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Summary: Wonderful and Moving
Review: Our Lord Jesus Christ would love this book very much because it contains such a beautiful and moving re-telling of His story. I can think of only one other book that can compare with it--THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JESUS CHRIST, which also contains personal details of Our Lord's Passion that could only be known to one who had shared marvelous transcendent visions of the Christ. May the Lord bless and keep these wonderful authors who are doing God's Work under the guidance of His Inspiration.
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Summary: Passion and Dispassion
Review: So many books draw from the same gospel story and generate more heat than light. Now there is the movie Passion, too, generating yet more passionate emotion.
But over the last century or so, before and since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, scholars have been toiling away dispassionately to shed the light of research on the Gospel and its precursors.
So a lot more is known now about about the Bible story.
We have a much better idea who Jesus was, the source of his teaching and his teachers, what he was doing before age 30. And even long afterwards, apropos the current debate about who killed Jesus. One important school of thought holds that He actually survived the crucifixion, books like Saving the Savior.
Writers like Elaine Pagels and Upton Ewing have proven that the Gospels we know were not written by eyewitnesses, but 200 years later, when they were massively censored and edited to be suitable for a Roman state religion...
Well, do people want Passion or Truth? The Man or the Myth? Tales or Teaching?
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Summary: Focusing on Our Lord's Passion Will Get You to Heaven
Review: Some Catholic Mystics (Saints) teach us that focusing on Jesus' Passion and Death will get you to heaven. This book walks you through our Lord's agony, step by step. After I read it, I was left with the picture of a Person who was literally skinned alive through scourging, and His Head was crowned with thorns and then The Body finally nailed to a cross, you get a little idea of what HE suffered "for us" physically. There were also mental and spiritual torments in addition to His physical sufferings. This book is for those who really want to grow spiritually and can face what He went through for us. The author was a nun who received only 2 months worth of visions depicting Christ's crucifixion and suffering. This book is well worth reading and contemplating.
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Summary: Our Own Passion
Review: The revelations that our Lord Jesus Christ allowed to the Venerable [soon to be saint] Anna Katharina Emmerich provides the reader with as close an insight as possible of what our Lord and Saviour did for all of us...by his dying in the cross is that we live...something that more times than none we seem to forget by the actions we follow in our daily life.I can only hope that my brothers and sisters in Christ, once they read this book, go out and spread the word of the greatest sacrifice of all times....he died for us, for our sins. The writings of Anna will bring a more closer relationship with our saviour. Read the book, its wonderfull. I cannot recommended enough. May God Bless you all.
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Summary: Read before seeing "The Passion" if you can
Review: The visions of Sister Emmerich, as transcribed by a local priest in the early 1800's, are deeply moving. I became interested in reading the "Dolorous Passion" when I heard that Mel Gibson had used it as a source for "The Passion". Some observations about the book and the film:
The book actually contains far more graphic violence than the film. The brutal treatment of Our Lord's final hours is related in excruciating detail. If anything, Gibson sanitized the story somewhat by skipping over some of the action and not dwelling as much as Emmerich on the attitudes of the bloodthirsty throng. I could find no anti-Semitism in the book. If Emmerich sees anyone as being responsible for Jesus' death, it is Satan himself. Time and time again she describes how Satan takes full possession of the angry mob and Roman soldiers as their blood lust reaches full crescendo. In the film, Pilate (I thought) is portrayed as a somewhat noble character with a deeply troubled conscience. In the book, he is depicted as pathetically weak, duplicitous and cowardly, content to sacrifice innocent blood just to keep himself out of trouble. The timeless quality of Our Lord's sacrifice comes across powerfully in the book. In Gesthemani, Sister Emmerich tells us how all of our sins-past, present, and future-appear before Him, as he takes them all upon Himself for our salvation. With all the meticulous detail of the twelve hours, it is easy to forget that for God, past, present and future are all one: our sins today hurt Him just as much as those committed by those who clamored for his crucifixion. That is a tough concept to get across in a film, and maybe a reason for the charges of anti-Semitism brought against it. On this topic and others, I think the book can help to clarify the message of the movie.
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Summary: When did Jesus live? Revelations...
Review: This book has revealed details that no other book has... The author really knows his subject matter well. I would also recommend to read "History: Fiction or Science?", you'll find revelations not only on the history of J.C. but on many other parts of antiquity, a controversial book but when the author/mathematician claims that J.C. was born in the 11Th century AD, he proves it with Astronomy and mathematics.
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Summary: This book has taught me to love others and be patient
Review: This book has taught me to love others and be patient in suffering. It is a deeply moving account of our Lord's passion, death, and resurrection. Life changing for true believers!
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Summary: Heart-rending, thought-provoking, deeply moving
Review: This book has taught me to love others and be patient in suffering. It is a deeply moving account of our Lord's passion, death, and resurrection. Life changing for true believers!This is an incredible book about the dolorous passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. The book is a non-stop page turner. I lose all track of time as I am transported back to the way of the cross.
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Summary: Completely touching
Review: This book is at least as touching, if not moreso, than the movie "Passion of the Christ." The main thing is, the movie focuses more on the physical sufferings of Jesus. Not that that's a bad thing of course. But once you realize what Jesus suffered for you physically, it would be a good idea to look more into the mental aspect. "The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ" expands on all of Jesus's sufferings, physical and mental. Besides meditations on Jesus's Passion, this book also includes a biography of Anne Catherine Emmerich. And, just a side note, I don't believe Emmerich was anti-semitic. Yes, she refers to "wicked Jews" but by that she means the group of Jews who actually shouted for Jesus's death, not all Jews for all of time. If you actually read the whole book, you'll realize this.
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Summary: a very moving book
Review: This books gives the visions of a christian mystic. The internal evidence in the book suggests that these visions are indeed genuine. Emmerich shows, through her visions, the unspeakable sufferings of Christ. I never thought these sufferings were so horrific. For instance, Christ was scourged so badly, that the ground was full of blood, and his body was an open wound. The account makes truly horrifying reading. I have rarely read anything like it, except for the book the passion and death of Jesus Christ by Liguori. A great book.
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