“Lord…I’d hoped I’d have the courage to know what I should do. You must see how sick at heart I’ve been, and how I’ve performed this thing with little appetite….I’d hoped you’d reveal to me along the way why you put such a rage in my heart! [Pause] Tell me what to do now! [Pause, softer] Please. God, tell me what to do.”
Thursday, 29 March 2007
Movie Prayers: A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Movie Prayers: The End of the Affair (1999)
Sunday, 25 March 2007
Call For Papers: Faith and Spirituality in World Cinema
CFP--Faith and Spirituality in World Cinema (
--Michelangelo Antonioni
--Ingmar Bergman
--Robert Bresson
--Luis Buñuel
--Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
--Carl Theodor Dreyer
--Krzysztof Kieslowski
--Akira Kurosawa
--Yasujiro Ozu
--Roberto Rossellini
--Andrei Tarkovsky.
Essays should demonstrate a familiarity with the reception history or critical dialogue surrounding the director(s) or film(s) being discussed, but they should avoid being openly derivative.
The deadline for proposals is
Electronic submissions are welcome.
Please direct proposals, submissions, or questions to:
Kenneth R. Morefield
Department of English
Friday, 23 March 2007
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Saturday, 24 February 2007
Movie Prayers: Offret (The Sacrifice)
Our Father, who art in Heaven...
hallowed by thy name...
Thy Kingdom come..
Thy will be done...
Give us this day our daily bread...
And deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the Kingdom...
and the Power...
and the Glory.
Amen.
Lord!
Deliver us in this terrible time.
Don't let my children die,
nor my friends...
my wife...
Victor...
All those who love Thee and believe in Thee...
All those who do not believe in Thee, because they are blind...
those who haven't given Thee a thought...
simply because they haven't yet been truly miserable.
All those who in this hour have lost their hope, their future...
their lives...
and the opportunity to surrender to Thy will.
All those who are filled with dread
who feel the End coming closer...
who fear, not for themselves, but for their loved ones.
All those whom no one,
except Thou, can offer protection.
Because this war is the ultimate war
a horrible thing.
And after it, there will be no victors and no vanquished...
no cities or towns, grass or trees,
water in the wells,
or birds in the sky.
I will give Thee all I have.
I'll give up my family, whom I love.
I'll destroy my home,
and give up Little Man.
I'll be mute, and never speak another word to anyone.
I will relinquish everything that binds me to life...
if only Thou dost restore everything as it was before...
as it was this morning and yesterday
Just let me be rid of
this deadly...
sickening, animal fear!
Yes, everything!
Lord!
Help me...
I will do everything I have promised Thee.
Movie Prayers: Les Anges du Peche
"Let me talk to you directly. Your saints will understand why. Look at me...listen to me! Take my anguish away from me. Tell me the burden you loaded me with by letting me know a desperate soul's secret is a test which will breed my purest joy. Protect me with your Hand. Deliver us from evil..."
"You who never sleep...you watch over me. Thank you for receiving me every night. They have filled the gap with thorns. For them, I'm a prowler...stealing bits of eternal peace. For you, I remain your child. Every night I leave my barn to come to you and [???] a world-wide audience. You are not a S[???] yet you desired to stay with us as long as possible like a sample human being...a simple brother. That is why I dare offer you...my miserable complaint before my prayers. Help me, my grief is too deep! And Teresa, Teresa who you entrusted to me...let me recognize her voice in that hymn...which I have no longer the right to sing. "[Faints]