Issue No: VM 231 (2004-13) March 26, 2004
From:
Joe Lecour {our friend in Sudbury}
17-year-old
Brian Moore had only a short time to write something for a class. The subject was
what Heaven was like. "I wowed them," he later told his father, Bruce.
"It's a killer. It's the bomb.
Brian's
parents had forgotten about the essay when a cousin found it while cleaning out
the teenager's locker at Teays Valley High School in Pickaway County. Brian had
been dead only hours, but his parents desperately wanted every piece of his life
near them, notes from classmates and teachers, his homework.
Only two months before, he had handwritten the essay about encountering
Brian
Moore died May 27, 1997, the day after Memorial Day. He was driving home from a
friend's house when his car went off Bulen-Pierce Road in Pickaway County and
struck a utility pole. He emerged from the wreck unharmed but stepped on a
downed power line and was electrocuted.
The Moores framed a copy of Brian's essay and hung it among the family portraits in the living room. "I think God used him to make a point. I think we were meant to find it and make something out of it, " Mrs. Moore said of the essay. She and her husband want to share their son's vision of life after death. "I'm happy for Brian. I know he's in heaven. I know I'll see him.
Brian's Essay: click here
Please check Graham's Corner for information on some programs to be shown on EWTN concerning the Passion of the Christ film, including a one hour program on the making of the film that will be shown on Friday March 26 at 10 pm (and repeated on Sunday March 28 at 5 pm).
From:
Tate, Martin
Hi Jim here is the URL for Steve Woods website
From: dan-gutoskie
I had hoped to connect our readers to a fabulous one hour broadcast on how to
strengthen marriage in tough times. It was available on Steve Woods "Family Life
Centre International Marriage Builders" web site. The address is www.familylifecenter.net
From: Don & Maureen Hall {Sarasota Florida}
Could you please pray for a special intention?
Thanks & God bless,
From: ted and joanne sabourin
URGENT
ACTION ALERT TO DEFEND MARRIAGE
Please Help Stop
International Action That Could Threaten Marriage in Canada!
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here To
read the newsletter.
Subject:
Prayer Request
Hi Jim, I
can't mention any names but please submit this prayer request to VM.
Please pray
that a woman with Alcohol addiction gets help fast. One of the
daughters in the family has threatened to commit suicide and the other teenage
daughter has drug related problems. The mother has been drunk every night last
week and the oldest daughter is very distraught. Please lets pray that Jesus
enters into their hearts.
God Bless! <*}}}< <*}}}< <*}}}< <*}}}<
Edward &
Joanne Sabourin
NOTES ON THE
PASSION OF THE CHRIST SYMBOLISM
These are personal notes from a group discussion with a priest called Fr. Sean
of the Legionaries of Christ. The discussion took place on Friday, February 27,
2004 at the St. Joseph Center in Alhambra. Fr. Sean said he has seen the movie 6
times and that his order had a priest on the set every day that Mel Gibson was
shooting the movie. Because of this, he was privy to much information about the
symbolism throughout the picture. Please forgive me if the notes seem to ramble.
They are merely a guide to ideas brought up in discussion that night and are by
no means a comprehensive list.
click
here to see the 16 notes
There
have been many writers on the "Passion of the Christ" ...
This writer
{Ted} is one, of our VM family ...
From:
Mike Staples ... Thought I would share the following reflection a good friend of
mine wrote after viewing Mel Gibson's "The Passion of Christ."
click
here
to see what Ted Penton had to write.
Folks - go
back and look at last week’s Virtual Ministry...
with all of the problems in Toronto, have you gone to the site? Go again
and read the two installments sent last week from Lillian Culumovic ... for
instance:
So, as you
have read, we have started our campaign to distribute these
tracts, so that churches and individuals can give them out to people who
have just seen the film, at the cinemas.
We are making this tract available to anyone who wants it. If you are from
outside the UK and can't afford the postage then you can download the
complete tract yourself for free, for distribution yourself. If this
interests you, go to www.revelationtv.com/tract.htm
Are
you going back to the show on Good Friday? Will you hand out these tracts?