Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Thank you Fr. Willy for these wonderful quotes

From Frank Capra's Autobiography: Frank Capra: the Name Above the Title

"It may happen to you only once in a hundred Masses - but it will happen. You walk back from communion with the Host on your tongue - a nobody. You kneel, drop your head in your hands. Slowly the wonder of it fills you with joy - the dissolving Host in your mouth is the Living Christ! The priest, the church, all the bowed heads around you, disappear. You hear nothing, see nothing, feel nothing. Your mind empties itself of all thought, your body of all substance. You are a spirit suffused in a glorious light. And out of its glory a word infuses your spirit: 'Courage!' You have glimpsed the Eternal. The Light fades. Thoughts re-form in your mind; substance returns to your body; bowed heads around you materialize. You hear the priest say, 'Go, the Mass is ended.' You leave filled with the urge to shout it to the whole world - 'Courage! Courage!'"

And from Myles Connolly, filmmaker and author, in his prescient 1928 novel Mr. Blue

"If you want to reach the masses you can reach them through pictures. These new children can be bent and molded as they sit in the dark enrapt before the magic of the mobile screen. There, in the dark, they can be lifted out of their daily servitude. There, they can be raised above their stone-and-steel environment. There, they can be brought to the high places and shown the deeps beyond the hard horizon.... Here is a destiny for an art second to none in history. For it is given to the motion picture to save the soul of a civilization."