A movie worthy of a view<br/><br/>

The movie?The Passion of the Christ?had its first view to the public on February 25 in 125 cinemas all over Canada. It was the Ash Wednesday.<br/><br/>

Fr. Tom Rosica, the CEO of the World Youth Day 2002, had been invited for a preview of this movie. He said, “This movie allows me to understand more thoroughly about the significance and truthfulness of the Blessed Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. I could even say ?The Passion of the Christ?is a depiction of Mass.”<br/><br/>

The Most Rev. Marcel Gervais, Archbishop of Ottawa, is a specialist in “Conferential Dialogue between Christians and Judaists”. In his pastoral letter to his archdiocese dated February 15, he stated that there was not at all in this movie, any inflicting message against the feeling of the Jewish people.<br/><br/>

However, the fear, apprehension and anxiety which the Jewish people expressed are not of no cause. According to the past events record, whenever there was dramatic and theatrical performance about the passion of Jesus Christ, it happened that some incidents of persecution towards Jews did occur.<br/><br/>

Mel Gibson, the director of this movie, acknowledged that the Sanhedrin (Supreme Council of the Jews) had convicted a death sentence on Jesus Christ was a historical fact. Basically, the wicked evil of human is the real culprit of Jesus’ passion and death.