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On a remote island, a secluded monastery faces a profound test of faith. When the modern world challenges centuries-old traditions, the monks must choose between preserving their beliefs or embracing change. A captivating story about conviction, change, and the struggle to keep the faith alive.
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00:07:27Oh, it's that flying thingamajig from Dingle.
00:07:32I've seen him passing over here months the time.
00:07:35Is he broke down or what?
00:07:37Did you not hear it come in a minute ago?
00:07:39Sure, how could I?
00:07:40And I down in the califactory room,
00:07:42picking the stems off the berries.
00:07:45Oh, that's not the priest from Rome, surely.
00:07:48I should say it is.
00:07:50You're supposed to have to wear special clothes
00:07:52to go up in one of them things.
00:07:54Now, go on now, Paul.
00:07:55Tell Brother Martin to send the visitor off.
00:07:58I'll do that, Father.
00:08:05Carry your bag, Father.
00:08:06All right.
00:08:16Carry right on up to the top, Father.
00:08:18All right, thank you.
00:08:19Good to meet you, Father.
00:08:20I'm James Kinsella.
00:08:21Padraig left you at the pier.
00:08:22I'm sorry about that.
00:08:23It seems he mistook you for a reporter.
00:08:24And you've been having lots of them, I'm told.
00:08:25But you came on your own, anyway.
00:08:26Enterprising.
00:08:27But you know that's the first flying machine
00:08:28ever to land on Morgant.
00:08:29Until now, it's as if we'd missed the century.
00:08:32Would you have preferred that?
00:08:33Preferred what?
00:08:34To have missed this century.
00:08:35To have been born in another time.
00:08:36I should think not.
00:08:37Under the English, unless you had a lust
00:08:38to be an artist, it was not a time to be a martyr.
00:08:40It was not a time to be a martyr.
00:08:42It was not a time to be a martyr.
00:08:43Of course, I forgot.
00:08:44Oh, this is my ecumenical order of mission.
00:08:45And this letter is for you from Father General.
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00:09:41This is a very special day.
00:10:07I've been an Albanese monk for 45 years,
00:10:10yet this is the first time I've ever had a letter signed by our father-general.
00:10:14A pity it has to be a letter of censure.
00:10:17But it's not menace such, I can assure you.
00:10:19Well, the tone is firm.
00:10:22In conclusion, I will only say that while Father Kinsella is with you to hear explanations,
00:10:28be it understood his decision is mine, and as such irrevocable.
00:10:33Now, that sounds as if I'm in hot water.
00:10:36A cup of tea?
00:10:38No, thank you.
00:10:40Ah, you will.
00:10:41Martin, bring us a cup of tea!
00:10:43Toaches!
00:10:45I'd just like to have another look at this if I may.
00:10:48Of course.
00:10:49Do you have a television here?
00:11:03Well, sometimes, when something big's going on in the world, we draw lots and five of us bicycle down to Doran's in the village.
00:11:10He has the television.
00:11:11Only five, mind.
00:11:12It's a small place.
00:11:13You know, of course, that the mass your monks say over on the mainland was shown on a television program two months ago.
00:11:19Indeed we do.
00:11:20Haven't we heard of nothing else ever since?
00:11:22Who'd have thought the Latin mass could still be so popular?
00:11:26That program has been seen and discussed by millions of Catholics all over the world.
00:11:30You don't.
00:11:31Extraordinary.
00:11:32Now, here's retain, Father Abbott.
00:11:33Thank you, Martin.
00:11:34Now, would you like an egg with that?
00:11:35No, no.
00:11:36We're having salmon for supper.
00:11:37Salmon?
00:11:38Yes, salmon.
00:11:39If Father Manners can find us a few in the ocean pool.
00:11:40It's an occasion, Martin.
00:11:41Father Kinsella's come all the way from Rome.
00:11:43This bread is our own baking.
00:11:45Irish soda bread.
00:11:46I hope you like it.
00:11:48Poor Martin is getting on.
00:11:50We all are here.
00:11:53Last year I said to Father Matthew.
00:11:54He's our master of notices.
00:11:56This bread is our own baking. Irish soda bread. I hope you like it.
00:12:04Poor Martin, he's getting on. We all are here.
00:12:08Last year, I said to Father Matthew, he's our master of novices.
00:12:12Matthew, I said, when you retire, we'll retire the job with you.
00:12:15But not one recruited I see coming along.
00:12:18But now, after that television program, I can find enough recruits to fill a regiment.
00:12:24I suppose that's a relief.
00:12:26No, it is not.
00:12:28You're not anxious for new recruits?
00:12:30I am not.
00:12:31It's a hard life on this island. Fishing, droying kelp.
00:12:35Oh, farm in for a few potatoes. It rains a lot.
00:12:38And the monastery's cold. There's no way of heating it properly.
00:12:41And we often find it difficult to make ends meet.
00:12:44But isn't that the thing about hardship?
00:12:46I mean, men will accept it if they feel it's for a worthwhile cause.
00:12:49Just so.
00:12:50But the monastic life, as you know yourself, Father, it's often something different.
00:12:54I break all clergy into two groups, Mr. Hal.
00:12:57Proselytizers or prayers.
00:13:00Or if you like, missionaries or monks.
00:13:02But monks can also be missionaries through it.
00:13:05Not on Mork Island.
00:13:07It takes a special vocation to live in a place like this.
00:13:10Not many have it.
00:13:12I do not have it myself, I sometimes think.
00:13:20You've lived on this island most of your life, no?
00:13:22That does not mean to say I like it.
00:13:24You prefer to be somewhere else?
00:13:26I did not say that.
00:13:27Of course not. I'm sorry.
00:13:32I suppose I'm the missionary type myself.
00:13:34I've always wanted to go to South America.
00:13:36To be one of Father Hartman's revolutionaries, overthrowing the government?
00:13:40You've heard.
00:13:41Is Father Gustave Hartman a fine man?
00:13:44He is. He was my teacher.
00:13:46In South America?
00:13:47No. No, I studied with him in Boston.
00:13:50He's crippled now, you know.
00:13:52No, I did not know him.
00:13:54Yes, the Brazilian military has tortured him so many times that they finally broke his back.
00:13:58I should like to meet you.
00:14:02What sort of thing does he teach in those classes of these?
00:14:05Well, he believes that the church is now the perfect structure
00:14:08through which social revolution can be brought in certain underdeveloped areas of the world.
00:14:11And he shows how it can be done.
00:14:16Tell me, does he talk much about God?
00:14:19In what way do you mean?
00:14:21I don't know. Forget it.
00:14:23No, go on, please.
00:14:25Well, what I mean is, is it souls he's after?
00:14:29Or is it the good of mankind?
00:14:31I would say the second.
00:14:34I gathered as much.
00:14:36Well, of course, I'm not much up on those things.
00:14:39I was never one for the missionary impulse myself.
00:14:42But your zeal for the old mass, your continuance of the Latin ritual here,
00:14:45surely that can be interpreted as missionary spirit?
00:14:48I thought you'd get wrong with that.
00:14:50Now, come on. Let's go out.
00:14:51See if Manus has caught the salmon for our supper.
00:14:54You stay the night?
00:14:56Well, we've got a lot to talk about.
00:14:59We do.
00:15:01What did you tell the man with the helicopter?
00:15:03If I ring, he could be here in an hour.
00:15:05Well, call him in the morning, then. Come on.
00:15:08Mind the step now.
00:15:11I know. We don't want to trip up Rome.
00:15:14Good day.
00:15:15Hello.
00:15:16Well, dear, I would say.
00:15:17Hi.
00:15:18Cool clear.
00:15:19Where's Manus?
00:15:20I hear Ted.
00:15:21He's looking for a couple of fish.
00:15:22Well, then.
00:15:23Let's go see what he's got.
00:15:24Well, then.
00:15:25Let's go see what he's got.
00:15:27Oh, dear, Ted.
00:15:28He's looking for a couple of fish.
00:15:30Well, then.
00:15:31Let's go see what he's got.
00:15:57That's Father Manus.
00:16:11He said the mask when the television people came.
00:16:14When he catches salmon, he puts them in that pool there.
00:16:17Then when the boat goes to the mainland, we sell them.
00:16:19They fetch a good price, too.
00:16:21So it's a special treat tonight, eating salmon ourselves.
00:16:24It's things like that.
00:16:25It's the little things that keeps us going here.
00:16:28The jam in our lives.
00:16:35He's a shy man.
00:16:36When the television people tried to talk to him, he couldn't speak.
00:16:39He's dying to talk to you, though, I warn you.
00:16:42Still, that's what you're here for, isn't it?
00:16:44Explanations.
00:16:45Wasn't that what the Father General called them?
00:16:48Ah!
00:16:49We have our fish!
00:17:01Well, now.
00:17:02Hello, the rabbits.
00:17:03How about these?
00:17:04How do they do?
00:17:05Yes, I think they do.
00:17:06I think they do nicely.
00:17:08And this is Father Kinsella, all the way from Rome.
00:17:10Our champion fisherman, Father Manus.
00:17:12Father?
00:17:13Glad to know you.
00:17:14Oh, from Rome.
00:17:15So you're the man from Rome?
00:17:17Yes.
00:17:18I'd never have thought.
00:17:20Why?
00:17:21What were you expecting?
00:17:23Well, I didn't know.
00:17:24I was expecting somebody of this older.
00:17:27You know, more the Sergeant Major type.
00:17:30And Italian.
00:17:31You're not Italian.
00:17:32You're American, aren't you?
00:17:33Yes, I am.
00:17:36Well, I'm delighted, sir.
00:17:38Well, no, I'm not delighted at all because...
00:17:41We don't know what you're going to do here.
00:17:44Do we?
00:17:45You hold your tongue now, Manus.
00:17:47Hold your tongue.
00:17:48You know, when he was a little boy, they told him it was a sin to tell a lie.
00:17:52And I don't think he's told once since.
00:17:54But seriously, Father, I'd love to have a bit of a talk with you sometime.
00:17:59Because, you know, what's been happening here is quite astonishing.
00:18:03Yes, yes.
00:18:04Well, I think that we'd better go inside if you want to have a word with the Father.
00:18:08Come now.
00:18:09Let's go.
00:18:14Oh, we can't bring that with us as well.
00:18:16Sure we can.
00:18:17Okay.
00:18:18Good night, sir.
00:18:19Good night, sir.
00:18:29All right.
00:18:31All right.
00:18:32I'm your referee.
00:18:33Oh.
00:18:34No, Manus.
00:18:35Here's a chance.
00:18:36Get at it.
00:18:37Yes.
00:18:38What are we going to say?
00:18:39Yeah.
00:18:40What's his husband say?
00:18:41Um...
00:18:42I've forgotten what he's going to say, but I can tell you this much.
00:18:45I haven't had a wink of sleep since I heard you were coming.
00:18:48Look.
00:18:49It's as plain as the nose on your face.
00:18:53I mean, we did nothing to start all this.
00:18:55We've been going over to the mainland and saying Mass every Sunday the way we always did.
00:19:00In Latin.
00:19:01The way we were brought up to say it.
00:19:04Whitler, the priest, and the people facing the altar.
00:19:07You see.
00:19:08Not facing God, you could say.
00:19:09Because there's the priest changing the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.
00:19:14The way Jesus told his disciples of the Last Supper.
00:19:18This is my body.
00:19:19This is my blood.
00:19:20Do ye this in commemoration of me.
00:19:24You see.
00:19:25You see.
00:19:26God sent his son on this earth.
00:19:30And he died for us.
00:19:31He died for our sins.
00:19:33And that's what the Mass is all about, you see.
00:19:36I mean, it's just that.
00:19:38A commemoration of his death.
00:19:41And it was always in Latin.
00:19:44Because Latin is the language of the church.
00:19:46And the church is universal.
00:19:47I mean, if a fellow could drop into a church anywhere in the world.
00:19:51Anywhere and hear the very itself same Mass.
00:19:54The Latin Mass.
00:19:55The only Mass there ever was.
00:19:57And the fact that it was in Latin.
00:20:00Well, that was part of the mystery.
00:20:02Because you...
00:20:03I mean, you weren't just talking to your neighbour.
00:20:05You were talking to all night and gone.
00:20:06You see.
00:20:08Anyway.
00:20:10That's the way we've been doing it for the past 2,000 years.
00:20:14You see.
00:20:15Well, just on 2,000 years.
00:20:18Oh, it's a mystery.
00:20:20Of course it's a mystery.
00:20:22But, I mean...
00:20:24Well, what you're giving us now, there's no mystery about that at all.
00:20:27I mean, it's only a mockery as far as I'm concerned.
00:20:29That same song.
00:20:31Because you're not talking to all night and gone.
00:20:33You're talking...
00:20:34You're talking to your neighbour.
00:20:35And that's why it's in English.
00:20:37Or German.
00:20:38Or Chinese.
00:20:39Or whatever...
00:20:40Well, whatever kind of language you want to use in the church.
00:20:43I mean, it's an entertainment, that's all it is.
00:20:47And, of course, the people see through it.
00:20:49Of course they do.
00:20:50And that's what has them coming here to Coom Mountain.
00:20:53If you could only see those people.
00:20:56Bareheaded.
00:20:58With the rain pelting off their faces.
00:21:01When they see that piece of bread that becomes the body and blood of Christ.
00:21:05Through the mystery and the miracle of the mass.
00:21:09And you wouldn't want to sweep all that away.
00:21:12Sure you wouldn't.
00:21:13To put in this place what?
00:21:15Well, what you had put in this place.
00:21:17With all this guitar playing.
00:21:19And singing.
00:21:20And turning around and touching your neighbour.
00:21:23And all that sort of prodigy.
00:21:25For no other reason than to bring people into the church.
00:21:30The way we used to bring them into the parish hall for a game of bingo.
00:21:33I know.
00:21:36Hmm.
00:21:37I wish I had all that conviction, Ernest.
00:21:41You see, we have a lot of sermons in us here.
00:21:44In the back and behind.
00:21:46Yes.
00:21:47But see, what I'm saying.
00:21:48I mean, it's the God's truth.
00:21:50The habit of Bernier.
00:21:52I don't know what God's truth is to any of us.
00:21:56If we did, there'd be no arguments between us.
00:22:00Well, would they?
00:22:02Hmm.
00:22:03No.
00:22:04I suppose not.
00:22:05Well, and it reminds me, there's nothing personal.
00:22:08Do you understand?
00:22:09Oh, of course, Father.
00:22:10I know that.
00:22:11I appreciate hearing your point of view.
00:22:13You do.
00:22:16I found the lamb.
00:22:18Good man, you sir.
00:22:19Where was it?
00:22:20Lying in Collins' Old Bowden.
00:22:22Right against a pony.
00:22:23Yeah, and the pony didn't mind.
00:22:25It took a little bit.
00:22:26There's a power of prayer for you.
00:22:27Oh, it took more than prayer.
00:22:28It took the whole day.
00:22:29Well.
00:22:30We'll see you at supper.
00:22:32Come.
00:22:33I'll show you our church.
00:22:34Yeah.
00:22:35Come on.
00:22:36Little sustenance now.
00:22:37Oh, sure.
00:22:41Take this.
00:22:42No, she'll be starving.
00:22:55Here we are.
00:23:13Say, you were in Rome at the time of Pope John, weren't you, that time you were ill?
00:23:17I was not ill.
00:23:18I went on a holiday to England, and then on to the shrine at Lourdes, and then on to Rome.
00:23:24Where did you hear that I was ill?
00:23:26It's Irish Romanesque.
00:23:27Twelve century, isn't it?
00:23:28Beautiful, isn't it?
00:23:29Yep.
00:23:30There are advantages to being in a backwood.
00:23:31This is one of the abbeys in Ireland that escaped being almost entirely destroyed by Cromwell.
00:23:42And was interviewed.
00:23:43You studied at Buckmore Abbey in England, didn't you?
00:23:44Yes.
00:23:45That's a beautiful question.
00:23:46It is.
00:23:47Have you ever thought of asking for a transfer?
00:23:48A transfer?
00:23:49To some place less remote.
00:23:50It could be arranged, you know.
00:23:51No.
00:23:52All the abbots of Mork have buried here.
00:23:53Fifty-one.
00:23:54All the abbots of Mork have buried here.
00:23:55Fifty-one.
00:23:56All the abbots of Mork have buried here.
00:23:57Fifty-one.
00:23:58All the abbots of Mork have buried here.
00:23:59Fifty-one of them all laid down like bottles of wine.
00:24:00God willing, I'll be fifty-two.
00:24:01Ah.
00:24:02A stupid ambition, but I have it.
00:24:03It's funny.
00:24:04But this place is no summer resort, but every time I take to the mainland, I will not sleep
00:24:05there.
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00:24:26I'll be back there and i'll take to the mainland.
00:24:27I will not sleep there if i can get back in.
00:24:32I feel at home here.
00:24:33I feel at home nowhere else.
00:24:37One of you were ordered to went on the monastery
00:24:40I hope.
00:24:41Father general, of course.
00:24:49I hope, I would hope.
00:24:53Holy God, we praise thy name, Lord of all, we bow before thee, all on earth thy scepter
00:25:13of our own, for in heaven above adore thee, if in a light of glory, everlasting is thy name.
00:25:43Well, there you are. We'll have supper at seven. I'll pick you up at six-thirty.
00:26:03Okay.
00:26:13I'll pick you up at seven.
00:26:15Oh, my god.
00:26:17What?
00:26:19Oh, my God.
00:26:25Oh, my God.
00:26:27Oh, my God.
00:26:31Oh, my God.
00:26:36Let's go.
00:27:06Father John.
00:27:09Father.
00:27:10Father Colum.
00:27:11How do you do?
00:27:12Father Kevin.
00:27:13Father Kinsella from our mother house in Rome.
00:27:16Father Terence.
00:27:17In charge of our farm here.
00:27:19How are you, Father?
00:27:20Brother Alphonsus.
00:27:21Brother.
00:27:22Did you come all the way from Rome and that flying machine?
00:27:24No.
00:27:25Did you hear what Brother Alphonsus wants to know?
00:27:27That's a helicopter, Alphonsus.
00:27:29It couldn't fly all the way from Rome.
00:27:31Father Daniel.
00:27:33Overhead.
00:27:34Father Matthew, our master of notices.
00:27:37What notices?
00:27:38I'm Jack of all trades and master of knowledge.
00:27:40Hardly so.
00:27:41Is Father Kinsella from Rome?
00:27:42I know he's from Rome.
00:27:43Indeed we all do.
00:27:45You are here because of the wonderful storm masses on the mainland.
00:27:48Do you know that we had six charter flights from Boston and New York last month?
00:27:51Yes, Paul.
00:27:52Brother.
00:27:53What are you saying, Father?
00:27:54I was saying that I hope that you will not try to change our ways.
00:27:58What do you mean?
00:27:59The mass, Father.
00:28:00I will be honest with you.
00:28:02It would be a crime if we were prevented from doing this holy work.
00:28:05I will eat.
00:28:06My deputy, Father Walter.
00:28:08Father Walter.
00:28:09There you go.
00:28:10Father.
00:28:11Father, consider it now.
00:28:12You sit on my right and Walter, you sit on his other side.
00:28:16Then you'll be surrounded by the more kind of establishments.
00:28:29Oculi omnium in te sperant Domine.
00:28:32Ec tu, venas estiam adonum in tempere artunum.
00:28:37Amen.
00:28:38員 of meitia ис-elè,
00:28:39benedict Domine-nosb.
00:28:40Et hec tua donna quede Tua lagitate sumas sumturi ita facilities dominum nos' 컬�um.
00:28:59Amen.
00:29:00No, it's very special.
00:29:30Thank you very much, God of the Holy Spirit...
00:29:34...for the universe and the benefits of you...
00:29:38...who lived and lived in a century and a century.
00:29:41Amen.
00:29:43May we have a word with you, Father?
00:29:46Yes.
00:29:47Yes.
00:29:48Yes.
00:29:49Yes.
00:29:50Yes.
00:29:51Yes.
00:29:52Yes.
00:29:53Yes.
00:29:54Yes.
00:29:55Yes.
00:29:56Yes.
00:29:57May we have a word with you, Father?
00:30:00Father, consider, and I have much to discuss.
00:30:03We'll go up to my parlour now for a cup of tea.
00:30:05We haven't had a chance to meet our visitor.
00:30:07Affairs of state, Father, work before play.
00:30:09This way, please.
00:30:10May I not just ask him one thing?
00:30:12Good night, Father Matthew.
00:30:14Get excited.
00:30:15You know what they call you?
00:30:17The Inquisitor.
00:30:19I'm hardly that.
00:30:20That's a good one, isn't it?
00:30:22But what if you have a case of heresy on your hands?
00:30:25As the general's man, you have the power to act against us, don't you?
00:30:28Oh, look.
00:30:29This is the end of the 20th century, not the beginning of the 13th.
00:30:32I mean, how can we even define a case of heresy today?
00:30:36I'll define this one for you.
00:30:38Yesterday's orthodoxy is today's heresy.
00:30:41But, Father Abbott, we're merely trying to create a uniform posture within the church.
00:30:46If everybody decides to worship in his own way, obviously that will create this unity.
00:30:50And a dish of tea.
00:30:54All right.
00:30:55Milk and sugar.
00:30:56No, black's fine.
00:30:58All right.
00:30:59Explanations, as the Father General calls them.
00:31:03Where shall I begin?
00:31:05Did you know Ireland was the only country in the world where, once upon a time, every Catholic went to Mass over Sunday?
00:31:13Everyone.
00:31:14Even the men.
00:31:15That's impressive.
00:31:16Until the time of Pope John, that was, when the new Mass came in.
00:31:20Well, we were like everybody else.
00:31:23We obeyed orders, went over to the mainland, and said the new Mass in English.
00:31:27And the people stopped coming to church?
00:31:30Oh.
00:31:31Some women.
00:31:32But the men and the boys stood outside smoking.
00:31:35So I was worried.
00:31:37I said to the monks, what on earth are we doing if we cannot persuade the people to come back into the church?
00:31:42It's the priest's job to keep their faith in Almighty God.
00:31:46And I don't want to tamper with their faith.
00:31:48So I decided we'd go back and say the old Mass in the old way.
00:31:53And, well, that's the whole story.
00:31:55Well, hardly.
00:31:57This spring you had 20 charter flights from Europe alone, plus pilgrimage groups from the United States and Canada.
00:32:04So large, in fact, that no church could hold the crowds.
00:32:07So you set up shop on a big scale upon Coombe Mountain, which in Cromwell's time was associated with rebellion.
00:32:12Mass was set in secret by outlawed priests, with some member of the congregation as lookout.
00:32:16Hmm.
00:32:17Yet that was a mistake.
00:32:19But at the time I didn't see the connection.
00:32:21I just wanted to accommodate the crowds.
00:32:24But you accepted a gift of loudspeakers from the local merchants here.
00:32:28The people couldn't hear the service.
00:32:30It's customary to accept gifts that aim at enhancing worship.
00:32:35And private confessions, Father Abbott.
00:32:38Is that another accommodation?
00:32:40The people here are very conservative.
00:32:42But you know as well as I that private confessions are no longer permitted, except in cases where the sin is so grave that special counsel is required.
00:32:49But what am I to do?
00:32:51The people here still think it's a special sin to molest a child or take another man's wife, all that sort of thing.
00:32:59What am I to do if the people still believe that sin is mortal to the soul?
00:33:05I know it must be difficult for you to accept, Father Abbott.
00:33:09But the idea of Catholics confessing their sins to a priest in private is very distasteful to other groups within our ecumenical brotherhood.
00:33:16And now that the new and easier form has been sanctioned by Vatican IV.
00:33:20Well, you've read the debate, surely.
00:33:22That's agreed.
00:33:23I know I'm out of step, but that's not the reason why you're here.
00:33:26You know why I'm here.
00:33:28You know what's happening here.
00:33:30Mount Coombe has become a place of international religious pilgrimage.
00:33:33You mean a sort of Lourdes?
00:33:36As Lourdes was before it was closed down, yes.
00:33:38We're not like Lourdes.
00:33:41There are no miracles here.
00:33:44You went there once, didn't you?
00:33:47A long time ago, yes.
00:33:50After Lourdes, when you journeyed on the wrong, you asked for a meeting with our spiritual director there.
00:33:56You said that what you'd seen at Lourdes had caused you to have some religious doubts.
00:34:00It's a long time ago.
00:34:02It's irrelevant to this discussion.
00:34:05Well, there could be a connection.
00:34:07Some men compensate for former doubts by an excessive devotion.
00:34:11There is a file on me in Rome?
00:34:14Well, the order tries to keep complete personnel records.
00:34:17You know that.
00:34:18Listen, I'll be frank.
00:34:19We've just learned that now an American network is planning a special program on your mass here, and Father General is very worried.
00:34:26So that's it?
00:34:28Well, why didn't you say so?
00:34:30I can ban the telepeople, no trouble at all.
00:34:33Even the President of the United States can't ban American television.
00:34:36I can refuse to have them filming on Holy Ground.
00:34:39No.
00:34:40If you do that, you may lend this a significance you never intended.
00:34:43You see, what's happening here is being interpreted by some commentators as the first stirrings of a Catholic counter-revolution.
00:34:48Ah, sure, that's nonsense.
00:34:50The Church is one body, Father Abbott.
00:34:52What one part does affects the whole.
00:34:55How I envy you.
00:34:58It must be rewarding to be like you, to feel you can change something in a world like ours.
00:35:05Next month, the first World Congress of Christian and Buddhist faiths will meet in Bangkok,
00:35:11and Father General has been chosen as president of that meeting.
00:35:14Now, any scandal about our order at this time could be fatal to the success of that meeting.
00:35:19A powerful faction is already in opposition.
00:35:21The Pungi demonstrations in Singapore last month were the beginnings of that opposition.
00:35:25Now do you see what I'm talking about?
00:35:27All I see is that because some Congress is going on at the other end of the world,
00:35:31we have to give up the old mass here on Mount Coombe.
00:35:34It makes you wonder, what does the mass mean nowadays?
00:35:40In Rome, what does it mean?
00:35:44Well, religion has been opened up everywhere.
00:35:46The individual conscience is very important.
00:35:48Things are much more free.
00:35:49Free, did you say?
00:35:51Look, you are an abbot with the powers of a bishop.
00:35:56I needn't explain the importance for the seniors in our order to act in concert and set an example.
00:36:01I asked you a question about the mass.
00:36:04I don't think you answered me, Father.
00:36:08The Vatican maintains that it's no longer obligatory for Catholics to believe that the bread and wine on the altar
00:36:18are actually changed into the body and blood of Christ, except symbolically.
00:36:23I mean, it's no longer necessary to think of God as actually being present there in the tabernacle.
00:36:29So, a man doesn't need a big dose of faith anymore?
00:36:35I'm sorry?
00:36:37Nothing.
00:36:40So, unless I abandon the Latin mass, I will be disciplined, is that it?
00:36:46I wish you wouldn't put it quite that way.
00:36:48What other way is there to put it?
00:36:51I'd like to know what powers you have.
00:36:55Well, in, shall we say, a situation of deadlock, I am empowered to order your immediate transfer
00:37:04and to install an acting abbot in your place.
00:37:07Sounds like the old days.
00:37:09There's a great deal at stake here, Father Abbott.
00:37:11I hope we won't be forced to invoke such serious measures.
00:37:16I hope so, too.
00:37:19You don't seem to be well up on the new ecumenical rule of the World Council of Churches, Father.
00:37:28The rule?
00:37:29If I choose to appeal to the Amsterdam Council, I cannot be transferred until the appeal is heard.
00:37:36That might take several months.
00:37:39In the meantime, there'd be a lot of publicity.
00:37:42Possibly.
00:37:43I might even become the first martyr in that counter-revolution you were talking about.
00:37:49I am sorry.
00:37:51I overlooked the question of an appeal to the ecumenical council.
00:37:56Hmm.
00:37:57Well, if I were in your shoes, maybe I'd have done the same thing myself.
00:38:03Hmm.
00:38:06However, as I do have that leeway...
00:38:11Excuse me, Father Abbott.
00:38:13When may I hope to have an answer for Father General?
00:38:16We'll talk about that tomorrow.
00:38:18Martin, I'll show you to your quarters.
00:38:23Ah.
00:38:24Father Abbott?
00:38:25Martin.
00:38:26Father Kinsella's going to bed.
00:38:29Bring a light along for the road.
00:38:31He's not a nice cat like yourself.
00:38:33Yeah, do that, Father Abbott.
00:38:36Well, didn't you eat the biscuits then?
00:38:39Try a lemon puff.
00:38:41They're first class.
00:38:45I'll pick you up at eight.
00:38:47Good night.
00:38:48Good night, Father Abbott.
00:38:49Good night.
00:38:50Good night, Father Abbott.
00:38:52Good night.
00:38:53Thank you, Father.
00:38:55Well, Father Kinsella.
00:38:56Yeah.
00:38:57There's a telephone call for you.
00:38:59It's all right, Martin.
00:39:00I'll take him down.
00:39:01Thank you, Kevin.
00:39:02Father Kinsella, there's a telephone call for you.
00:39:09Oh, thank you.
00:39:10It's all right, Martin. I'll take him back.
00:39:12Thank you, Kevin.
00:39:15Oh, it's Western Helicopters. Your pilot calling from Dinkins.
00:39:19Hello. Kinsella here.
00:39:21Yes, Father. I called earlier.
00:39:24There's a hull of a storm moving up from the coast of Spain.
00:39:27Unless you get out tomorrow morning, you could be locked in for days.
00:39:30I see.
00:39:32Well, look, I don't know when I can leave here.
00:39:36Tell you what. I'll call you before 9 tomorrow morning.
00:39:40Can you be ready to come in if I give the word?
00:39:42Surely, Father.
00:39:43Grant. I'll see you soon, I hope.
00:39:45Thank you for calling.
00:39:47Do priests from Rome not dress like priests anymore?
00:39:51Oh, no. Only on special occasions.
00:39:55You're one of those new priests, aren't you? The revolutionaries.
00:39:59Are you interested in that?
00:40:01Tell me, is it true, in South America, some priests are overthrowing the government?
00:40:07Yes, they are.
00:40:09How can they be doing the likes of that?
00:40:11Why not? The early Christians were revolutionaries, remember?
00:40:15What has that got to do with saving souls for God?
00:40:19Everything.
00:40:20Do you know that in places like South America, young priests our age are dying for the causes of social justice?
00:40:25What are they doing being priests?
00:40:27You know, if I wanted to join the IRA, I'd have joined the IRA.
00:40:31But I joined the church.
00:40:33So the church can be a powerful instrument of change.
00:40:35It can lead a revolution that people will follow.
00:40:37We have enormous influence.
00:40:39You know, that's trite.
00:40:41Look at the people over there on the mainland.
00:40:43They don't want your social justice.
00:40:45They want the old mass.
00:40:47They want to believe in something.
00:40:49Something more than this world can offer them.
00:40:51And what do you offer, Father?
00:40:53Well, perhaps a better life, Father, not pie in the sky.
00:40:56But you're a priest.
00:40:58That's not your job.
00:41:00They want you to forgive them their sins.
00:41:02To baptize them.
00:41:03Marry them.
00:41:04Bury them.
00:41:05Show them there's a God above them.
00:41:06A God who cares about them.
00:41:08The old parish priest knew that.
00:41:10You don't.
00:41:12I'm afraid you're wrong.
00:41:13You're out of step.
00:41:14Unless we alter our image, we'll lose the people.
00:41:16Times have changed.
00:41:17Yes, they have.
00:41:18And you and the likes of you are destroying the church, in my opinion.
00:41:22Well, what may I ask?
00:41:23Do you know about it, Father?
00:41:24You're stuck away here in this God-forsaken island.
00:41:26What do you know about what's happening out there in the world?
00:41:28You know, I do have eyes in my head.
00:41:30I see the people on Mount Coombe on a Sunday morning.
00:41:32I've seen it myself, Father.
00:41:34Well, you didn't know you had visitors.
00:41:37Is it my turn?
00:41:39Yes.
00:41:40I'll spell here for you.
00:41:42I'm supposed to see if Father can tell her to his quarters.
00:41:44Oh, no, no.
00:41:45Look, if you have some work to do, don't let me hold you up.
00:41:47I can find my way back.
00:41:49No, it's not work.
00:41:51I'm going to the church.
00:41:53We're praying all night to save the mass.
00:41:56I see.
00:41:58And, uh, who are we?
00:42:02Some of the monks.
00:42:03That's our way of trying to change things.
00:42:06Prayer.
00:42:08May I come with you?
00:42:12Well, why not?
00:42:40I swear on my mind.
00:42:41I have a key.
00:42:43I'm going with you.
00:42:44Good day of the Lord.
00:42:45I'm owing my head.
00:42:47Go Hmm.
00:42:49I have a Till Lent.
00:42:51Very early home.
00:42:52How Wow.
00:42:53Benedicta.
00:43:00Benedicta canari.
00:43:08So you're in on this.
00:43:27You have good news for us, I hope, Tomatis.
00:43:29I have no news. I asked you a question.
00:43:31Yes.
00:43:33I am the ringleader.
00:43:34Oh, no, you're not.
00:43:35Adding a light to your sins will not help whatever foolish aim you have in mind.
00:43:40You know very well what I have in mind.
00:43:42It's what we all have in our minds.
00:43:43Is it? Do you know my mind?
00:43:46But asking God's help isn't a sin.
00:43:49Breaking the law of obedience is.
00:43:52Tomas, you aren't going to be vexed with us, are you?
00:43:54I'm very disappointed in you, Walter.
00:43:58I want you to go out there and get them all off to bed at once.
00:44:00So our prayers have been answered.
00:44:02Nothing of the sort.
00:44:03We've worked to do here in the fields and in the abbey.
00:44:07The mackerel running, I want the debts out.
00:44:10We live by work here.
00:44:13I've told you a hundred times we're not a contemplative order.
00:44:16But this is a case where only the power of prayer can help.
00:44:19You cannot run a monastic community like a holiday camp, Walter.
00:44:25People taking it into their heads to stay up half the night
00:44:28without as much as a buyer or a win to leave.
00:44:30I asked everyone here to behave as usual while this visitor was here.
00:44:35I'm very disappointed, Walter.
00:44:37I am at fault, Father Abbott.
00:44:40But you're not the ringleaders.
00:44:41There's no use pretending you are.
00:44:44You are my deputy.
00:44:45And as my deputies who cannot obey orders, where am I?
00:44:51I'm sorry, Tomas.
00:44:53I'll get them off to bed.
00:44:55God bless you.
00:44:56Father Abbott says we must leave.
00:45:11Father Abbott says we must leave.
00:45:26And I want no holy vigils in sales, do you hear?
00:45:33The holiest thing every man, Jack, of you can do
00:45:35is to turn our pit to work in the morning.
00:45:56Father Abbott says we must leave.
00:46:24Father Matthews...
00:46:26Uh, Hull Abbott.
00:46:28Where are the others?
00:46:30What others?
00:46:31The vigil.
00:46:33What vigil?
00:46:35It is a vigil of devotion to Our Lady...
00:46:37...for the purpose of preserving the Latin Mass on Montcum...
00:46:40...and here on the island of Mark.
00:46:42The other monks have gone to bed.
00:46:44I have sent them to bed.
00:46:46Why did you do that, Hull Abbott?
00:46:48Because I am in charge here.
00:46:51Father Matthew, it is now some time since I've had to rebuke you.
00:46:55The last thing I want...
00:46:57...is to reopen our disagreements of former days.
00:47:00But there is work to be done tomorrow.
00:47:03You will please go to your bed.
00:47:05I have made a solemn promise to Our Lady...
00:47:07...to hold a vigil in her honor this night.
00:47:10When you were ordained as a monk...
00:47:12...you made a solemn promise to God...
00:47:15...to obey your superiors.
00:47:17Go to bed.
00:47:19May I ask then, Father Abbott...
00:47:22...what is your decision about the continuance of the Latin Mass on Montcum?
00:47:27I have been informed by Rome...
00:47:30...that the Mass is now to be regarded as a symbolic ritual.
00:47:34That is heresy, pure and simple.
00:47:37Why is it heresy, Matthew?
00:47:39Because the Mass is the daily miracle of the Catholic faith.
00:47:42Bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
00:47:45Without that, what is the Church?
00:47:47So our belief in Jesus Christ and His Church...
00:47:51...depends upon a belief in miracles.
00:47:53Is that it, Matthew?
00:47:54Of course, that is it.
00:47:56Saint Augustine said...
00:47:58...I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.
00:48:01Without a miracle, Christ did not rise from His tomb...
00:48:03...and ascend into Heaven.
00:48:05And without that, there would be no Christian touch.
00:48:08Our visitor brings us an order...
00:48:10...from our Father General in Rome.
00:48:13Would you obey that order if it instructed you...
00:48:17...to consider the Mass not as a miracle...
00:48:20...but simply as a pious ritual?
00:48:22If I be it for me to speak against my superiors...
00:48:26...but I am ashamed to hear that talk coming from you...
00:48:29...and under God's roof.
00:48:30Are you now?
00:48:32But on the other hand, it seems...
00:48:34...you're not ashamed to act against the orders of your superior...
00:48:37...even to the point of organizing the other monks to disobedience.
00:48:41I do not consider that I have been disobedient to our rule.
00:48:44You were told...
00:48:46...there would be no special observances tonight.
00:48:49I acted according to my conscience, Father Abbott.
00:48:51Hold your tongue and go to your cell.
00:48:54I want you in front of the chaplain at supper time tomorrow...
00:48:57...to apologize for your behavior.
00:48:59I've had enough of you all these years, Matthew.
00:49:01Insolence and insubordination...
00:49:03...is against every vow you took when you became a monk.
00:49:06You should be ashamed.
00:49:09Since you asked me to apologize, Father Abbott...
00:49:14...I humbly apologize.
00:49:16And since you ordered me to retire...
00:49:19...I obey your order.
00:49:39...I don't believe it...
00:49:41...you cannot understand...
00:49:46...you cannot understand the name of your conscience.
00:49:50I should have done a certain day...
00:49:52...but I should have said that...
00:49:54...you cannot understand the name of your conscience.
00:49:57They saw the fire's living still inside the dungeon's fire and storm.
00:50:27Oh, how our hearts seem high with joy, whene'er we hear that glorious word.
00:50:35Faith of our father's holy faith, we will be true to thee till death.
00:50:44Our father's shape is in prison start.
00:50:49Faith of our father's holy faith, we will be true to thee till death.
00:51:11We will be true to thee till death.
00:51:16We'll not change us! Do you hear me?
00:51:18We are going to fight you.
00:51:48Morning, Father. Morning.
00:51:50Come on and we'll put a bit of breakfast in here.
00:51:52Father Abbott was supposed to meet me here this morning.
00:51:54Ah, yes. Well, he's been a bit delayed, you see.
00:51:57Well, you know, there's a storm coming up.
00:51:59I'll have to make a decision about the helicopter.
00:52:01Yes, that's right. Well, he knows all about that.
00:52:09Come in.
00:52:11Ah, good day.
00:52:12Good day.
00:52:13Morning.
00:52:14One egg or two.
00:52:15Oh, one's fine.
00:52:17It's that you don't hear, no.
00:52:18And, Brother Plath, get some bread in general.
00:52:20For the business.
00:52:21Oh, no, no, no, no.
00:52:22Don't bother. I'm all right.
00:52:23I wish you'd try to find Father Abbott for me.
00:52:25Wait. Ah, yes.
00:52:26Well, I'll leave you to your breakfast, so...
00:52:44There you are now.
00:52:45Oh.
00:52:46I hope you enjoy that.
00:52:47I'm sure.
00:52:56I hope that egg is fresh.
00:52:58There are old hens here that have not been laying well lately.
00:53:01Father Abbott.
00:53:03Brother Pius, if you please, get back to your work.
00:53:06I am working.
00:53:07There's a great curiosity here.
00:53:08The wolves not only have ears, they have tongs as well.
00:53:10Well, uh, shall we go outside?
00:53:11I'll finish your breakfast.
00:53:12It's all right. I'm not hungry.
00:53:13You know about the storm.
00:53:14Oh, yeah.
00:53:15Yeah.
00:53:16You could be trapped here for days.
00:53:17A terrible fate for a go-getter like yourself.
00:53:19It's all right. I've ordered your helicopter. It'll be here within the hour.
00:53:22You ordered it.
00:53:23Brother Pius and Brother Malachi, who's in there with you?
00:53:26Nobody in trouble, Malachi!
00:53:27Well, get back to your work, then!
00:53:28They're like wireless sets all tuned in.
00:53:29Let's take a walk.
00:53:30Let's take a walk.
00:53:31It's all right.
00:53:32I've ordered your helicopter.
00:53:33It'll be here within the hour.
00:53:34You ordered it.
00:53:35Brother Pius and Brother Malachi, who's in there with you?
00:53:39Nobody in trouble, Malachi!
00:53:40Well, get back to your work, then!
00:53:45They're like wireless sets all tuned in.
00:53:48Let's take a walk.
00:54:00Don!
00:54:01There are sins of avoidance.
00:54:03Sins of omission.
00:54:04It turns really because of the matter of conscience to act.
00:54:07What about the sin of pride?
00:54:09Now, look.
00:54:11Our poverty, our chastity, our obedience.
00:54:16Three small gifts that we've offered God when we became monks of this order.
00:54:21And now you're going to ask God to give you back the last of these.
00:54:25But you're doing a holy work.
00:54:28Come in here in this helicopter.
00:54:32Telling us to stop.
00:54:34No.
00:54:35No, he must go down there.
00:54:37No, no, no.
00:54:38You know, I think that God sends down more trials than you than he does than the rest of us.
00:54:43Because he knows that you want to prove your love for him.
00:54:46But perhaps he's testing you now.
00:54:49Asking you to wait.
00:54:52I'm not being willful.
00:54:55But surely I must do what I know is right.
00:54:57Surely my conscience doesn't lie to me.
00:55:00And does your conscience tell you that you must break our law of obedience?
00:55:06Well, God doesn't make slaves of us.
00:55:11Every one of us has the right to choose.
00:55:14And if you're sure that it's his will that you go down there now and do whatever it is you're going to do,
00:55:20I certainly shan't stop you.
00:55:23Go on then.
00:55:25Go on.
00:55:26Go on.
00:55:44Here is a letter of apology to Father General.
00:55:47I have not sealed it.
00:55:48You may read it if you wish.
00:55:59But last night you said you felt you had no right to interfere with the beliefs of your congregation.
00:56:03I was in error.
00:56:05You promised to give up the Latin Mass at once, yet you give no reasons.
00:56:09And here's my letter of resignation.
00:56:12I've asked to be transferred to another monastery.
00:56:14Not as an abbot, but as an ordinary monk.
00:56:17But why?
00:56:18Is it because you're unwilling to carry out Father General's order?
00:56:21The order will be carried out at once.
00:56:24There will be no trouble.
00:56:26But what about the crowds on the mainland and the monks here?
00:56:29Of course there will be trouble.
00:56:30We do not say the Latin Mass on the mainland.
00:56:32The people cannot attend it.
00:56:33As for the monks, I am their abbot.
00:56:35They will do as I tell them.
00:56:37But why do you want to resign?
00:56:39Because I was wrong.
00:56:41I had no right to tamper with people's names.
00:56:56I think you're being too hard on yourself.
00:56:59Everybody makes mistakes and yours were made with the best of intentions.
00:57:03Intentions don't count.
00:57:04Actions do.
00:57:05Remember Martin Luther?
00:57:07Insubordination is the beginning of the breakdown of the church.
00:57:11And I have been insubordinate.
00:57:13I don't believe that, Father Abbott.
00:57:15I, um, overheard you lecture Father Matthew last night on the vow of obedience.
00:57:21Never spoken from the heart.
00:57:23Well, it's easy to lecture others.
00:57:26In my own case, I've gone against the orders of my superiors.
00:57:30But there's no need for you to resign.
00:57:32You're a holy man and a good man.
00:57:34And you need it here.
00:57:35Your duty is here as the abbot of Mork.
00:57:38No.
00:57:39I've come to the end of a long road.
00:57:41I disagree, Father Abbott.
00:57:42And as Father General's plenty potentiary, I order you to stay.
00:57:44You can tear this up.
00:57:46There's something I must explain to you.
00:57:50Your helicopter will be here in a few minutes.
00:57:52Let's go up and get your bag.
00:57:54We can talk on the way.
00:57:58I did not do this for holy reasons.
00:58:01I did it because I myself lack conviction.
00:58:05There's a file on me in Rome.
00:58:07There's a file about my visit to Lourdes.
00:58:08You've read it?
00:58:09Yes, I have.
00:58:10But it doesn't explain.
00:58:11I'll tell you now what happened.
00:58:13I went there with two priests.
00:58:15We were on our way to Rome and we stopped off to visit the shrine.
00:58:19A pious pilgrimage.
00:58:21The shrine of Our Lady at Lourdes in France.
00:58:24The place where the Virgin Mary was supposed to appear before an ignorant peasant girl.
00:58:28A place where people come from all over the world because they believe that God's mother will ask her son to cure them.
00:58:36I'm sorry.
00:58:37Those poor sick people.
00:58:40Blind children.
00:58:41Men without arms or legs.
00:58:43Dying women on stretchers.
00:58:45Every deformity.
00:58:46Every mortal ill.
00:58:49And all of them praying for a miracle.
00:58:52Spending their life savings to get there.
00:58:56Oh, it's a sad, dreadful sight.
00:59:00I've stood at the shrine, Father, and something came over me.
00:59:06I went back to the hotel and shut myself up and knelt down and tried to pray.
00:59:15I tried to pray.
00:59:20It's not the first time I've had this trouble.
00:59:24Even before Lourdes.
00:59:26Sometimes here on the island I've gone to church and started to say the Our Father.
00:59:31Our Father who art in heaven.
00:59:34But then I looked at the altar and I know that there is no Father in heaven.
00:59:39That's a pitiful thought, don't you think?
00:59:42A man who became a monk with most of his life gone.
00:59:47Kneeling in church and staring at the altar and knowing that there is nothing on the altar but wafels of communion bread.
00:59:57Not God.
01:00:00Just pieces of bread.
01:00:03And when that would happen, when the words were just words, I'd begin to tremble and shake as a prelude to hell.
01:00:14I suppose you'd call it a depression.
01:00:15I'd call it hell.
01:00:16An empty state.
01:00:18The hell of a priest deprived of God.
01:00:21And when I get into that state, it's, oh, it's weeks, it's months.
01:00:25And I never know when I'm going to come out again.
01:00:28After Lourdes, it was nearly a year.
01:00:30So now I'm afraid to pray.
01:00:34You see, I don't know if I'll come out again.
01:00:40You, uh, don't pray? Ever?
01:00:49No, not for a long time.
01:00:53Not for years.
01:00:55Oh, what about saying mass or your daily office?
01:00:59There's no one noticed?
01:01:01It's strange, but they don't.
01:01:03One can pretend a preference for private devotion.
01:01:06But public prayers, well, there are plenty of monks who'll lead them.
01:01:10Then why have you stayed?
01:01:12It's a hard life.
01:01:13You said so yourself.
01:01:15But it's my life.
01:01:18I'm a sort of foreman here, a sort of manager.
01:01:21It's not far different from a secular job.
01:01:25The monks work hard.
01:01:27I'm here to keep it together.
01:01:29See, they make a go of it.
01:01:31We're like children.
01:01:33It's a simple life.
01:01:35We pass the days as if there was an endless supply of them.
01:01:41So, you see,
01:01:43you didn't know what sort of a man you were asking to stay on his habit.
01:01:59You'd travel light.
01:02:16It's the best way.
01:02:18Let's go down to the field.
01:02:20I want to get you off before I face up to them.
01:02:29You're expecting trouble?
01:02:41No.
01:02:42The thing about being in charge is to be firm.
01:02:46Like Father General.
01:02:48And yourself.
01:02:49By the way,
01:02:50what shall I say when the press and television people come around?
01:02:53You can refer all inquiries to me in Rome.
01:02:55All right, we'll do that.
01:03:23Let me deal with them.
01:03:25Won't you say anything?
01:03:26Let me deal with them.
01:03:27Won't you say anything?
01:03:29Let me deal with them.
01:03:31Won't you say anything?
01:03:49Let me deal with them.
01:03:51Won't you say anything?
01:03:59Have you worked for us now, Father Abbott?
01:04:07Are the horses brought up from the lower field?
01:04:10They are.
01:04:11May I ask our visitor just one question?
01:04:14You may not.
01:04:16Let us pass.
01:04:29There is a holy man, but he's also very tiresome.
01:04:40There are those that can cause trouble,
01:04:43but there are also those who are troubled.
01:04:55Father Katsala!
01:04:59You have both letters, Father?
01:05:03When will you let me know of my replacement?
01:05:29So be it.
01:05:35Safe home, Father.
01:05:36Safe journey.
01:05:38Thank you, Father.
01:05:54We must change!
01:05:55You hear me?
01:05:59You hear me?
01:06:01Uh...
01:06:02Huh?
01:06:03Sure.
01:06:04You hear me?
01:06:05See you later.
01:06:06League?
01:06:07See you later!
01:06:08This have been aegan-grey well
01:06:16Forest Business San Jose.
01:06:18Nature's Planet.
01:06:19THE END
01:06:49Father Abbott.
01:07:02Yes, Walter.
01:07:04Can you tell us now?
01:07:05The visitor is gone.
01:07:07Our visitor is gone.
01:07:09I am ashamed of you.
01:07:11Are we religious men or are we hooligans?
01:07:15I'm sorry, Father Abbott.
01:07:17I think we're all sorry.
01:07:18But can you tell us now what's going to happen?
01:07:22Yes, I can't tell you now.
01:07:24We have had orders from Father General in Rome.
01:07:28From now on, the Mass will be said in English in the new manner, the authors facing the congregation.
01:07:34I have written to Father General telling him we will do as he says.
01:07:39That is all.
01:07:40That is all?
01:07:41We have had our orders.
01:07:45It is up to all of us to carry them out to the best of our ability, isn't it?
01:07:50I'm sure we will do that, will we not?
01:07:53And the first thing we'll do is all of us get straight back to work now.
01:07:57And that is not the half of it, Father Abbott.
01:08:01Why have you not told the community what you told me last night?
01:08:04Last night I told you to go to bed.
01:08:06Now I tell you to go to work.
01:08:08You also told me we are no longer instructed to believe in the miracle of the Mass.
01:08:12That is so.
01:08:13Then how can a thing be a miracle one day and not a miracle the next day?
01:08:18I don't know.
01:08:19Maybe you are a greater theologian than the Pope or the Vatican Council, Father Matthew.
01:08:24I am not.
01:08:25I am a monk.
01:08:26And I do as I am bid.
01:08:28No.
01:08:29No, no.
01:08:30Oh, Donald.
01:08:31It's blasphemy.
01:08:32No, no, no.
01:08:32Donald, no.
01:08:33You're not well.
01:08:33You're not just your sister.
01:08:34It's blasphemy to come here.
01:08:35I don't know.
01:08:35Now take control of yourself.
01:08:36Now all of you get back to work now.
01:08:38No, wait, wait.
01:08:39I will not be put off.
01:08:39It will not be ordered to believe something which I do not believe.
01:08:43No one can order a belief.
01:08:45It is a gift from God.
01:08:46Lord, what he's proposing is a denial of everything the Mass stands for.
01:08:50Please.
01:08:54Let us go into the church.
01:09:09Let us go into the church.
01:09:28Let's go into the church.
01:09:59A miracle is when God comes here into this church among us.
01:10:08But you said the opposite.
01:10:10You said the sacrifice of the mass is just ritual.
01:10:12That the bread and wine remain bread and wine.
01:10:14That there are no miracles.
01:10:20Yes.
01:10:22Prayer is the only miracle.
01:10:26We try to pray.
01:10:29If our words become prayer,
01:10:33God will come.
01:10:40Let us pray.
01:10:41Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
01:10:58Thy kingdom come.
01:11:01Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
01:11:09Give us this day our daily bread.
01:11:13And forgive us our trespasses.
01:11:16As we forgive those who trespass against us.
01:11:20And lead us not into temptation.
01:11:24And deliver us from evil.
01:11:27Amen.
01:11:28Amen.
01:11:28Amen.
01:11:29Amen.
01:11:30Amen.
01:11:31Amen.
01:11:32Amen.
01:11:33Amen.
01:11:34Amen.
01:11:35Amen.
01:11:36Amen.
01:11:37Amen.
01:11:38Amen.
01:11:39Amen.
01:11:40Amen.
01:11:41Amen.
01:11:42Amen.
01:11:43Amen.
01:11:44Amen.
01:11:45Amen.
01:11:46Amen.
01:11:47Amen.
01:11:48Amen.
01:11:49Amen.
01:11:50Amen.
01:11:51Amen.
01:11:52Amen.
01:11:53Amen.
01:11:54Amen.
01:11:55Amen.
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