James Alberione Apostle of the Media

FATHER ALBERIONE STATUE IS HERE!

2011-06-17T08:59:00.000-07:00

READ FR. ALBERIONE'S BOOKS ONLINE!

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GOT ALBERIONE?

ALBERIONE'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
(he writes in 3rd person: "he")

"ABUNDANTES DIVITIAE GRATIAE SUAE"--"HOW RICH GOD IS IN GRACE":

http://www.alberione.org/operaomnia/download/pdf/ad_eng.pdf

ALBERIONE'S TRINITARIAN SPIRITUALITY:

"DONEC FORMETUR CHRISTUS IN VOBIS"--"UNTIL CHRIST BE FORMED IN YOU"

http://www.alberione.org/operaomnia/download/pdf/df_eng.pdf

ALBERIONE'S NOTES FOR SEMINARIANS:

"NOTES IN PASTORAL THEOLOGY" (1913)

http://www.alberione.org/operaomnia/download/pdf/atp_eng.pdf

ALBERIONE ON ST. PAUL:

"ST. PAUL, INSPIRATION AND MODEL"(A Month with St. Paul, prayers to St. Paul, etc.)http://www.alberione.org/operaomnia/download/pdf/APim_eng.pdf

ALBERIONE'S 10 HOURS OF ADORATION ON THE HOLY BIBLE:

"READ THE SACRED SCRIPTURES--THEY SPEAK TO YOU OF JESUS CHRIST" (1933)http://www.alberione.org/operaomnia/download/pdf/ls_eng.pdf

ALBERIONE'S THOUGHT ON MEDIA:

(also: formation for Catholics in media, includes film, radio, etc.)

"THE PUBLISHING APOSTOLATE"

http://www.alberione.org/operaomnia/download/pdf/ae_eng.pdf

ALBERIONE'S EARLY THOUGHT ON WOMEN AND EVANGELIZATION:

"WOMAN ASSOCIATED WITH PRIESTLY ZEAL" (1910)http://www.alberione.org/operaomnia/download/pdf/da_eng.pdf

ALBERIONE TO HIS LITURGICAL / CONTEMPLATIVE / ARTIST SISTERS:

"TO THE PIOUS (SISTER) DISCIPLES OF THE DIVINE MASTER" (1946)

http://www.alberione.org/operaomnia/download/pdf/apd46-47_eng.pdf

ALBERIONE TO HIS LITURGICAL / CONTEMPLATIVE / ARTIST SISTERS:

"TO THE PIOUS (SISTER) DISCIPLES OF THE DIVINE MASTER" (1947)

http://www.alberione.org/operaomnia/download/pdf/apd46-47_eng.pdf

RIP: FR. ANTONIO SPECIALE, SSP

2011-06-11T20:43:00.000-07:00

Fr. Antonio Speciale, SSP, 89, whom we interviewed for the documentary, was Fr. Alberione's personal secretary for 20 years and kept a "Diary" of Alberione's daily activities.

RIP, dear Fr. Speciale (he really was "special"). When he came to be interviewed, he had two holycards each for us. He didn't want makeup or to take his glasses off: "It doesn't matter what the outside looks like! It matters what's inside! If you love Jesus more than me, you will go higher in heaven!"

FR. ALBERIONE STATUE! 12"

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Fun fact: Fr. Alberione produced the first color film ever done in Italy!

TRANSLATING THE ALBERIONE FILM--PART 1

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TRANSLATING THE ALBERIONE FILM--PART 2

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FAKE NUNS HELP REAL NUNS MAKE MOVIE

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NYPD GIVE ALBERIONE FILM A LEG UP!

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Must-read! http://paulinefaithways.blogspot.com/

BUY A COOKBOOK FOR THE ALBERIONE FILM!

2011-03-23T21:22:00.001-07:00

You can help us make the "Alberione Film" in an easy, fun, yummy way!
Just buy this cookbook!
"Bless Us, O Lord...."
Only $20 (includes postage)!

GREAT MOTHER'S DAY GIFT!!!

This cookbook includes 640 unique recipes from 40 countries and comes with a built-in stand!

(Compiled by the Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary, Palatine, IL)

Tell your friends!

Send cash, check or money order (we also accept Visa/MC) to:

Sr. Helena Raphael Burns, fsp
Pauline Books & Media
172 N. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60601
helraphaelfsp@aol.com

Checks payable to: Daughters of St. Paul
(memo can be: Alberione Film)

PAULINE BOOKS & MEDIA and SPIRIT JUICE STUDIOS

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Sr. Helena Burns (writer-producer) and Rob Kaczmark (director, production manager)

were intereviewed on cable TV
(on Chicago's mighty south side, which, contrary to Jim Croce, is NOT the baddest part of town)

$2,500 for Film!

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Thank you, St. Joseph!
St. Joseph sold his family's statue for us during his month!
Ite ad Joseph!

REJOICE WITH US!

2011-02-18T20:03:00.001-08:00

The usual suspects after general audience with Papa B16! (October 2010 filming)
Rob Kaczmark (director), Sr. Anne (translator, charism consultant)
Sr. Helena (writer, producer), Danny Hidalgo (director of photography)

1. The Alberione SCRIPT, she is FINISHED! It was painful cutting down 60 pages to 30 pages. There was blood all over the script. But this is only an INTRODUCTION to this marvelous media apostle, right? Better leave 'em wanting more! Not easy squeezing 87 years of an extremely full life of the Founder of 10 congregations into so little time. Had to use a GINORMOUS shoehorn.

2. The filming of INTERVIEWS is finished! We gots plenty!

3. INTERNATIONAL interest is rising, and Paulines are already talking about dubbing the finished product into SPANISH and PORTUGUESE!

4. Ask about our FUNDRAISER in CHICAGO, Sunday, May 29, 3pm! We're booking The "Late Nite Catechism" one-woman interactive show at the Royal George (we chose the show "Sunday School Cinema") (tickets are the regular $30): hburns@paulinemedia.com.

Thanks for all your (continued) prayers! We're praying for you also! Fr. Alberione blesses you from Paradise.

FILMING THE ALBERIONE FILM: ST. LOUIS CREW IN CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 2011

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SECOND ROUGH DRAFT OF SCRIPT FINISHED!

2011-01-16T13:29:00.000-08:00

Here's a Russian icon (OLVladimir) and FIRST CLASS RELIC OF ALBERIONE (don't ask for them, they're not available) under whose combined gaze I finished the second rough draft of the script.

Note the pens illustrating the lines from Alberione's prayer to the Queen of Apostles for the Consecration of the Apostolate: "Today we consecrate to you all our pens, machines, undertakings and the fatigue of daily work...."

The untyped portions of the script will now be typed up and the whole thing handed in for approval, fact-checking, etc. The only snag? At present, the documentary is about 12 hours long! Ha ha ha.

2010-11-24T19:11:00.000-08:00

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

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ALBERIONE FILM--NORTHERN ITALY SHOOT

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ALBERIONE FILM ROME SHOOT!

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FILMING THE ALBERIONE FILM PART 2

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

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FANTASTIC SHOOT IN OHIO!

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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!

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BLESSED JAMES ALBERIONE T-SHIRTS AVAILABLE!

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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!!

2010-08-15T18:54:00.000-07:00

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

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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
_____
*founded by Fr. Alberione

FLOOD BROTHERS DONATE TO FILM!

2010-07-24T00:08:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-07-24T00:03:00.000-07:00

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!

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FILMING BEGINS!

2010-07-07T07:07:00.000-07:00

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

2010-06-19T15:31:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-06-15T14:49:00.000-07:00

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....

2010-06-13T14:29:00.001-07:00

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....

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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

2010-05-14T12:42:00.001-07:00

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

THE BLOG RE-LAUNCHES!

2010-05-11T12:41:00.001-07:00

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

2010-02-22T21:15:00.000-08:00

Coming soon!

GLORIA DEO + PAX HOMINIBUS

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