What I give back to God from what he has given me.he just multiplies it and blesses it in ways that I never thought possible.'Ĭaviezel added that he also has 'a great devotion to the patron saint of actors, Saint Genesius'. Everything that I do is always with heaven's help. He went on: 'I go to mass every day and the eucharist is Christ in me. 'He mentioned the Virgin Mary more than any other writer,' noted Caviezel. Caviezel plays Luke serving the early Christian community in Rome as a physician, spiritual leader and writer. In the film Luke is seen regularly visiting Paul in prison to document his story while composing Acts. How can this man be a light to the world? But it's often through our struggles, our trials, our tragedies that triumph comes.' 'Here is a beat-up old man in prison, facing execution. 'I thought that that was one of the greatest parts of the script,' Caviezel told the CNA. Jim Caviezel plays Luke in 'Paul, Apostle of Christ'. The actor told CNA that he relied on spiritual disciplines to portray holiness in the film, which premieres on March 23 and depicts the persecution of the early Christians in Rome under Emperor Nero, along with an imprisoned Saint Paul conveying a message of hope at the end of his life. In an interview with the Catholic News Agency (CNA) about the forthcoming movie, which is based on the Acts of the Apostles, Caviezel, who is a practising Catholic, added: 'Everything that I do is always with heaven's help.' You won’t see Jesus.The Christian movie star Jim Caviezel, who played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, has said that daily prayer, Bible reading and mass helped him to portray Luke in the forthcoming film Paul, the Apostle of Christ.
You watch it, it asks you a big question, ‘Hey, where are you going to go? WhatĬharacter are you playing in the Bible?'”Ĭommenting on the state of the movie industry, he said, Of The Passion of the Christ, he replied, “It’s a film that when
When Caviezel was asked to explain the enduring popularity This God invites us to experience his Good Friday grace and to share it with Pain and participates in the fullness of the human struggle.” God to be feared and avoided, a God of revenge, but a God who is moved by our The truly good news is that God is not a distant God, a Out of this divine solidarityĬomes new life. That God first wants to share that pain with us. Nouwen: “The mystery of God’s love is not that our pain is taken away, but Loved just as much today as on the first Good Friday is astounding (cf. Said: “Through a tree we were made debtors to God so through a tree weĬost of that cancelation is beyond our imagining. Speaking of the tree in the Garden of Eden and the tree on which Jesus died, the wind knocked out of you.” The cost and grace of the cross But it’s an extraordinary experience because I got hit and it froze my diaphragm, which was like getting. “I walked out of the take and I fell down. “I had a fourteen-inch gash right on my back,” he said. The scourging of Jesus by Roman soldiers, he was accidentally struck. The AC joint in his shoulder was also torn, so carrying theĬross was especially painful for him. Now, in the tape, you’ll see streams of blood coming down from my lip. it actually struck my head and buried my head in the sand. He told reporters, “As I went down, the cross. When he fell as Jesus did, the cross landed on top of him. The most realistic I have ever seen in a film.īut we didn’t know just how realistic they were until theĪctor gave an interview recently in which he described the injuries heĬaviezel carried a heavy wooden cross through the streets of Jerusalem’s Old City on his way to Calvary. His depictions of Jesus’ suffering and death were Jim Caviezel portrayed Jesus in Mel Gibson’s movie, The
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