00:00Hey, Shabbat Shalom, brothers and sisters. Welcome back. I thank you again for joining me today.
00:06Well, today I want to talk about somebody and I just come up and name come up while I was
00:14doing a book review,
00:16reading a book, doing whatever. And anyways, this is about a lady named Anne Catherine Emmerich.
00:25I never heard of her, but it's the weirdest thing. I never heard of her or I just blocked it
00:34out of my head.
00:35But anyways, I got this out of the Passion of Christ by Dr. Sam, which I'm going to do a
00:47book review on.
00:49And anyways, when I was reading through this just the other day, I got a quote from this book.
00:58I mean, I looked on the Internet after I saw this, did some studies and listened about it, but I
01:07didn't remember.
01:09But anyways, I just think I want to talk about the history of her, who she was, what she was,
01:17because she was an important character in Mel Gibson's 2004 movie, The Passion of Christ.
01:25Not just the Bible, just her visions and everything.
01:29So I just want to read this and hope it does justice.
01:34Feel free to get online or whatever, check her out.
01:38But anyways, let me read this.
01:41It's an introduction to Anne Catherine Emmerich.
01:45And this is what Dr. Sam says anyways.
01:51Anne Catherine Emmerich was born in Flansky, West Fiali, on September 8, 1774.
02:05At the age of 29, she became an Augustine nun at the convent of Augustburn in Dolman.
02:18Dolman, yeah.
02:20She was frail, suffering from many mysterious physical ailments.
02:25Her supporters claim that she had the stigmata.
02:30Well, stigmata, of course, means some people have wounds on their hands or even on the sides.
02:38You know, that represent, you know, what the Messiah Yeshua had when he was crucified, impaled, whatever.
02:46But anyways, the wounds of the hands, feet, and breasts that Christ suffered.
02:53Okay, supposedly, she bled profusely on Good Sunday and other holy days, which makes me wonder what holy days.
03:04The Catholic holy days, which would say the unholy days, or the holy days which, you know, Yeshua followed, which
03:12was, you know, Passover, Feast of Time, Nagels, and so on.
03:16Okay, for Catholics, the stigmata, bleeding hands are ultimate proof of sainthood because the focus of their devotion is on
03:29imitating the suffering of Yeshua.
03:34Any Catholic with hands having the wounds of Christ becomes, as it were, a little Christ.
03:43Emmerich is called Venerable, a title given by the Catholic Church to holy men and women considered for sainthood.
03:53In fact, on October 3rd, 2004, Pope John Paul II beautified Anne Emmerich.
04:04Beautification is the last formal step in the Catholic Church before sainthood.
04:12Emmerich is remembered for her mystical visions of Jesus and Mary,
04:19visions which recorded after her death.
04:24She attracted many followers who sought her advice and healing.
04:30As her visions became known, Catholic Church officials arranged in 1818 for Clemens Britanno to go to Dolman to record
04:43her visions.
04:44She remained, he remained, he remained with Emmerich until her death on February 9th, 1824.
04:54About a year before her death, Emmerich claimed to have received 66 visions concerning the horrible sufferings of our Lord.
05:04The visions cover the last supper, the agony on Gethsemane, the arrest, the trial, the scourging, the carrying of the
05:15cross, the crucifixion, and the resurrection.
05:19They provide an incredible, detailed, and gory description of the last hours of Christ's life.
05:27Uh, the intense drama of her visions explains their appeal to a filmmaker like Gibson.
05:37Okay, while the Gospels, while the Gospels devote relatively little space to Jesus' last hours,
05:48uh, the delirious passions, uh, described in painstaking detail many non-biblical scenes and events.
05:57For example, Mary, the mother of Jesus, is present, is, uh, present every step of the way from Gethsemane to
06:06Golgotha,
06:07uh, lending vital support to her son throughout his trial, scourging, and execution.
06:14Uh, Brentino did not transcribe directly all that Emmerich declared to have seen in the vision
06:22because it was seldom that he could, uh, so much, uh, even take notes of her presence.
06:31Wow.
06:32In 1833, nine years after Emmerich's death, uh, Brentino published his edition of the Delorius, uh, Passion, uh, in German.
06:45Uh, excuse me, my nose stuffed up a little bit.
06:48Uh, what he published is not a verbatim, uh, transcription of what Emmerich said,
06:55but what he remembered from the notes he had taken years before.
07:00Wow.
07:01Uh, it is important to note that Emmerich did not attach historical significance to her visions.
07:07Her editor, Clemence, uh, Bertino, uh, explicitly states, quote,
07:13Unquote, it is our duty here plainly to affirm that they, her visions,
07:19have no pretensions whatsoever to be regarded as history.
07:24To these meditations, she herself never attached more than mere human value, unquote.
07:32Unquote, the same point is made in the short biography attached to the, uh,
07:40Delorius, uh, Passion, where we are told,
07:44quote,
07:45She never considered her visions to have any reference to her exterior Christian life,
07:51nor did she, uh, regard them as being any historical value, unquote.
07:56The fact that Emmerich did not consider her visions of any historical value
08:03did not deter Mel Gibson from using them as a faithful expansion of the gospel narratives.
08:12Thus, Mr. Gibson can hardly blame Emmerich for the biblical and historical inaccuracies found in his movie,
08:22since she never claimed biblical or historical accuracy.
08:27So, you got it right there.
08:30Um, you know, I'm sorry that I didn't write down, you know,
08:35you know, she had kids or anything like that or whatever, but,
08:40you know, like, look up Wikipedia.
08:42I did look up, you know, her on Wikipedia and other, other places, of course,
08:46but, uh, I just thought that was sound and fitting for the subject at hand.
08:52And if you want to look her up, you know, she's on YouTube, Wikipedia,
08:56everywhere else.
08:57But, anyways, Mel Gibson turned to, you know, the writings of a mystic
09:04to, uh, help his movie out.
09:07You know, I love Mel Gibson.
09:08Don't get me wrong.
09:09He made some great action movies and not just action movies.
09:13He's a serious actor.
09:13He played romantic movies, comedy, things like that.
09:17So, I'm not taking nothing away from him.
09:20But, you know, and the passion, the passion of Christ,
09:23the movie come out in 2014 or 2004.
09:26I mean, I went and saw it and everything.
09:29And I was like, wow, this is about, I was young.
09:33That was like 20, what, 22 years ago or something like that.
09:38And it's like, wow.
09:39And then, all of a sudden, while I'm doing my studies, my book, my Bible studies,
09:44everything, I come across, uh, Dr. Sam here.
09:48I got Dr. Sam here.
09:50And, uh, anyways, I started reading that.
09:54But everything started progressing with not just the Seventh Day Adventist things.
09:59I just started going to Seventh Day Church of God.
10:01I was checking out all this other stuff.
10:04I started evolving.
10:06So, and I do appreciate, you know, my past.
10:10I've journaled everything since 1998, I think it was.
10:15Yeah, 1998 is my first journal and everything.
10:18And, uh, I'm just, I'm just blessed.
10:22But anyways, I just want to let you guys know, you know, I got, I got that book.
10:31I forgot I had it and everything.
10:33And I just wanted to, you know, do a fast commentary on this mystic.
10:41Like, I, you know, I could have done better.
10:43I could have, like, Wikipedia studied, but her birth, who she's married to, all kinds of things.
10:51But I just decided to share it this way.
10:54That's all.
10:55But anyways, this is all I've got to say right now.
10:57And I do thank you for tolerating me and everything.
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11:31And until we meet again, brothers and sisters, peace out and shalom.
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