In addition to the pain and the exhaustion, he recalled how waiting on the cross between takes became tedious. To fight the boredom, he listened to music on headphones. One particular song called "Above All" (Like a Rose ...) by Michael W. Smith helped him through his most difficult moments.
"It arrived when I was confused and angry. I didn't think I could go on. The song described how Jesus was rejected and alone. That thought took me to a place — it opened an interior door that held me while on the cross," an emotional Caviezel explained. "The experience of feeling rejected and alone as all those around me laughed while drinking their hot coffees, oblivious to what was occurring. Jesus must have felt like this — forsaken, rejected, alone, and despised. It helped me pray in a very deep way — to pray without words, to pray from the heart. The discomfort, the loneliness, the split shoulder, the raw flesh all forced me into the arms of God because I had nowhere else to go for a performance I knew I was unable to create."
Jim Caviezel, Shamelessly Catholic
The Month of the Most Precious Blood. “Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent!”
St. John of the Crosss
Russell was brought up with an understanding of the power of film gained through the work of his grandfather, who had worked as a film cameraman during the war. Stan Wemyss was a pioneer in New Zealand’s TV industry. He produced documentaries and then worked as a cameraman, risking his life countless times to bring back images of war while under fire himself. His bravery won him the MBE.
Five years before Russell was to star in Gladiator, Joy (his grandfather’s wife) handed over to him Stan’s MBE medal together with his dagger, his camera and a selection of wartime stills. It was the medal he would wear with such pride to honour his mentor when he won the Oscar.
from russell crowe: the biography by tim ewbank and stafford hildred
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19 October is the feast of the Martyrs of Canada, also known as the North American Martyrs, who were eight Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons. They were ritually tortured and killed on various dates in the mid-17th century in Canada, in what is now southern Ontario, and in upstate New York, during the warfare between the Iroquois (particularly the Mohawk people) and the Huron. The martyrs are St. René Goupil (1642), St. Isaac Jogues (1646), St. Jean de Lalande (1646), St. Antoine Daniel (1648), St. Jean de Brébeuf (1649), St. Noël Chabanel (1649), St. Charles Garnier (1649), and St. Gabriel Lalemant (1649). This sculpture of the saints is in the church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Windsor, Ontario.