Background:
1. This is a film adapted from a real historical story. The story takes place at the junction of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina at the end of the 18th century. The scenery here is beautiful, beautiful, waterfalls, jungles, and rivers-the beauty is suffocating.
2. The Guaranni tribal living area is a disputed area between the colonies of Spain and Portugal. This place has a very important economic position in South America.
3. The Jesuit priests come to preach and help the local people build their homes. They have high prestige. The priests often violate the will of the two imperial courts, and the two countries force the Jesuits to withdraw from South America. The end of the 18th century was the peak period for European countries to carry out colonial expansion around the world, and it was also the most difficult period for the Jesuits. They were squeezed out by European countries.
Origin: The
Spanish and Portuguese courts and the Holy See sent the cardinals to South America to resolve the conflict between the Jesuits and the court. The officials of the two countries persuaded the bishops to withdraw from the Jesuits. The bishops could not help but sigh when they saw the lives of the locals in South America. I wonder if the Indians here would have had a better life if we hadn't come." The
heavy armor
Rodriguez was a mercenary who worked in slave labor in South America. Because of a moment of anger, he killed his younger brother, desiring to live, and locked himself in the church cabin, living a life of blindness. Father Guy encouraged him to face it bravely and start a new life again--
Rodrigo began a cruel confession and torment, tied a heavy armor with a rope and set it on his shoulders to climb over the waterfall rock. God confessed that no matter how heavy the armor is in his heart, there is no weight as heavy as a cross. No matter how tortured, he cannot be forgiven of sins.
The priests saw his confession and torture, and all the priests thought it was enough. One priest cut the rope, and he ran down without saying a word, connected the rope, and pulled it back up again. The Bible says that a sad and contrite heart, The Lord will not despise. Accompanied by the priests, Rodriguez climbed to the living area of the Guañanis in the upper reaches of the waterfall with heavy armor. Obviously, the Guañanis accepted him. Although he had taken many of their relatives, a child was still cut off. After pulling the rope and pushing the armor into the river, Rodrigo, who was forgiven by everyone, was moved to tears. When the tears and mud were intertwined on a face, he also got a new life.
We often say: Once a mistake is made into eternal hatred, Rodriguez's story makes us understand-evil is easy, but atonement is hard.
The Will of the Evil The
Cardinal asked the natives to leave the church and said it was the will of God.
Aboriginal leader: God’s will is to leave the woods to establish churches. We don’t understand why God changed his mind.
Cardinal: I can't understand God's reason.
Aboriginal leader: How do I know that you understand God's will? I think you are speaking for the Portuguese.
Cardinal: I personally do not speak on behalf of God, but I speak on behalf of the church, which is God's messenger on earth.
Indigenous leader: Why not talk to the King of Portugal?
The cardinal said, I said, but he didn't listen.
Aboriginal leader: I am also a king, I do not listen to you, I believe you are wrong, we will do our best to fight-the
bishop ordered the Jesuit priest to go back with him, and is not allowed to support the indigenous people, otherwise they will be expelled Membership.
Cardinal: Why do they have to fight, why don't they go back to the woods?
Father Gai: Because this is their home.
A little girl from Guanani hugged Father Gai and said: I don’t want to go back to the forest. The church is our home.
Father Gai: I will be with you!
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Listen, what a moving reason: "I don't speak on behalf of God, I speak on behalf of the church, and the church is God's messenger on earth." How many Christians today still adhere to this creed, or follow this creed The same sophisticated dogma? How many people in this world are still unknowingly doing arrogant things in the "name of God"?
Christianity is still "fresh" in China. Most of us have not personally felt the harm of "religious sophistry", and we have never had the memory of the flames caused by the "God's will". May the Lord teach us to discover, perceive, understand, and distinguish from history what is God’s will and what “from the evil one”?
In the dust and ashes, regretting that the
negotiation broke down, it means that gunpowder will start. . . . . .
The church was burned down, people who believed in God were expelled by another group of people who believed in God. They were taken off their white clothes in the church. Women, children, and babies were forced to return to the forest. Eternal life was gained in the flames of war-the cardinal's letter to the king said: "Holy, your priests are dead, only I live. In fact, I am dead, and they live forever---"
History has once again proved one thing: economic and political needs have nothing to do with God.
The transformation of society itself is also a process of self-renewal of human beings-in the chaos away from God. This is certainly the work of the Holy Spirit. However, the role of the Holy Spirit is for the human being as a whole. There will still be partial regressions in this process, and people are still required to do things in the name of God and the touch of the Holy Spirit. What they do must be in the interests of a certain group (group), because they have taught everyone in advance that the group (group) conforms to the will of God. So to obey the group is to obey God, just like the cardinal, using sophistry to deceive people.
In creation, man is a seemingly powerful but weak animal. Like the cardinal, we are all living in the maelstrom of the concept of the times, political ideals, economic interests, and social habits. We often cannot help ourselves. Forget the teachings of God!
Jesus said: Caesar’s angelic belongs to Caesar, and God's angelic belongs to God. Perhaps it is difficult for us to know what belongs to God and what belongs to Caesar. However, as long as we put ourselves in love and stand in the light, everything will be clear-because God is light, and light can dispel darkness, the Lord will tell us in the most wonderful way.
May the Lord have mercy on us, Amen.
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