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They are free and great sons of God
Rylan 2022-03-23 09:03:06
The introduction at the beginning of the film is a sentence from the Bible: You are the sons of God, but you came to this world in the flesh. Those who dedicate their bodies to Jesus and their hearts to the world are working hard to fulfill the mission of the Son of God. But the sudden change brought unprecedented waves to their peaceful and pious life. The fear of death, the struggle for power, and the refutation of right and wrong make confusion shrouded this originally harmonious group. Whether to leave, either by faith or by the villagers who need them? They sat around struggling, confused, praying, awakening. One day, they find a way to help them overcome all knots. They are united again to face true death...they are truly free and great sons of God!
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Christian: We are martyrs out of love, out of fidelity. If death overtake us, despite ourselves, because up to the end, up to the end we'll try to avoid it. Our mission here is to be brothers to all. Remember that love is eternal hope. Love endures everything.
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Christian: Once they were gone, all we had left to do was live. And the first thing we did was - two hours later - we celebrated the Christmas vigil and mass. It's what we had to do. It's what we did. And we sang the mass. We welcomed that child who was born for us absolutely helpless and already so threatened. Afterwards, we found salvation in undertaking our daily tasks: The kitchen, the garden, the prayers, the bells. Day after day, we had to resist the violence. And day after day, I think each of us discovered that to which Jesus Christ beckons us: It's to be born. Our identities as men go from one birth to another. And from birth to birth, we'll each end up bringing to the world the child of God that we are. The incarnation, for us, is to allow the filial reality of Jesus to embody itself in our humanity. The mystery of incarnation remains what we are going to live. In this way, what we've already lived here takes root as well as what we're going to live in the future.