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💀✨ The Last Ritual – A Conflict of Belief is a dark tale about the clash of two unwavering faiths bound together in one final ritual.
When an aging priest and a young shaman are forced to work side by side to stop an ancient dark force, they must sacrifice their deepest beliefs.
What if the very faith they hold sacred turns into their most dangerous weapon?
A journey filled with mystery, betrayal, and haunting questions about the true meaning of salvation.
⚔️ Will they succeed in sealing the gate of darkness? Or will they be consumed by the very evil they hoped to destroy?
When an aging priest and a young shaman are forced to work side by side to stop an ancient dark force, they must sacrifice their deepest beliefs.
What if the very faith they hold sacred turns into their most dangerous weapon?
A journey filled with mystery, betrayal, and haunting questions about the true meaning of salvation.
⚔️ Will they succeed in sealing the gate of darkness? Or will they be consumed by the very evil they hoped to destroy?
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00:04:59Will you come back here, please?
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00:06:02Have you ever been on the island before?
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00:07:22Oh, should the boat came back empty and no other boat could come in this weather.
00:07:25Look.
00:07:26Oh!
00:07:27It's that flying thing-a-ma-jeek, from Dingle.
00:07:29I've seen him passing over here, будто time.
00:07:31Is he broke down or what?
00:07:32I've seen him passin' over here man's the time.
00:07:35Is he broke down or what?
00:07:37Did you not hear it come in a minute ago?
00:07:39Sure, how could I?
00:07:40And I down in the califactory room,
00:07:42picking the stems off the berries.
00:07:45Oh, that's not the priest from Rome, surely.
00:07:48I should say it is.
00:07:50You suppose they have to wear special clothes
00:07:52to go up in one of them things.
00:07:54Now, go on now, Paul.
00:07:55Tell Brother Martin to send the visitor up.
00:07:57I'll do that, Father.
00:08:02Carry your bag, Father.
00:08:06All right.
00:08:15Carry right on up to the top, Father.
00:08:17All right, thank you.
00:08:23Mind the last step's uneven, Father.
00:08:25Wouldn't do the trip rolled up, would it?
00:08:27How are you?
00:08:28Fine, thanks.
00:08:29Good to meet you, Father Abbott.
00:08:30I'm James Kinsella.
00:08:31Padraig left you at the pier.
00:08:33I'm sorry about that.
00:08:34It seems he mistook you for a reporter.
00:08:36And you've been having lots of them, I'm told.
00:08:38But you came on your own, anyway.
00:08:40Enterprising.
00:08:41But you know that's the first flying machine
00:08:43ever to land on Morgard.
00:08:45Until now, it's as if we'd missed the century.
00:08:48Would you have preferred that?
00:08:49Preferred what?
00:08:50To have missed this century.
00:08:52To have been born in another time.
00:08:53I should think not.
00:08:55Under the English, unless you had a lust to be an archer,
00:08:58but it was not a time to be a Catholic priest in Ireland.
00:09:00Of course.
00:09:01I forgot.
00:09:02Oh.
00:09:03This is my ecumenical order of mission,
00:09:06and this letter is for you from Father General.
00:09:09Hmm.
00:09:10Father General.
00:09:11Hi.
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00:09:41This is a very special day.
00:10:07I've been an Albanese monk for 45 years,
00:10:10yet this is the first time I've ever had a letter signed by our father-general.
00:10:14A pity it has to be a letter of censure.
00:10:17But it's not menace such, I can assure you.
00:10:19Well, the tone is firm.
00:10:22In conclusion, I will only say that while Father Kinsella is with you to hear explanations,
00:10:28be it understood his decision is mine, and as such irrevocable.
00:10:33Now, that sounds as if I'm in hot water.
00:10:36A cup of tea?
00:10:38No, thank you.
00:10:40Ah, you will.
00:10:41Martin, bring us a cup of tea!
00:10:43Toaches!
00:10:45I'd just like to have another look at this if I may.
00:10:48Of course.
00:10:49Do you have a television here?
00:11:03Well, sometimes, when something big's going on in the world, we draw lots and five of us bicycle down to Doran's in the village.
00:11:10He has the television.
00:11:11Only five, mind.
00:11:12It's a small place.
00:11:13You know, of course, that the mass your monks say over on the mainland was shown on a television program two months ago.
00:11:19Indeed we do.
00:11:20Haven't we heard of nothing else ever since?
00:11:22Who'd have thought the Latin mass could still be so popular?
00:11:26That program has been seen and discussed by millions of Catholics all over the world.
00:11:30You don't.
00:11:31Extraordinary.
00:11:32Now, here's retain, Father Abbott.
00:11:33Thank you, Martin.
00:11:34Now, would you like an egg with that?
00:11:35No, no.
00:11:36We're having salmon for supper.
00:11:37Salmon?
00:11:38Yes, salmon.
00:11:39If Father Manners can find us a few in the ocean pool.
00:11:40It's an occasion, Martin.
00:11:41Father Kinsella's come all the way from Rome.
00:11:43This bread is our own baking.
00:11:44Irish soda bread.
00:11:45I hope you'll like it.
00:12:03Fantastic.
00:12:04Poor he's getting on.
00:12:05We all are here.
00:12:07Last year I said to Father Matthew, he's our Master of Nic eigen AIки,
00:12:10to father matthew he's our master of novices matthew i said when you retire we'll retire the
00:12:15job with you but not one recruited i see coming enough but now after that television program
00:12:21i can find enough recruits to fill a regiment i suppose that's a relief no it is not
00:12:28you're not anxious for new recruits i am not it's a hard life on this island fishing
00:12:33dry and kelp oh firemen for a few potatoes it rains a lot and the monastery's cold there's no way of
00:12:40heating it properly and we often find it difficult to make ends meet but isn't that the thing about
00:12:45hardship i mean men will accept it if they feel it's for a worthwhile cause and just so but the
00:12:51monastic life as you know yourself father is it's often something different i break all clergy into
00:12:56two groups myself proselytizers or prayers or if you like commissioners or monks but monks
00:13:03can also be missionaries through it not on mark island it takes a special vocation to live in a
00:13:10place like this not many have it i do not have it myself i sometimes think
00:13:20you've lived on this island most of your life no that does not mean to say i like it
00:13:24you prefer to be somewhere else i did not say that of course not i'm sorry
00:13:29i suppose i'm the missionary type myself i've always wanted to go to south america
00:13:37to be one of father hartman's revolutionaries overthrowing the government you've heard
00:13:42is father gustave hartman a fine man he is he was my teacher in south america no no i studied with
00:13:49him in boston he's crippled now you know no i did not know yes the brazilian militar has tortured him
00:13:57so many times that they finally broke his back i should like to meet you what sort of thing does
00:14:04he teach in those classes of these well he believes that the church is now the perfect structure through
00:14:09which social revolution can be brought in certain underdeveloped areas of the world and he shows how
00:14:13it can be done tell me does he talk much about god in what way do you mean i don't know forget it
00:14:24no go on please well what i mean is is it souls he's after or is it the good of mankind i would say
00:14:32the second i gathered as much well of course i'm not much up on those things i was never one for the
00:14:40missionary impulse myself but your seal for the old mass your continuance of the latin ritual here
00:14:46surely that could be interpreted as missionary spirit now come on let's go out see if minus
00:14:52has caught the salmon for a supper you stay the night well we've got a lot to talk about we do
00:15:02what did you tell the man with the helicopter if i ring he can be here in an hour well call him in
00:15:07the morning then come on mind the step now i know we don't want to trip up wrong
00:15:20good day hello well there i would say hi cool clear which matter matters i hear ted he's looking
00:15:28looking for a couple of fish well then let's go see where he's going
00:15:41well then let's go see where he's going
00:15:49that's father manners he said the mask when the television people came when he catches salmon he puts
00:16:16him in that pool there then when the boat goes to the mainland we sell them they fetch a good price too
00:16:21so it's a special treat tonight eating salmon ourselves it's things like that it's the little
00:16:26things that keeps us going here the jam in our loids
00:16:35he's a shy man when the telly people tried to talk to him he couldn't speak he's dying to talk to you
00:16:41though i warn you still that's what you're here for isn't it explanations wasn't that what the father
00:16:46general called them ah we have our fish
00:17:01well now however happens how about these how do they do yes i think they'll do i think they'll do
00:17:08nicely and this is father kinseller all the way from rome our champion fisherman father mannus
00:17:13father father how about to know you oh from rome so you're that man from rome yes
00:17:19i'd never have thought why what were you expecting well i don't know i was expecting somebody
00:17:26of this older you know more the sergeant major side and italian you're not italian you're american
00:17:32yes i am
00:17:36well i'm delighted to say well no i'm not delighted at all because
00:17:40we don't know what you're going to do here do we you hold your tongue now manners hold your tongue
00:17:49uh you know when he was a little boy they told him it was a sin to tell a lie and i don't think
00:17:53he's told one since but seriously father i'd love to have a bit of a talk with you sometime because
00:18:00you know what's been happening here it's quite astonishing yes yes well i think then uh we'd better
00:18:07go inside if you want to have a word with the father uh come now let's go
00:18:11okay thank you thank you thank you oh we can't bring that with us as well sure we can
00:18:17okay good night
00:18:29all right i'll be referee oh now manners here's a chance get at it yes what are you going to say
00:18:39yeah what's this husband say um i forgot what i was going to say but i can tell you this much
00:18:45i i haven't had a wink of sleep since i heard you were coming look it's as plain as the nose on
00:18:52your face i mean we we did nothing to start all this we've been going over to the mainland and saying
00:18:58master every Sunday the way we always did in latin the way we were brought up to say it
00:19:04with the priest and the people facing the altar you see not facing god you could say because there's
00:19:11the priest changing the bread and wine into the body and blood of christ the way jesus told his
00:19:16disciples of the last supper this is my body this is my blood do ye this in commemoration of me
00:19:23you see god sent his son on this earth and he died for us he died for our sins
00:19:34and that's what the matter is all about you see i mean it's just that
00:19:39a commemoration of his death and it was always in latin because latin is the language of the church
00:19:46and the church's universe i mean a fella could drop into a church anywhere in the world anywhere and
00:19:51here the very itself same mass the latin mass the only master ever was and the fact that it was in
00:19:59latin well that was part of the mystery because you i mean you weren't just talking to your neighbor
00:20:05you were talking to all mighty god you see anyway that's the way we've been doing it for the past
00:20:13two thousand years you see well just on two thousand years oh it's a mystery of course it's a mystery
00:20:22but i mean well what you're giving us now there's no mystery about that at all i mean it's only a
00:20:27mockery as far as i'm concerned that same song because you're not talking to all mighty gods you're
00:20:34talking you're talking to your neighbor and that's why it's in english or german or chinese or whatever
00:20:40well whatever kind of language you want to use in the church
00:20:47and of course the people see through it of course they do and that's what has them coming here to coon
00:20:53mountain if you could only see those people bareheaded with the rain pelting off their faces when
00:21:01they see that piece of bread that becomes the body and blood of christ through the mystery and the
00:21:08miracle of the mass and you wouldn't want to sweep all that away if you wouldn't to put in this place
00:21:15what well what you had put in this place all this guitar playing and and singing and and turning
00:21:22around touching your neighbor and all that sort of prodigy i for no other reason than to bring
00:21:28people into the church the way we used to bring them into the parish hall for a game of bingo
00:21:37i wish i had all that conviction manis you see we've a lot of sermons in us here in the back and
00:21:45beyond yeah but i'd see what i'm saying i mean it it's the god's truth you have it will bear me out
00:21:52i don't know what god's truth is do any of us if we did there'd be no arguments between us
00:22:01well would they no i suppose not well well and it reminds there's nothing personal you understand
00:22:09oh of course father i know that i appreciate uh hearing your point of view you do i found the
00:22:17lamb good man you said where was it lying in cullen's old bad right against the pony yeah and the pony
00:22:24didn't mind a double of this there's a paraphrase oh it took more than prayer it took the whole day
00:22:29yeah we'll see you at supper come i'll show you our church yeah um a little sustenance now oops
00:22:55here we are
00:22:59say uh you were in rome at the time of pope john weren't you that time you were ill i was not ill
00:23:19i went on a holiday to england and then on to the shrine at lourdes and then on to rome
00:23:24so where did you hear that i just said it's irish romanesque 12th century isn't it beautiful isn't
00:23:36there are advantages to being in a back this is one of abbeys in ireland that escaped being almost
00:23:43entirely destroyed by cromwell and was interviewed
00:23:54you studied at buckmore abbey in england didn't you yes that's a beautiful question it is
00:23:58have you ever thought of asking for a transfer a transfer to some place less remote could be arranged
00:24:05in christian all the abbots of morgue are buried here 51 of them all laid down like bottles of wine
00:24:15god will in i'll be 52 yeah a stupid ambition but i have it it's funny but this place is no
00:24:24summer resort but every time i take to the mainland i will not sleep there if i can get back in
00:24:29in my feet at home here my feet at home nowhere is one of you were ordered to win on the monastery
00:24:41by whom father general of course
00:24:47i hope
00:24:51i would hope
00:24:52holy god
00:25:08oh
00:25:22Father, you must be tired after your journey.
00:25:27I'll show you to our guest house.
00:25:52Well, there you are.
00:25:54We'll have supper at 7.00.
00:25:56I'll pick you up at 6.30.
00:25:58Okay.
00:26:22Let's go.
00:26:52Father John.
00:27:09Father.
00:27:10Father Colum.
00:27:11How do you do, Father?
00:27:12Father Kevin.
00:27:13Father Kinsella from my mother's house in Rome.
00:27:16Father Terence.
00:27:17In charge of our farm here.
00:27:19How do you do, Father?
00:27:20Brother Alphonsus.
00:27:21Brother.
00:27:22Did you come all the way from Rome and that flying machine?
00:27:24No.
00:27:25Did you hear what Brother Alphonsus wants to know?
00:27:27That's a helicopter, Alphonsus.
00:27:29It couldn't fly all the way from Rome.
00:27:31Father Daniel.
00:27:33Father Daniel.
00:27:34Father Matthew, our master of novices.
00:27:36What novices?
00:27:37I'm Jack of all trades and master of knowledge.
00:27:39Hardly so.
00:27:40Is your father Kinsella from Rome?
00:27:42I know he's from Rome.
00:27:43Indeed, we all do.
00:27:44You are here because of the wonderful storm masses on the mainland.
00:27:48Do you know that we had six charter flights from Boston and New York last month?
00:27:51Yes, Paul.
00:27:52Brother.
00:27:53What are you saying, Father?
00:27:54I was saying that I hope that you will not try to change our ways.
00:27:58What do you mean?
00:27:59The mass, Father.
00:28:01I will be honest with you.
00:28:02It will be a crime if we will prevent it from doing this holy work.
00:28:05I will eat.
00:28:06My deputy, Father Walter.
00:28:09Father.
00:28:10There you go.
00:28:11Father.
00:28:12Father, consider it.
00:28:13Now, you sit on my right.
00:28:14And Walter, you sit on his other side.
00:28:17Then you'll be surrounded by the Morcaire establishments.
00:28:20Father, please.
00:28:21There you go.
00:28:22Thank you, Father.
00:28:23I wish you could see you'll be seated.
00:28:27I heard you, Heavenly Father.
00:28:29I have a good source of hope for you.
00:28:30Omnium in te sperant, Domine.
00:28:33Et tu, benas, estiam adorum in tempere artiunum.
00:28:38Benedic, Domine nos.
00:28:42Et hec tua dona, quede tua lagitate, sumus sumturi per Christum Dominum nostrum.
00:28:50Amen.
00:29:00C'est l'heure, Giddy.
00:29:06No, il n'y a pas d'air.
00:29:10C'est un peu.
00:29:30Thank you very much, God of the Holy Spirit...
00:29:34...for the universe and the benefits of you...
00:29:38...who lived and lived in a century and a century.
00:29:41Amen.
00:29:43May we have a word with you, Father?
00:29:46Yes.
00:29:47Yes.
00:29:48Yes.
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00:29:56Yes.
00:29:57May we have a word with you, Father?
00:30:00Father, consider, and I have much to discuss.
00:30:03We'll go up to my parlour now for a cup of tea.
00:30:05We haven't had a chance to meet our visitor.
00:30:07Affairs of state, Father, work before play.
00:30:09This way, please.
00:30:10May I not just ask him one thing?
00:30:12Good night, Father Matthew.
00:30:14Get excited.
00:30:15You know what they call you?
00:30:17The Inquisitor.
00:30:19I'm hardly that.
00:30:20That's a good one, isn't it?
00:30:22But what if you have a case of heresy on your hands?
00:30:25As the general's man, you have the power to act against us, don't you?
00:30:28Oh, look.
00:30:29This is the end of the 20th century, not the beginning of the 13th.
00:30:32I mean, how can we even define a case of heresy today?
00:30:36I'll define this one for you.
00:30:38Yesterday's orthodoxy is today's heresy.
00:30:41But, Father Abbott, we're merely trying to create a uniform posture within the church.
00:30:46If everybody decides to worship in his own way, obviously that will create this unity.
00:30:50And a dish of tea.
00:30:54All right.
00:30:55Milk and sugar.
00:30:56No, black's fine.
00:30:58All right.
00:30:59Explanations, as the Father General calls them.
00:31:03Where shall I begin?
00:31:05Did you know Ireland was the only country in the world where, once upon a time, every Catholic went to Mass over Sunday?
00:31:13Everyone.
00:31:14Even the men.
00:31:15That's impressive.
00:31:16Until the time of Pope John, that was, when the new Mass came in.
00:31:20Well, we were like everybody else.
00:31:23We obeyed orders, went over to the mainland, and said the new Mass in English.
00:31:27And the people stopped coming to church?
00:31:30Oh.
00:31:31Some women.
00:31:32But the men and the boys stood outside smoking.
00:31:35So I was worried.
00:31:37I said to the monks, what on earth are we doing if we cannot persuade the people to come back into the church?
00:31:42It's the priest's job to keep their faith in Almighty God.
00:31:46And I don't want to tamper with their faith.
00:31:48So I decided we'd go back and say the old Mass in the old way.
00:31:53And, well, that's the whole story.
00:31:55Well, hardly.
00:31:57This spring you had 20 charter flights from Europe alone, plus pilgrimage groups from the United States and Canada.
00:32:04So large, in fact, that no church could hold the crowds.
00:32:07So you set up shop on a big scale upon Coombe Mountain, which in Cromwell's time was associated with rebellion.
00:32:12Mass was set in secret by outlawed priests, with some member of the congregation as lookout.
00:32:16Hmm.
00:32:17Yet that was a mistake.
00:32:19But at the time I didn't see the connection.
00:32:21I just wanted to accommodate the crowds.
00:32:24But you accepted a gift of loudspeakers from the local merchants here.
00:32:28The people couldn't hear the service.
00:32:30It's customary to accept gifts that aim at enhancing worship.
00:32:35And private confessions, Father Abbott.
00:32:38Is that another accommodation?
00:32:40The people here are very conservative.
00:32:42But you know as well as I that private confessions are no longer permitted, except in cases where the sin is so grave that special counsel is required.
00:32:49But what am I to do?
00:32:51The people here still think it's a special sin to molest a child or take another man's wife, all that sort of thing.
00:32:59What am I to do if the people still believe that sin is mortal to the soul?
00:33:05I know it must be difficult for you to accept, Father Abbott.
00:33:09But the idea of Catholics confessing their sins to a priest in private is very distasteful to other groups within our ecumenical brotherhood.
00:33:16And now that the new and easier form has been sanctioned by Vatican IV.
00:33:20Well, you've read the debate, surely.
00:33:22That's agreed.
00:33:23I know I'm out of step, but that's not the reason why you're here.
00:33:26You know why I'm here.
00:33:28You know what's happening here.
00:33:30Mount Coombe has become a place of international religious pilgrimage.
00:33:33You mean a sort of Lourdes?
00:33:36As Lourdes was before it was closed down, yes.
00:33:38We're not like Lourdes.
00:33:41There are no miracles here.
00:33:44You went there once, didn't you?
00:33:47A long time ago, yes.
00:33:50After Lourdes, when you journeyed on the wrong, you asked for a meeting with our spiritual director there.
00:33:56You said that what you'd seen at Lourdes had caused you to have some religious doubts.
00:34:00It's a long time ago.
00:34:02It's irrelevant to this discussion.
00:34:05Well, there could be a connection.
00:34:07Some men compensate for former doubts by an excessive devotion.
00:34:11There is a file on me in Rome?
00:34:14Well, the order tries to keep complete personnel records.
00:34:17You know that.
00:34:18Listen, I'll be frank.
00:34:19We've just learned that now an American network is planning a special program on your mass here, and Father General is very worried.
00:34:26So that's it?
00:34:28Well, why didn't you say so?
00:34:30I can ban the telepeople, no trouble at all.
00:34:33Even the President of the United States can't ban American television.
00:34:36I can refuse to have them filming on Holy Ground.
00:34:39No.
00:34:40If you do that, you may lend this a significance you never intended.
00:34:43You see, what's happening here is being interpreted by some commentators as the first stirrings of a Catholic counter-revolution.
00:34:48Ah, sure, that's nonsense.
00:34:50The Church is one body, Father Abbott.
00:34:52What one part does affects the whole.
00:34:55How I envy you.
00:34:58It must be rewarding to be like you, to feel you can change something in a world like ours.
00:35:05Next month, the first World Congress of Christian and Buddhist faiths will meet in Bangkok,
00:35:11and Father General has been chosen as president of that meeting.
00:35:14Now, any scandal about our order at this time could be fatal to the success of that meeting.
00:35:19A powerful faction is already in opposition.
00:35:21The Pungi demonstrations in Singapore last month were the beginnings of that opposition.
00:35:25Now do you see what I'm talking about?
00:35:27All I see is that because some Congress is going on at the other end of the world,
00:35:31we have to give up the old mass here on Mount Coombe.
00:35:34It makes you wonder, what does the mass mean nowadays?
00:35:40In Rome, what does it mean?
00:35:44Well, religion has been opened up everywhere.
00:35:46The individual conscience is very important.
00:35:48Things are much more free.
00:35:49Free, did you say?
00:35:51Look, you are an abbot with the powers of a bishop.
00:35:56I needn't explain the importance for the seniors in our order to act in concert and set an example.
00:36:01I asked you a question about the mass.
00:36:04I don't think you answered me, Father.
00:36:08The Vatican maintains that it's no longer obligatory for Catholics to believe that the bread and wine on the altar
00:36:18are actually changed into the body and blood of Christ, except symbolically.
00:36:23I mean, it's no longer necessary to think of God as actually being present there in the tabernacle.
00:36:29So, a man doesn't need a big dose of faith anymore?
00:36:35I'm sorry?
00:36:37Nothing.
00:36:40So, unless I abandon the Latin mass, I will be disciplined, is that it?
00:36:46I wish you wouldn't put it quite that way.
00:36:48What other way is there to put it?
00:36:51I'd like to know what powers you have.
00:36:55Well, in, shall we say, a situation of deadlock, I am empowered to order your immediate transfer
00:37:04and to install an acting abbot in your place.
00:37:07Sounds like the old days.
00:37:09There's a great deal at stake here, Father Abbott.
00:37:11I hope we won't be forced to invoke such serious measures.
00:37:16I hope so, too.
00:37:19You don't seem to be well up on the new ecumenical rule of the World Council of Churches, Father.
00:37:28The rule?
00:37:29If I choose to appeal to the Amsterdam Council, I cannot be transferred until the appeal is heard.
00:37:36That might take several months.
00:37:39In the meantime, there'd be a lot of publicity.
00:37:42Possibly.
00:37:43I might even become the first martyr in that counter-revolution you were talking about.
00:37:49I am sorry.
00:37:51I overlooked the question of an appeal to the ecumenical council.
00:37:56Hmm.
00:37:57Well, if I were in your shoes, maybe I'd have done the same thing myself.
00:38:03Hmm.
00:38:06However, as I do have that leeway...
00:38:11Excuse me, Father Abbott.
00:38:13When may I hope to have an answer for Father General?
00:38:16We'll talk about that tomorrow.
00:38:18Martin, I'll show you to your quarters.
00:38:23Ah.
00:38:24Father Abbott?
00:38:25Martin.
00:38:26Father Kinsella's going to bed.
00:38:29Bring a light along for the road.
00:38:31He's not a nice cat like yourself.
00:38:33Yeah, do that, Father Abbott.
00:38:36Well, didn't you eat the biscuits then?
00:38:39Try a lemon puff.
00:38:41They're first class.
00:38:45I'll pick you up at eight.
00:38:47Good night.
00:38:48Good night, Father Abbott.
00:38:49Good night.
00:38:50Good night, Father Abbott.
00:38:52May day, Lord.
00:38:53May day, Lord.
00:38:54サム
00:38:55I have a way of walking in town.
00:38:58If it's red, I'll put it right out.
00:38:59I'll take a light and walk you.
00:39:00All right, Martin.
00:39:01V extends off as my car.
00:39:02Good night.
00:39:03Go away.
00:39:04Come ready now.
00:39:05That's good thing.
00:39:06God I am.
00:39:07I'm back.
00:39:08Little bit.
00:39:09Oh, thank you.
00:39:10It's all right, Martin.
00:39:11I'll take him back.
00:39:12Thank you, Kevin.
00:39:15Oh, it's Western Helicopters.
00:39:17Your pilot's calling from Dinkins.
00:39:19Hello.
00:39:20Kinsella here.
00:39:22Yes, Father.
00:39:23I called earlier.
00:39:24There's a hull of a storm moving up from the coast of Spain.
00:39:27Unless you get out tomorrow morning, you could be locked in for days.
00:39:31I see.
00:39:32Well, look, I don't know when I can leave here.
00:39:36Tell you what, I'll call you before 9 tomorrow morning.
00:39:40Can you be ready to come in if I give the word?
00:39:42Sure, Miss Father.
00:39:43Grant.
00:39:44I'll see you soon, I hope.
00:39:45Thank you for calling.
00:39:47Do priests from Rome not dress like priests anymore?
00:39:51Oh, no.
00:39:53Only on special occasions.
00:39:55You're one of those new priests, aren't you?
00:39:58The revolutionaries.
00:40:00Are you interested in that?
00:40:02Tell me, is it true?
00:40:04In South America, some priests are overthrowing the government.
00:40:07Yes, they are.
00:40:09How can they be doing the likes of that?
00:40:11Why not?
00:40:12The early Christians were revolutionaries, remember?
00:40:15What has that got to do with saving souls for God?
00:40:19Everything.
00:40:20Do you know that in places like South America, young priests our age are dying for the causes of social justice?
00:40:25What are they doing being priests?
00:40:27You know, if I wanted to join the IRA, I'd have joined the IRA.
00:40:31But I joined the church.
00:40:33So the church can be a powerful instrument of change.
00:40:35It can lead a revolution that people will follow.
00:40:37We have enormous influence.
00:40:39You know, that's trite.
00:40:41Look at the people over there on the mainland.
00:40:43They don't want your social justice.
00:40:45They want the old mass.
00:40:47They want to believe in something.
00:40:49Something more than this world can offer them.
00:40:51What do you offer, Father?
00:40:53Well, perhaps a better life, Father, not pie in the sky.
00:40:57But you're a priest.
00:40:58That's not your job.
00:41:00They want you to forgive them their sins.
00:41:02To baptize them.
00:41:03Marry them.
00:41:04Bury them.
00:41:05Show them there's a God above them.
00:41:07A God who cares about them.
00:41:09The old parish priests knew that.
00:41:11You don't.
00:41:12I'm afraid you're wrong.
00:41:13You're out of step.
00:41:14Unless we alter our image, we'll lose the people.
00:41:16Times have changed.
00:41:17Yes, they have.
00:41:18And you and the likes of you are destroying the church, in my opinion.
00:41:22Well, what may I ask?
00:41:23Do you know about it, Father?
00:41:24You're stuck away here in this God-forsaken island.
00:41:26What do you know about what's happening out there in the world?
00:41:28You know, I do have eyes in my head.
00:41:30I see the people on Mount Coombe on a Sunday morning.
00:41:32I've seen it myself, Father.
00:41:34Well, you didn't know you had visitors.
00:41:37Is it my turn?
00:41:39Yes.
00:41:40I'll spell it here for you.
00:41:42I'm supposed to see if Father can tell her to which quarters.
00:41:44Oh, no, no.
00:41:45Look, if you have some work to do, don't let me hold you up.
00:41:47I can find my way back.
00:41:49No, it's not work.
00:41:51I'm going to the church.
00:41:53We're praying all night to save the mass.
00:41:56I see.
00:41:58And, uh, who are we?
00:42:02Some of the monks.
00:42:03That's our way of trying to change things.
00:42:06Prayer.
00:42:08May I come with you?
00:42:10Let me see you.
00:42:11Well, why not?
00:42:12Well.
00:42:13Why not?
00:42:18d
00:42:40Amen.
00:43:10So you're in on this.
00:43:27You have good news for us, I hope, Tomatis.
00:43:29I have no news. I asked you a question.
00:43:31Yes.
00:43:33I am the ringleader.
00:43:34Oh, no, you're not.
00:43:36Adding a light to your sins will not help whatever foolish aim you have in mind.
00:43:40You know very well what I have in mind.
00:43:42It's what we all have in our minds.
00:43:43Is it?
00:43:44Do you know my mind?
00:43:46But asking God's help isn't a sin.
00:43:49Breaking the law of obedience is.
00:43:52Tomas, you aren't going to be vexed with us, are you?
00:43:54I'm very disappointed in you, Walter.
00:43:58Now, I want you to go out there and get them all off to bed at once.
00:44:00So our prayers have been answered.
00:44:02There haven't been nothing of the sort.
00:44:04We've worked to do here in the fields and in the abbey.
00:44:07The mackerel running. I want the debts out.
00:44:10We live by work here.
00:44:13I've told you a hundred times we're not a contemplative order.
00:44:16But this is a case where only the power of prayer can help.
00:44:19You cannot run a monastic community like a holiday camp, Walter.
00:44:25People taking it into their heads to stay up half the night
00:44:28without as much as a buy or a win to leave.
00:44:30I asked everyone here to behave as usual while this visitor was here.
00:44:35I'm very disappointed, Walter.
00:44:36I am at fault, Father Abbott.
00:44:40But you're not the ringleaders.
00:44:41There's no use pretending you are.
00:44:44You are my deputy.
00:44:46And as my deputies who cannot obey orders, where am I?
00:44:51I'm sorry, Tomas.
00:44:53I'll get them off to bed.
00:44:55God bless you.
00:44:56Father Abbott says we must leave.
00:45:09Father Abbott says we must leave.
00:45:11Father Abbott says we must leave.
00:45:13Father Abbott says we must leave.
00:45:15Father Abbott says we must leave.
00:45:17Father Abbott says we must leave.
00:45:19Father Abbott says we must leave.
00:45:21Father Abbott says we must leave.
00:45:23and I want no holy vigils in sales do you hear the holiest thing every man jack of you can do
00:45:35is to turn our pit to work in the morning
00:45:53and I want you to turn our pit to work in the morning
00:46:23father matthew
00:46:25oh father matthew
00:46:27where are the others
00:46:29what others
00:46:31the vigil
00:46:33what vigil
00:46:35it is a vigil of devotion to our lady
00:46:37for the purpose of preserving the latin mass among whom I'm here on the island of mark
00:46:41the other monks have gone to bed
00:46:43I have sent them to bed
00:46:45why did you do that father matthew
00:46:47because I am in charge here
00:46:51father matthew it is now some time since I've had to rebuke you
00:46:55the last thing I want is to reopen our disagreements of former days
00:46:59but there is work to be done tomorrow
00:47:01you will please go to your bed
00:47:05I have made a solemn promise to our lady to hold a vigil in her honor this night
00:47:09when you were ordained as a monk
00:47:11you made a solemn promise to God
00:47:13to obey your superiors
00:47:15go to bed
00:47:17may I ask then father abbott
00:47:19what is your decision
00:47:21about the continuance of the latin mass on montcum
00:47:23I have been informed by Rome
00:47:25that the mass is now to be regarded as a symbolic ritual
00:47:29that is heresy pure and simple
00:47:31why is it heresy Matthew
00:47:33because the mass is the daily miracle of the catholic faith
00:47:35bread and wine are changed into the body and blood of jesus christ
00:47:37without that what is the church
00:47:39so our belief in jesus christ and his church
00:47:41depends upon a belief in miracles
00:47:43is that it Matthew
00:47:45of course that is it
00:47:55saint augustine said
00:47:57i should not be a christian but for the miracles
00:47:59without a miracle christ did not rise from his tomb and ascend into heaven
00:48:03and without that there would be no christian touch
00:48:05our visitor brings us an order
00:48:09from our father general in Rome
00:48:13would you obey that order
00:48:15if it instructed you to consider the mass not as a miracle
00:48:19but simply as a pious ritual
00:48:21if that be it for me to speak against my superiors
00:48:25but i am ashamed to hear that talk coming from you
00:48:28and under god's roof
00:48:30are you now
00:48:31but on the other hand it seems
00:48:33you're not ashamed to act against the orders of your superior
00:48:36even to the point of organizing the other monks to disobedience
00:48:40i do not consider that i have been disobedient to our rule
00:48:44you were told there would be no special observances tonight
00:48:48i acted according to my conscience father abbott
00:48:50hold your tongue and go to yourself
00:48:54i want you in front of the chapter at supper time tomorrow
00:48:56to apologize for your behavior
00:48:58i've had enough of you all these years Matthew
00:49:00insolence and insubordination
00:49:02is against every vow you took when you became a monk
00:49:06you should be ashamed
00:49:10since you asked me to apologize father abbott
00:49:14i humbly apologize
00:49:16and since you ordered me to retire
00:49:18i obey your order
00:49:20at least i would have the time you were told
00:49:22because I want you to contact me
00:49:23on the other hand
00:49:25under god
00:49:26in love
00:49:28i know
00:49:29that i've been in the air
00:49:31in love
00:49:32you
00:49:33it's a bias
00:49:34and it's a bias
00:49:35to be a person
00:49:36and it's a bias
00:49:38that is you
00:49:39how far
00:49:40that is
00:49:41how far
00:49:42you
00:49:43and
00:49:44with
00:49:45your
00:49:46god
00:49:48Oh
00:50:18Oh
00:50:48Oh
00:51:18Oh
00:51:48All right, father morning. Well, uh, we put a bit of breakfast in here the father Abbott was supposed to meet me here this morning
00:51:54Ah, yes. Well, he's been a bit delayed to see well, you know, there's a storm coming up
00:51:59I'll have to make a decision about the helicopter. Yes, that's right. Well, he knows all about that
00:52:09Coming in
00:52:11Ah, good day. Good morning. One egg or two
00:52:15One's fine. It's that you don't hear. No
00:52:22Don't bother. I'm all right. I wish you try to find father Abbott for me, please. Ah, yes, well, I'll leave you to your breakfast
00:52:28Oh
00:52:44There you are now I hope you enjoyed that. I'm sure thank you
00:52:49I
00:52:57I hope that egg is fresh. There are old hens here. They've not been laying well lately father Abbott
00:53:04Brother Pius if you please get back to your work. I am working
00:53:07There's a great curiosity here the wolves not only have ears they have tongs as well
00:53:17Well, uh, shall we go outside? I'll finish your breakfast. It's all right. I'm not hungry. You know about the storm
00:53:23Yeah, you could be trapped here for days a terrible fate for a go-getter like yourself
00:53:29It's all right
00:53:31I've ordered your helicopter. It'll be here within the hour
00:53:34You ordered it
00:53:36Brother Pius and brother Malachi who's in there with you?
00:53:39Nobody in trouble, father!
00:53:41Get back to your work then
00:53:45They're like wireless sets all tuned in. Let's take a walk
00:53:59Oh
00:54:02There are sins of avoidance
00:54:04Sins of omission
00:54:06Tines really because of the matter of conscience to act. What about the sin of pride?
00:54:11Now look
00:54:12Our poverty, our chastity, our obedience
00:54:17Three small gifts that we've offered God when we became monks of this order
00:54:22And now you're going to ask God he'll give you back the last of these
00:54:25But you're doing holy work
00:54:29Coming here in this helicopter
00:54:31Telling us to stop
00:54:34No
00:54:35No, he must go down there
00:54:36No, no, no
00:54:38You know, I think that God sends down more trials than you than he does than the rest of us
00:54:42Because he knows that you want to prove your love for him
00:54:46But perhaps he's testing you now
00:54:49Asking you to wait
00:54:52I'm not being willful
00:54:54But surely I must do what I know is right
00:54:58Surely my conscience doesn't lie to me
00:55:01And does your conscience tell you that you must break our law of obedience?
00:55:07Well
00:55:09God doesn't make slaves of us
00:55:11Every one of us has the right to choose
00:55:14And if you're sure that it's his will
00:55:17That you go down there now and do whatever it is you're going to do
00:55:20I certainly shan't stop you
00:55:23Go on then
00:55:25Go on
00:55:26Go on
00:55:44Here is a letter of apology to Father General
00:55:46I have not sealed it, you may read it if you wish
00:55:49Last night you said you felt you had no right to interfere with the beliefs of your congregation
00:55:50I was in error
00:55:51You promised to give up the Latin mass at once, yet you give no reasons
00:55:56And here is my letter of resignation
00:55:57I've asked to be transferred to another monastery, not as an abbot but as an ordinary monk
00:56:03But why?
00:56:05Is it because you're unwilling to carry out Father General's order?
00:56:07The order will be carried out at once
00:56:09There will be no trouble
00:56:10Well what about the crowds on the mainland and the monks here? Of course there will be trouble
00:56:11We do not say the Latin mass on the mainland, the people cannot attend it
00:56:13As for the monks, I am their abbot, they will do as I tell them
00:56:15But why do you want to resign?
00:56:16Because I was wrong
00:56:17I had no right to tamper with people's days
00:56:19I have no right to say
00:56:21I am the abbot, they will do as I tell them
00:56:23Why do you want to resign?
00:56:25Because I was wrong
00:56:27I had no right to tamper with people's days
00:56:29I am the abbot, I am the abbot, I am the abbot, I am the abbot
00:56:31I am the abbot, I am the abbot, I am the abbot, I am the abbot, I am the abbot I do as I tell them
00:56:37But why do you want to resign?
00:56:40Because I was wrong
00:56:41I had no right to tamper with people's days
00:56:43We'll see.
00:56:58I think you're being too hard on yourself.
00:57:00Everybody makes mistakes and yours were made with the best of intentions.
00:57:03Intentions don't count, actions do.
00:57:06Remember Martin Luther?
00:57:08Insubordination is the beginning of the breakdown of the church.
00:57:12And I have been insubordinate.
00:57:14I don't believe that, Father Abbott.
00:57:16I, um, overheard you lecture Father Matthew last night on the vow of obedience.
00:57:21Never spoken from the heart.
00:57:24Well, it's easy to lecture others.
00:57:27In my own case, I've gone against the orders of my superiors.
00:57:30But there's no need for you to resign.
00:57:33You're a holy man and a good man, and you need it here.
00:57:36Your duty is here, as the abbot of Mork.
00:57:38No, I've come to the end of a long road.
00:57:41I disagree, Father Abbott.
00:57:42And as Father General's plenty potentiary, I order you to stay.
00:57:44You can tear this up.
00:57:47There's something I must explain to you.
00:57:50Your helicopter will be here in a few minutes.
00:57:52Let's go up and get your bag.
00:57:53We can talk on the way.
00:57:58I did not do this for holy reasons.
00:58:01I did it because I, myself, lack conviction.
00:58:05There's a file on me in Rome.
00:58:07There's a file about my visit to Lourdes.
00:58:08You've read it?
00:58:09Yes, I have.
00:58:10But it doesn't explain.
00:58:11I'll tell you now what happened.
00:58:13I went there with two priests.
00:58:15We were on our way to Rome and we stopped off to visit the shrine.
00:58:19A pious pilgrimage.
00:58:21The shrine of Our Lady at Lourdes in France.
00:58:24The place where the Virgin Mary was supposed to appear before an ignorant peasant girl.
00:58:28A place where people come from all over the world because they believe that God's mother will ask her son to cure them.
00:58:36Those poor, sick people.
00:58:39Blind children.
00:58:41Men without arms or legs.
00:58:43Dying women on stretchers.
00:58:44Every deformity.
00:58:46Every mortal ill.
00:58:48And all of them praying for a miracle.
00:58:52Spending their life savings to get there.
00:58:55Oh, it's a sad, dreadful sight.
00:59:00I've stood at the shrine, Father, and something came over me.
00:59:05I went back to the hotel and shut myself up and knelt down and tried to pray.
00:59:17I tried to pray.
00:59:21It's not the first time I've had this trouble.
00:59:24Even before Lourdes.
00:59:26Sometimes here on the island I've gone to church and started to say the Our Father.
00:59:31Our Father who art in heaven.
00:59:34But then I've looked at the altar and I know that there is no Father in heaven.
00:59:39That's a pitiful thought, don't you think?
00:59:42A man who became a monk with most of his life gone.
00:59:47Kneeling in church and staring at the altar and knowing that there is nothing on the altar.
00:59:53But wafers of communion bread.
00:59:56Not God.
00:59:59Just pieces of bread.
01:00:02When that would happen.
01:00:06When the words were just words.
01:00:08I begin to tremble and shake.
01:00:11As a prelude to hell.
01:00:13I suppose you'd call it a depression.
01:00:15I call it hell.
01:00:16An empty state.
01:00:17The hell of a priest deprived of God.
01:00:21And when I get into that state it's, oh, it's weeks, it's months.
01:00:25And I never know when I'm going to come out again.
01:00:27After Lourdes it was nearly a year.
01:00:30So now I'm afraid to pray.
01:00:34You see, I don't know if I'll come out again.
01:00:40You, uh, don't pray? Ever?
01:00:47No, not for a long time.
01:00:52Not for years.
01:00:55Oh, what about saying mass or your daily office?
01:00:59Does no one notice?
01:01:00It's strange, but they don't.
01:01:03One can pretend a preference for private devotion.
01:01:06But public prayers, well, there are plenty of monks who'll lead them.
01:01:09Then why have you stayed?
01:01:11It's a hard life.
01:01:13You said so yourself.
01:01:15But it's my life.
01:01:17I'm a sort of foreman here.
01:01:19A sort of manager.
01:01:21It's not far different from a secular job.
01:01:24The monks work hard.
01:01:27I'm here to keep it together.
01:01:28See, they make a go of it.
01:01:30We're like children.
01:01:32It's a simple life.
01:01:34We pass the days as if there was an endless supply of food.
01:01:38So, you see, you didn't know what sort of a man you were asking to stay on his rabbit.
01:02:08You'd travel light.
01:02:09It's the best way.
01:02:10Let's go down to the field.
01:02:11I want to get you off before I face up to them.
01:02:15You're expecting trouble?
01:02:16No.
01:02:17No.
01:02:18The thing about being in charge is to be firm.
01:02:20Like Father General.
01:02:21Like Father General.
01:02:22And yourself.
01:02:23By the way.
01:02:25What shall I say when the press and television people come around?
01:02:26You can refer all inquiries to me.
01:02:27I'm not sure.
01:02:28No.
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01:03:08No.
01:03:39Let me deal with them, won't you say anything?
01:04:05Have you worked for us now, Father Abbott?
01:04:07Are the horses brought up from the lower field?
01:04:11They are. May I ask our visitor just one question?
01:04:15You may not.
01:04:18Let us pass.
01:04:19There is a holy man, but he is also very tiresome.
01:04:39There are those that can cause trouble, but there are also those who are troubled.
01:04:55Father Kinsella!
01:04:56You have both methods, Father?
01:05:03When will you let me know of my replacement?
01:05:06Father Kinsella!
01:05:19So be it.
01:05:35Safe home, Father.
01:05:37Safe journey.
01:05:39Thank you, Father.
01:05:49We must change.
01:05:55You hear me?
01:06:19Thank you, Father.
01:06:49Father Abbott.
01:07:02Yes, Walter.
01:07:03Can you tell us now?
01:07:05The visitor is gone.
01:07:07Our visitor is gone.
01:07:09I am ashamed of you.
01:07:11Are we religious men or are we hooligans?
01:07:15I'm sorry, Father Abbott.
01:07:17I think we're all sorry.
01:07:19But can you tell us now what's going to happen?
01:07:22Yes, I can't tell you now.
01:07:24We have had orders from Father General in Rome.
01:07:28From now on, the Mass will be said in English in the new manner, the authors facing the congregation.
01:07:33I have written to Father General telling him we will do as he says.
01:07:39Yes, that is all.
01:07:40That is all?
01:07:42We have had our orders.
01:07:45It is up to all of us to carry them out to the best of our ability, isn't it?
01:07:50I'm sure we will do that, will we not?
01:07:52And the first thing we'll do is all of us get straight back to work now.
01:07:58And that is not the half of it, Father Abbott.
01:08:01Why have you not told the community what you told me last night?
01:08:04Last night I told you to go to bed.
01:08:06Now I tell you to go to work.
01:08:07You also told me we are no longer instructed to believe in the miracle of the Mass.
01:08:12That is so.
01:08:14Then how can a thing be a miracle one day and not a miracle the next day?
01:08:18I don't know.
01:08:18Maybe you are a greater theologian than the Pope or the Vatican Council, Father Matthew.
01:08:24I am not.
01:08:25I am a monk and I do as I am bed.
01:08:28No, no, no.
01:08:30Oh, Donald.
01:08:31It's blasphemy.
01:08:32No, no, no, Donald, no.
01:08:33You're not well.
01:08:33You're not just your sister.
01:08:34It's not for me to come here.
01:08:35I don't know.
01:08:35Now take control of yourself now.
01:08:37All of you get back to work now.
01:08:38No, wait, wait.
01:08:39I will not be put off.
01:08:40I will not be ordered to believe something which I do not believe.
01:08:43No one can order belief.
01:08:45It is a gift from God.
01:08:46Look, what he is proposing is a denial of everything the Mass stands for.
01:08:50Please.
01:08:54Let us go into the church.
01:09:16Let us go.
01:09:38Let us go.
01:09:38A miracle is when God comes here into this church among us.
01:10:08But you said the opposite! You said the sacrifice of the mass is just ritual!
01:10:12That the bread and wine remain bread and wine! That there are no miracles!
01:10:20Yes, prayer is the only miracle.
01:10:26We try to pray.
01:10:29If our words become prayer, God will come.
01:10:38Let us pray.
01:10:42Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
01:10:58Thy kingdom come.
01:11:02Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
01:11:08Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
01:11:20And lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil.
01:11:26Amen.
01:11:28Thank you!
01:11:38Oh, my God.
01:12:08Oh, my God.
01:12:38Oh, my God.
01:13:08Oh, my God.
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