anxiety of som...
Read more