Fi News #73 – Duns Scoto, trailer of the dramatic film of the life of Bl. John Duns Scotus (14min) >>> Play
Ave Maria!
The FIs in Italy have finished their first trailer for the feature length film Duns Scoto on the life of Blessed John Duns Scotus that we mentioned in an earlier post. It is more of a behind-the-scenes view of the making of the movie. All the actual footage of the movie is raw with the time stamp running. But it powerfully shows the magnitude of the project and how beautiful and dramatic the finished edition will be. Yes, it is in Italian. We hope to get an English subtitled version out soon. Enjoy!
St. Charles’ Square was the setting for Benedict XVI’s meeting with young people in Turin, his first apostolic trip in Italy in 2010. The enthusiasm and joy of the thousands of young people welcomed the Pope, who spoke of happiness and the fullness of life, which is achieved by radical and definitive choices that are lived with fidelity.
Roving Reporter #108 – An Italian family goes to visit the home of their Mother (11min) >>> Play
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Would you like to see to house in which Our Lady lived? One of our friars in Italy had the opportunity to take a pilgrimage to the Holy House of Loreto, and this is the first of 2 videos which recount the journey and tell the story of this extraordinary shrine. (Note: A view of the house is yet to come! Say a prayer that the Capuchins let me into the Basilica with a video camera!)
Roving Reporter #107 – Renaissance Art at its best at Bosco ai Frati (05 min) >>> Play
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Recently, Friar Terrance had the privilege of visiting the ancient Franciscan convent of Bosco ai Frati (which literally translates as “the wood(s) of the friars”), located in the central part of Italy. The history of the convent is fascinating and very rich, as are the treasures contained within its walls, and we hope you’ll enjoy this brief but interesting video of a famous convent which the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate currently occupy.
The Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate are producing a feature length dramatic film on the life of Blessed John Duns Scotus, the Franciscan who gave the theological explanation for the Immaculate Conception. The film is called “Duns Scoto”, Italian for Duns Scotus, and is written and directed by Fernando Muraca based on the book by Fr. Stefano Maria Manelli, “Beato Giovanni Duns Scoto” published by the FIs in Italy. Adriano Braidotti plays Blessed John Duns Scotus and is supported by Raffaele Proietti, Sebastiano Colla, Alessandro Chini, Camilla Diana and Emanuele Maria Gamboni in the role of young Duns Scotus along with many others including not a few Franciscans of the Immaculate.
The only thing left to finish on the film is the sound track for which they are currently in negotiations. The film is due to premiere in May 2010 on DVD and in some theaters as was done with the highly successful pro-life film “Bella” and negotiations are underway for putting it on Italian TV and entering it in film festivals. It will be in Italian, but there may be an English version. We will be posting the trailer on AirMaria when it becomes available toward the end of April. So practice your Italian and stay tuned.
On the site of the filming with camera dolly on tracks, microphone boom, and high definition cameras. The high tech equipment makes a sharp contrast with the medieval monastery and period costumes. The director of photography was Massimo Lupi, famous for his creative cinematography in the Italian TV series Il Commissario Rex (Inspector Rex) about the adventures of Rex the police dog.
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The Abbey at Montelabate in Perugia where parts of the movie was filmed. Other locations were a nearby estate and also on the coast near Anconia.
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Adriano Braidotti as John Duns Scotus who is here praying for guidance from Mary as he is about to defend her prerogative of being immaculately conceived. There are two goals of the film. One is to spread knowledge about Duns Scotus in view of his canonization, and then eventually to him being declared a Doctor of of the Church. The other is to help Christianize our important mass media culture that has sadly become so secular and even dehumanized.
Ave Maria! This is Part Two that continues from yesterday’s post on the FI’s in Italy and their “Field School” that they hold each year with youth in the majestic Italian Alps.
Ave Maria! This one is by the FI’s in Italy about their “Field School” that they hold each year with youth in the majestic Italian Alps. The beautiful footage is set to music with Italian titles. Perhaps we will come up with a version with English titles, but really, the imagery says it all. Part 2 will be tomorrow.
Immaculate Music #29 – A Beautiful Sung Version of the Creed (10min) >>> Play
Ave Maria!
On January 6th, 2010, the Franciscan Friars in Italy had the privilege of celebrating the Traditional Mass with Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, President Emeritus of Ecclesia Dei. We hope you enjoy viewing some of the scenes from the Mass and listening to the Creed which was sung during the Mass and directed by Alessandro Pucci and Andrea Ferranti. The name of the chorus (in Italian) is the “Schola Cantorum ‘Santa Cecilia’ di Corridonia e Coro di Cloumurano”.
Friar Terrance sends ‘Ave Maria!’s and prayers to all.
Homily #100111 (03min) Play – St Thomas of Cori was a Franciscan priest who lived in Italy in the 1700′s exemplifying the holy, humble life.
Ave Maria! St Thomas of Cori, Confessor – Mass: EF, Common of a Confessor not a Bishop I, Os Iusti – Readings: 1st: sir 31:8-11 – Gsp: luk 12:35-40
Roving Reporter #87 – Friar Terrance visits Friar Anthony and Friar Josemaria (10min) >>> Play
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Friar Terrance goes “on assignment” (from his Mother) to Italy in preparation for philosophy and theology studies. Before reaching his destiny at Campocavallo, Italy – a stones’ throw away from the House of Loreto – he had a chance to sit down with Friar Anthony Servium and Friar Josemaria who are beginning philosophy studies at Villa Santa Lucia. What have these two friars been doing since their departure from the states, and what’s it like in the place that they’re now in? Listen now and here about their adventures and also what priestly formation is like as a Franciscan Friar of the Immaculate. (We hope you enjoy the scenes from Southern Italy.)
Homily #090427 (08min) Play – Today is the feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel which is very dear to us here at the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate because it was in the shrine to Our Lady of Good Counsel in Frigento, Italy that our order was started by Fr. Stefano Manelli and Fr. Gabriele Pellettieri. Listen as Fr. Angelo explains how this happened under the wise council of Our Lady.
Well, we had a big day in Tarquinia, Italy on Wednesday with the ordinations of five Franciscans of the Immaculate to the Priesthood by Bishop Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, celebrated in the Extraordinary Form (Traditional Latin Mass). Congratulations to the ordinandi:
Bishop Burke, Fr. Stefano, FI Founder and the five ordinandi. From left to right Fr. Giovanni Paolo Da Silva (Brazilian), Fr. Andre Maria Fernandes Gomes (Brazilian), Bishop Raymond Burke (Ordinator), Fr. Cayetano Maria Sulit (Philippines), Fr. John Lawrence Mary Polis (USA), Fr. Timeteo Maria De Iuliis (Italian), Fr. Stefano Manelli. (Photo from our Benin web site www.mediatrice.net)
The Franciscans of the Immaculate were featured on New Liturgical Movement today with the Traditional Requiem Mass celebrated on the anniversary of the death of Fr. Francis Maria Pompa, FI on January 24 who was a big advocate for the Extraordinary Form of the Mass in Italy. It was celebrated by our founder Fr. Stefano Manelli. Also the MC is none other than Fra Anthony Maria Servium who just departed last fall to Italy from the friary here in Griswold, CT, USA. He was instrumental in starting the extraordinary form of the Mass here in the United States. He is the MC in the video Sandals and Fiddlebacks. The full video of the mass in Italy can be seen on our scheduled video streaming site in Italy, TV Dell’Immacolata at 6-7:20pm for the next few days, at least if I’ve understood their schedule correctly.
Rinascimento Sacro shares some very edifying photos from a recent requiem Mass offered on January 24th at the Monastery of Murate in Città di Castello by the Franciscans of the Immaculate for the anniversary of the death of one of their friars.
The Franciscans of the Immaculate — founded by Pontifical Right by Pope John Paul II from what I can see — are not an order I have followed a great deal to date, but they would seem to be a group to keep more of a watch upon.
FI News #34 – Italian vocation video of the Poor Clares of the Immaculate (5min) >>> Play
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Here’s a video in Italian. It is a vocation video for the Clarisse dell’Immacolata (Poor Clares of the Immaculate) which is another order started by our founder Fr. Stefano Manelli. It is an order of Poor Clares that follows the Traccia with the Marian vow as do the Franciscans of the Immaculate. Currently they have four convents, all in Italy and have about sixty sisters and are fully contemplative as opposed to the FI sisters who are both active and contemplative. This slide-show video features their convent in Pastena in Lazio. We will probably make an English version of this but we thought we should just get this Italian version up straight away to add a little foreign language flair on AirMaria and to give some exposure to this blessed community.
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