Kathy Shaidle posts on the story of the nun protesting the filming of the DaVinci Code with the laugh-out-loud post title None dare call it "simony"
"And despite the dean of Lincoln Cathedral branding the book ‘a load of old tosh’ he has agreed to let the movie be filmed there. He and the church authorities said yes after the producers donated £100,000 to the coffers."
Sounds about right. Adjusting for inflation 30 pieces of silver could be in the neighborhood of £100,000.
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“We are not often given an opportunity to enter such an arena, and this was an opportunity we needed to take in order to preach the Gospel.”
So said the Very Reverend Dean.
I don’t know whether these are Catholic priests and bishops but given the context, with sister and all, I presume they are.
That said, I don’t see this as an opportunity to preach the Gospel. If anything he is selling his ecclesiastical charge as a venue for giving new life to an ancient heresy.
Brown and Hanks are NOT preaching the Gospel, and I don’t think the Very Reverend Dean has been given any further opportunity to do so himself! Is he going to walk into the middle of the filming (like that unfortunate documentarist in Monty Python’s Search for the Holy Grail) and re-assure the faithful that the movie is indeed a load of old tosh”?
Me thinketh Dean speaketh out of both ends.
Someone at Amy Welborn’s said it was an Anglican cathedral.
Lincoln Cathedral is Anglican. The nun is Catholic and felt it was her duty to protest even though it was outside an Anglican church. Good for her! 🙂
I wish there more Catholics, not just Religious, but lay leaders, media types etc. who had her courage.
I agree with you, Jonathan. I am truly up to here (above eyebrows) with this whole Da Vinci Code nonsense. For starters, I get more and more annoyed when folks present a contemporary mentality (such as a Renaissance painter having enough time in his fresco painting day to wend in secret codes) as serious thought for discussion. The day-to-day struggle of just avoiding the plague (Michaelangelo had to flee Rome a time or two because of it), getting your fair share of florins from the Medici family for your commission and tooth decay were more along the lines of the type of things Da Vinci had to deal with.
You don’t have to go back much more than 50 years to know that most people had shear survival on their minds.
Is Westminster Abbey Anglican or Catholic? Ron Howard was refused the use of Westminster, which is why he went to Lincoln. Forgive my ignorance of the partitioning of Churches in England.
I have to wonder if they are going to include, at the end of the movie atleast, the true facts about this whole farce. Like that the guy trying to convince everyone that the Priory of Scion was just trying get everyone to believe he was royalty. He never intended to suggest he was a decsendant of Jesus. Or that the other 2 that were involved were convicted of fraud. Then theres the nasty little fact that the dossiers are 19th century fakes. When it comes to the code there is no there there.
Ohh and Da Vinci himself. The The painting of the last supper-the androgenous looking thing is meant to be John(?) And the reason he looks like that is because Da Vinci himself prefered young affeminite men, and the only young man in the group was John. He would have had Jesus and Mr androgeny leaning away from each other because it would have seriously disturbed his psychological mind to have something he fancied himself with leaning towards another powerful man. Now Im fairly new to the faith, but not so new to homosexuality, so dont light me a fire if I got the name wrong but… John was said to have been favored by Christ right? This was just Da Vincis way of denying that. His other religous painting bear out his passion for girly looking young men-and yes I have a book of them. He painted what he fancied because to him it would have been almost holy. Holier than the church he hated even. Thats right just plain old fashioned homosexual self worship. Not a woman at all.
As for the nun. Go her. I met a nun by the name of Sister Mary Bethany(please whisper a prayer for her now and again) the Wensday(at a service where they bless the water and oil and the priest renew thier vows, The Chrism mass(?)) before I was baptized. She was actually brought over to me by another young novice because I was explaining my story of coming from a bi-sexual mother and that I was raised a pagan. Well not only were they, those I was telling, sweeter than honey to me they went and Got her. She was raised an athiest and her mother, like my own, was unhappy with her decision. It was such a pleasure to not be alone that night. And I felt soo alone until I met her. These woman are truly the sweetest gift to those of us who are married and raising children. She took the names in my family down and promised to pray for us. They fill in prayers where we miss them. Thats what this nun is doing. She is filling in for those of us who cant be there. Ill be sure to include her in my prayers.
It occurs to me that an even better post title would be:
NUN DARES CALL IT “SIMONY”
I’m getting a bit slow in my old age.
Westminster Abbey is Anglican. Westminster Cathedral is Catholic.
Both Westminster Abbey and Lincoln Cathedral are Anglican. But they used to be Catholic until Henry VIII stole them.
Mat Chpt 21 vs 12
Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those engaged in selling and buying there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.
Mark Chpt 11 vs 15
They came to Jerusalem, and on entering the temple area he began to drive out those selling and buying there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.
The Little Nun Sister Mary Michael, is protesting
at the blasphemy. Obviously the stolen church in Lincon does not now hold the “True presence” since it’s desecration by Henry VII.
Intrestingly this is not mentioned on their website’s history section.
A big question to ask does the current head of the Anglican church, Queen Elizabeth II have anything to say about it all ?
Unlikley, since she signed the 1968 abortion act into law, which has resulted in millions of murders of the innocents.
She, who I prefer to call “Betty butcher”, leads a hertical, unchristian, satanic cult.
I am shocked by Mark’s comment- is he still living in the Middle Ages? Perhaps he’d like all us protestants burnt at the stake! Christ prayed that we ‘would all be one as He and the Father are one’. That means Christian unity! We have sinister forces trying to take over our countries and the world – we need to be united in CHrist in order to overcome the enemy. But re the Dean of Lincoln many of us are horrified and do admire the RC nun who prayed and protested. Unfortunately the CHurch of England has many unbelieving, wishy-washy, liberal and/or pluralistic Bishops who should in my opinion resign. i agree about the 30 pieces of silver – wish I’d thought of that in the letter I’ve written to the Dean and Bishop! I did point out though that if he was selling his soul to the Devil �100,000 wasn’t much to get – he could surely have got much more!