

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. In a recent interview with Fox Nation, Jim. 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. The actor portraying Jesus in the independent film Passion of the Christ said injuries he suffered during production made the movie 'beautiful.'. His depictions of Jesus’ suffering and death were Jim Caviezel portrayed Jesus in Mel Gibson’s movie, The
