The Catholic Weekly 17 May 2020

catholicweekly.com.au 20 17, May, 2020 ENTERTAINMENT ACROSS 1 Tightly hold a piece of jewellery (5) 4. Appropriate room used by the tailor (7) 8. Payment for the old boarding-house (7) 9. Bolt together (5) 10. See 14 Across 11. Downgrading of French movement (8) 13. See 14 Across 14, 13Ac & 10Ac. Don’t hurry to accept your sentence (4,4,4) 16 & 4Dn. Shocking rail arrange ments found in rural areas (8,6) 17 & 19Dn. Sole distributor will supply you with these (4-4) 20. Coming from the north, this can be penetrative (5) 21. One trip will upset the dog (7) 22. The first of the priests in unusually secret homage (7) 23. They need to be studied before bids are made (5) Quick Crossword answers also fit the large grid CROSSWORD DOWN 1. Splendid correspondence coming from London? (7,6) 2 Heavenly food returned to part of Indo-China (5) 3. Liquid container is washed out, we hear (4) 4. See 16 Across 5. Describing the consumer who has no spirit (8) 6. Practise hero-worship - so I lied dreadfully (7) 7. Lush lands of the psalmist (5,8) 12. Imprisonment eventually comes to a full stop (8) 13. Oppressive individuals taking in our confusion (7) 15. Tawdry metal container (3-3) 18. The Spanish put up the money - that’s admitted (3,2) 19. See 17 Across CRYPTIC CLUES QUICK CLUES SOLUTION FOR LAST WEEK ACROSS 1. Entity (5) 4. Maim (7) 8. Forbear (7) 9. Regional (5) 10. Paradise (4) 11. Theft (8) 13. Sour (4) 14. Hamper (4) 16. Norm (8) 17. Scheme (4) 20. Avoid (5) 21. Encase (7) 22. Dulcify (7) 23. Navy (5) DOWN 1. Innocence (13) 2. Emanate (5) 3. Seize (4) 4. Signify (6) 5. Word-division (8) 6. Support (7) 7. Illumination (13) 12. Slope (8) 13. Slander (7) 15. Gaol (6) 18. Agile (5) 19. Unhearing (4) 15,750 QUICK Across 3 Profusion; 8 Real; 9 Overpower; 10 Meagre; 11 Steer; 14 Terse; 15 Name; 16 Reads; 18 Void; 20 Cramp; 21 Teach; 24 Junior; 25 Indicator; 26 Just; 27 Testimony. Down 1 Primitive; 2 Maladroit; 4 Rave; 5 First; 6 Sloven; 7 Omen; 9 Order; 11 Slash; 12 Rapacious; 13 Desperate; 17 Scour; 19 Depict; 22 Claim; 23 Once; 24 Join. CRYPTIC Across 3 Qualified; 8 User; 9 Martinmas; 10 Strays; 11 Bowls; 14 Miser; 15 Echo; 16 Hence; 18 Item; 20 Leave; 21 Darts; 24 Combat; 25 Scarecrow; 26 Toil; 27 Beanstalk. Down 1 Nursemaid; 2 Depressed; 4 Upas; 5 Lotto; 6 Fondle; 7 Edam; 9 Myrrh; 11 Bonds; 12 Scrapbook; 13 Forestall; 17 Elbow; 19 Matron; 22 Tacit; 23 Ache; 24 Coil. SAINTS OF THEWEEK From an aristo Box office bomb grows into a You Tube hit IT ALL began with a box office bomb and a Christmas short. That’s what led Dallas Jenkins, a Bible-believing American evangelical, to create The Cho- sen — a projected eight-sea- son TV series on Jesus Christ. Though the first season was released a year ago, word is just now getting out, thanks in part to a “pay it forward” cam- paign making the show avail- able on YouTube. Although his father is fa- mous for fictionalising the fundamentalist interpretation of Revelation in the bestsell- ing Left Behind series, Jenkins isn’t uncomfortable reimag- ining the Gospels and doesn’t give us a rigid reading. Still, he sincerely intends The Chosen to be faithful to Scripture. The result is what the show’s Catholic consultant, Holy Cross Father David Guffey, described as an Igna- tian meditation on the Gos- pels. Jesus Is the Eternal Lord The Chosen gives us a soundly biblical Jesus in a profoundly biblical world. He’s cast not as an esoteric sage, self-help guru, hippy commune leader or political activist, but as the Lord who knows and possesses us ut- terly. This comes out powerfully in the first episode. It opens on a roughly 5-year-old St Mary Magdalene interrupt- ing her sickly father praying. He playfully points to the “big new star” and asks if the bright light woke her. She says she’s scared. “What do we do when we are scared,” he asks. “We say the words,” she replies, ready to recite Isaiah 43:1: Thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: ‘Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.’ Mary’s father repeats the phrase “you are mine” as she Erick Avari plays Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin PHOTO:THE CHOSEN /VIDANGEL STUDIOS THE CHOSEN Find the career you deserve catholicjobsonline.com.au SEE OUR LATEST JOBS Born to a Span- ish shepherd family, Paschal was said to have taught himself to read while tending sheep. At age 21 he joined an austere group of Franciscans, devoting himself to prayer and charity. He was sent on a dangerous mission to French Franciscans, and a shoulder wound he received caused him pain for the rest of his life. Long hours of prayer on his knees before the Eucharist earned this lay brother the honor of being patron of Catholic Eucharistic congresses. His emblem in art is a monstrance. Antonia was one of 11 children born to poor parents in Sardinia. She took Communion weekly, prayed the family rosary and helped her mother care for younger twins. By age 16, she was part of a Catholic Action group. One day, when she and a girl named Annette were gathering wood, she was attacked by a 20-year- old man. Annette ran for help, while the man repeatedly assaulted Antonia, finally killing her with stones. Her killer confessed and repented before his 1937 execution. S treaming Paschal Baylon 1540-1592 Feast: 17 May Blessed Antonia Messina 1919-1935 Feast: 17 May turns to gaze at the star. She then wakes up to a real-life nightmare 20 years later. She is a demon-possessed pros- titute who goes by the name “Lilith.” By the end of the episode, she comes close to jumping into the sea, only to drown herself in drink instead. Just when she is about to end her life, Jesus appears. As the demons shudder in- sider her, he calls her by her real name, cleverly bringing out that detail from the later Resurrection scene. He then exorcises the de- mons by pronouncing the same prophecy her father taught her. When he asserts “you are mine,” it’s clear he is more a king who repossesses her than a therapist sorting out her personal baggage. Thankfully, this scene isn’t at all romantic, even if full of love. Rather, Jesus has such command over the human soul because he is the Creator God. My favourite way Jesus’s divinity is revealed occurs in episode three when he asks a group of children to pray the Shema , a traditional Jewish prayer. As he’s listening, his expression changes and the frame switches to a wide shot overlooking the scene, sug- gesting God’s perspective. The audio of the children’s voices sounds faintly dou- bled, giving the impression he hears the prayer both as a human and as God. When the children come to the phrase “I am the Lord your God,” the camera zooms back on Jesus. Jesus is a Man In The Chosen, Jesus is far from a weakling who lacks masculine traits. The portrayal by actor Jonathan Roumie—a devout Catholic who says he has had a “personal relation- ship with [Jesus Christ his] entire life” — reminds me of Aslan, a Jesus who is “kind but not safe.” When he heals the paralyt- ic, he is daring and decisive, defying the Pharisee Shmuel’s challenge. When Shmuel calls for the Roman guards, Jesus calmly walks out the back door, making it plain he re- treats not for fear but because his time has not yet come. Likewise, in the season finale, when Jesus and the Apostles begin their journey to the next town, they march to bring “trouble,” as the lyrics from the gritty song that plays ¾ ¾ James Merrick