![]() ![]() To believe is not to crucify intellect, not to believe in spite of the evidence, but in light of the evidence.”įirst impressions the audience offered were resounding applause, and comments that the film excerpt was “very powerful ” the evening included two question-and-answer periods bookending the presentation. Pointing out that the linen burial cloths are mentioned three times in John’s Easter Sunday Gospel account, Father Dalton asked, “Why is this significant? When the Gospel zigs when you expect it to zag, pause and ask questions … What did they see? In the Catechism, it states that it’s the condition of the empty tomb that caused to believe. “To the non-believer, Jesus is a criminal … who received the most shameful death in the world and becomes the light of all civilization – how did that happen? … I see this movie as starting in kind of a dark place and ending up in a light place.” Throughout that journey, Orlando examines what the Shroud is, consulting experts to piece together the evidence the Shroud seems to contain. “I’m taking the Stations of the Cross and comparing them to the physical evidence on the Shroud,” Orlando added. Viewing photo negatives of the Shroud in the Shroud Center at the Santiago Retreat Center in California, Orlando’s relationship with the world’s most studied archeological artifact was “a face-to-face encounter,” he said. “ aren’t at war one another – they’re mutually illuminated.” “Faith and reason are two wings by which the human spirit ascends to the contemplation of the truth,” Father Dalton continued. People came from around the Diocese to the Co-Cathedral to view the film excerpt, to offer their reactions and to listen to Orlando and Father Dalton – an American priest and Shroud expert who teaches at the Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum in Rome – discuss the particulars of what is known about the centuries-old cloth emblazoned with the figure of a crucified man, and what is yet to be discovered. PHOTO GALLERY: The Shroud: Face to Face Presentation Research for both his book and the documentary led Orlando – a filmmaker, author and Princeton Theological Seminary graduate student – from his home base of Princeton across the world to discover what the purported burial shroud of Jesus revealed about the man himself. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral, Freehold, was a glimpse into a project Robert Orlando has been pursuing for nearly two years. The other opportunity is that we look with eyes of faith we turn to Scripture, and ask ‘what does God reveal?’”Ī 15-minute teaser from his upcoming film “The Shroud: Face to Face” presented Sept. The first is science, which is the way into the truth of who this man is… to understand him in an empirical way. “The world has two ways of answering this question. “The central question that came out of the Shroud film and the book is ‘who do you say that I am?’” said Legionnaires of Christ Father Andrew Dalton.
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