Perhaps its just my own sense calling to be a missionary, but The Mission is one of my favourite movies – one of the few I actually own and I watched it again today.

Its a beautiful movie, but also incredibly powerful with themes of incarnation, justice and love all thru it.

The penance / grace scene is brilliant when De-Niro drags his weapons all the way to the top of the falls to be set free by the Huarani. The closing scene is also a reminder that the gospel is bigger than all of us as the remaining children gather up the remains of the church and set off to start over.

But the big question it always raises for me is what would I do?… Would I be a Father Rodgriguez type and fight, or a Father Gabriel type and simply walk away?

I find both inspiring because they act on what they truly believe even at great cost. In the end neither ‘succeeds’, but the motives of both were honourable. Rodriguez believes that deadly force is ok to protect innocent people while Gabriel believes force should never be used. Both die.

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I think I’d probably side with Rodriguez…

If you haven’t seen it then do yourself a favour!