Danny Hidalgo, dp for the Alberione film, has been featured along with Spirit Juice Studios on Sony's video equipment website! http://tinyurl.com/2vpwhyn

Check out Danny's work on music vid "Move Merchants," then arrow right to watch Rob Kaczmark's "To Be Born" trailer, a pro-life short. (I've seen a rough cut of the 17 min. film and the trailer doesn't even begin to do it justice.) We're so proud of Rob and Danny and so grateful to be working with them!

Danny is on the Appian Way here, recreating the Apostle Paul walking into Rome....

FR. ALBERIONE FEAST DAY (NOV. 26) RADIO INTERVIEW

ALBERIONE FILM--NORTHERN ITALY SHOOT

ALBERIONE FILM ROME SHOOT!

FILMING THE ALBERIONE FILM PART 2

SR. TIZIANA, PDDM, BEING FILMED AT SSP IN OHIO!

FANTASTIC SHOOT IN OHIO!

OHMYGOSH--everything went sooooo well! We really felt everyone's prayers! Deo gratias!
We really experienced the power of Fr. Alberione's "Pact with the Lord" to multiply our time.

All in one day filmed:

Fr. Jeff SSP--Fr. Alberione & future of media
Fr. Tom SSP (from IRELAND)--Alberione and families and HFI
Fr. Mike Harrington IGS--Alberione and the (diocesan) priesthood and IGS
Sr. Margaret PDDM (from PHILIPPPINES)--Alberione and the liturgy, PDDM and contemplation
Sr. Titiana PDDM (from ITALY)--recollections of Alberione, mission of PDDM
Zsolt and Eva Znagykaldi (from HUNGARY)--Alberione and married/family life as HFI

Then....a BAZILLION HFI members (many with their kids) telling why they like most about Alberione, how he has changed their lives, what he has to say to families today. These HFI member are incredibly PROFOUND. So many varied insights into Alberione. Very moving.

VIDEOS TO FOLLOW!

Sr. Helena Raphael FSP & Crew

Special thanks to:
Sr. Mary Antoinette FSP, Sr. Margaret Charles FSP, Sr. Catherine Bernadette FSP, Sr. Nancy Michael FSP, Sr. Margaret Joseph FSP, Sr. Mary Peter FSP, Dan Coulter HFI (chauffer!), Fr. Mike Harrington (chauffer!), Bill and Madeline Perales HFI (Happy 35th Wedding Anniversary!), Maronite Antonine Sisters--OH, Society of St. Paul--OH, Our Lady of Lebanon Shrine--OH, all the interviewees, and the list just goes on and on....

BROTHER AL REMEMBERS FR. ALBERIONE!

BLESSED JAMES ALBERIONE T-SHIRTS AVAILABLE!

Standard black T with white lettering. $10.00 + $5.00 postage. S, M, L, XL. Contact Sr. Helena: hburns@paulinemedia.com Put "ALBERIONE" in email subject line.

FIRST ROUGH, ROUGH DRAFT OF SCRIPT COMPLETED!!

I had to blur the photo so no one could plagiarize. Just kidding. My hand was shaking I was so excited.

TEXAS: DON'T MESS WITH IT

Good friends in Texas have given a generous donation toward the film! Many thanks!


We are gearing up to film at the Holy Family Institute* Conference in Ohio in September. Please pray that all the Pauline luminaries we want to film will be able to make it, especially the Sisters of the Divine Master!

Mother Scholastica
Foundress of Sisters of Divine Master

Check out these YouTubes from a previous Holy Family Institute Conference:

part I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGc-tCNWcgU

part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja0Z9fQ2HTU&feature=related
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*founded by Fr. Alberione

FLOOD BROTHERS DONATE TO FILM!

We are very grateful to our long-time friends, the Flood Brothers of Flood Brothers Disposal & Recycling--"Chicago's only Irish garbagemen"--who gave a very generous donation to "Father Alberione--Media Apostle"! http://www.floodbrothersdisposal.com/

FIRST DRAFT OF SCRIPT 50% DONE!

Thanks to the kindness of the Benedictine Sisters in Lisle, IL--I was able to do a mini-writers' retreat at their Sacred Heart Monastery!

FILMING THE ALBERIONE FILM!

FILMING BEGINS!

We are beginning filming today! Interviews with Brother Aloysius Milella, SSP, who lived with the Founder in Rome and was present at his death. Prayers appreciated. Pix and vids of the filming to follow!

FR. ALBERIONE CURED BY ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE

As we approach the beginning of the Novena to St. Paul (starts June 21 because the Pauline Family is granted their own feastday of St. Paul on June 30--no sharing with St. Peter! ha ha), I am at the point in writing the script where Fr. Alberione is cured from 100% fatal TB by St. Paul the Apostle. Fr. A was already in the sanitarium preparing for death.

Met a very depressed homeless man in the park while writing the script. His name is "Tim"--had a rosary around his neck. I told him that Timothy was a good friend of St. Paul. I told him I admired him for being able to make it on the streets and he said: "It's easy." I told him I wouldn't last a day.

ANOTHER KIND DONATION!

A Philosophy professor at St. John's University, NYC, who taught several Daughters of St. Paul just donated $1,000!!! Thanks, Dr. Redpath!!!

Today also happens to be the anniversary of the Church's approval of the Daughters of St. Paul!

TEMPERATURE'S RISING....

We just received a very kind and generous donation from a good friend of the Daughters! Check out the thermometer to your left!

WHEN FR. ALBERIONE STARTED THE FILM APOSTOLATE, 1937....

He looked for Fr. Robert Mozzachiodi and Father Aloysius Lenta, the two Paulines who passed as the most impassioned with regard to the cinema, and he said to them: "Let's go to the Basilica of St. Paul to pray for a very important grace." They went into the chapel of the Most Blessed Sacrament in the Basilica, where there were no kneelers or pews, knelt down on the marble pavement and remained there for more than an hour. "You can imagine the backache," Father Mozzachiodi wrote after having remained kneeling along side him for the whole time. The "very important grace" of which Alberione had spoken was the beginning of the apostolate of the cinema, as he was soon to reveal.

--from "James Alberione--Apostle for Our Times" by Fr. Luigi Rolfo, SSP

SCREENWRITING NIGHTMARES

I had a nightmare last night that I lost the whole (long-hand) Alberione script! AAAAARRRGGGGHHH

THE BLOG RE-LAUNCHES!

OK, folks--the film (and blog) launches in earnestness! I am now writing the script, due August 31! Big, fat prayers requested!

Recent goings-on regarding the film:

--Postcards made to advertise film/website/donations! (Want some? hburns@paulinemedia.com )

--Relevant Radio interview about "the making of" Alberione film: http://relevantradio.streamguys.us/Asx%20Files/MA%20Archive/MA20100506c.asx

--preview/trailer translated into Vietnamese! (other languages in the works!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX8aG9NLqco

--someone donated a large flat-screen monitor to show trailer at conferences (first up: Illinois Catholic Prayer Breakfast)!

--Sr. Margaret Joseph & Sr. Margaret Charles will be coming to Chicago to help raise funds for the film at the end of May!

--Possible golf AND baseball (Cubs) fundraiser?

--Possible collaboration with dePaul University?

OK--no more puttering. Down to the writing (Alberione calls writing--with all its many forms--"the heart" of the mission of the SSP/FSP).

Sr. Helena uses PILOT Precise V5 extra fines and STAPLES yellow letter-size pads. And her trusty HP Pavilion dv6436nr Entertainment Notebook PC.

GLORIA DEO + PAX HOMINIBUS

JAMES ALBERIONE--APOSTLE OF THE MEDIA

Follow us as we make a one-hour documentary on the life of Blessed Father James Alberione.

Coming soon!

GLORIA DEO + PAX HOMINIBUS

Be sure to visit: http://www.AlberioneFilm.com/ to view trailer!