Rodriguez was alone in the cage of his practice, listening to the tormentor’s painful wailing and using it as the jailer’s snoring. It was not this passage that was repeated silently, but the passage where Jesus called to God in the Garden of Gethsemane. He believed that he was undergoing the same test as Jesus. Rodriguez, as a priest, has the right to listen to the confession of believers and forgive them, thus performing his duties on behalf of God. Perhaps for this reason, whether it was when he was starving in the mountains, when he was betrayed by Yoshijiro, when he was on horseback, when he was scolded by the people, or when he prayed alone in prison, he always used His own experience is analogous to the experience of Jesus and the process of suffering. He deliberately or unconsciously thinks about his problems from the perspective of the son of God in the gospels. Yoshijiro, who betrayed him repeatedly, seems to be his Judas, and God's silence is like a test to him. Rodriguez's love for Jesus at this time is like a love for a higher and more perfect self. Jesus is a person in his heart, with a handsome and solemn face that fascinates him.
But Rodriguez is not a Jesus who can be resurrected from the dead. In fact, on the way to Japan, when the face of Jesus appeared in front of him and asked him to "feed my sheep" three times, Rodriguez had unconsciously implied his true identity: he went to Japan to preach with longing. The priest is more similar to the apostle Peter who was ordered to build the church on rock. Peter is the most frequently mentioned disciple of Jesus in the Gospels. His original name was Simon. He was given the name "Peter" (meaning stone) and the key to the kingdom of heaven. He was also one of the witnesses of Jesus' resurrection. After Jesus ascended to heaven, Peter became the leader of the disciples, continued preaching and planting churches, and finally died of martyrdom. Catholics believe that Peter was the first Pope of Rome. However, Peter's image in the Four Gospels is not completely positive. This fisherman's disciple seems to be a fickle man. When Jesus predicted that he would suffer, Peter urged him to “never do this” (Matthew 16:22). Jesus accused him of being Satan because he was “not considerate of God’s will, but only considerate of man’s meaning” (Ma Matt 16:23). Peter is indeed the most "human" among the twelve disciples. After the passage of the Bible quoted at the beginning of this article, Peter not only fell asleep with the other disciples when Jesus was alone at night prayer, but also as Jesus predicted, When Jesus was on trial in the Sanhedrin three times, he denied that he knew Jesus. Then he cried with regret when he heard the cock crowing.
When I first read the Bible, I found it strange that a disciple like Peter and Judas, who betrayed Jesus for thirty silver coins, seemed to do things of the same nature. Why did he become the shepherd of Jesus and the cornerstone of the church? Later, I gradually understood that even when he betrayed Jesus, Jesus was still willing to forgive Judas. Judas's greatest sin was his suicide and ended his life. There was no chance to repent and make changes. And Peter cried when the cock crowed. This moment was his new life. In self-blame, he realized that he still believed in the Lord, and from the moment he no longer believed because of Jesus’ side, he was completely spontaneous and completely spontaneous. One’s beliefs, only such beliefs can shine on others.
Rodriguez trampled on the statue of Christ just before the cock crows, and then no longer called himself a Christian, but buried his faith deeply in his heart. Si influenced at least Yoshijiro and his wife, making them true Christians, so that the seeds of God sprouted secretly in the Japanese quagmire-these humiliating experiences coincided with Peter's life. Rodriguez, who no longer baptized and forgive others, brought true Christianity to this country in his silence. Like Peter, the moment when he trampled on the statue of Christ and cried and repented was also a moment of new life for Rodriguez. In the film, the handsome face of Jesus in the fantasy disappears into the darkness. In reality, there is only a simple and dirty wooden board on which the crucified Jesus is roughly depicted. What Rodriguez abandoned was the humanoid god who occupied his soul, and the first step in faith was to abandon the "ego." God is neither an imaginary image nor on the wooden board underfoot. God is not there and is everywhere, and God is in the heart of man. When God is silent when people are in trouble, he is not a believer who abandons himself, but suffers with him. God is man’s love for others, God is not “yes”, and in every act of love, God’s pain is love’s pain—it can be said that Rodriguez, who was once a priest, is abandoning It is the first time to gain faith after learning religion.
After trampling on the icon, Rodriguez, who lives in Japan as a Japanese, said in front of Yoshijiro: "Everything I'm doing, everything I've done, I tell him." ("speaks of" him"). "He" means God. Facing his own "Peter"-Yoshijiro who betrayed him but never gave up his faith, Rodriguez, who can no longer see the face of Jesus, once again realized that God exists in his actions, if everyone's heart is filled with A world, then the God who exists in the heart is the creator and changer of this world-with the help of human hands. The apostate priest, he is Peter, who has rescued his followers and conveyed his faith to others, he has Christ in his heart.
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