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