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“Just as Keanu Reeves fought against the powers of evil, a priest comes to help people fight against sin. There is a battle out there,” explained Father Jonathan Meyer, associate director of youth and young adult ministry for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
He made the comments in an interview with Catholic News Service about a new vocations recruitment poster being distributed by his archdiocese.The poster, which is modeled after an advertisement for the movie “The Matrix,” is the brainchild of Father Meyer. It features a priest in full cassock — and the requisite Roman collar — holding a cross in one hand and a rosary in the other. And he is wearing sunglasses.
That simple juxtaposition provides the mood Father Meyer said he was aiming for when creating the poster — he wanted to say something about today’s seminarian.
Fr. Meyer is an awesome preacher! I’ve heard him on several occasions, and I’ve yet to hear somebody who can discourse on the Gospel & the Catholic faith the way he can.
Amen, Carlos! I am a personal friend of Fr. Meyer. He one the coolest and holiest people you will ever meet. I think the Hatred that his flying around the web is just dispicable! People need to get a grip!
Well, can’t vouch for what people are saying elsewhere. My basic premise is irreligion … And yet admiration for a marketing campaign well done. I have to commend Meyer for a remarkably witty point of view. Even if I feel that today’s seminarians will perhaps face a less colorful reality. So it’s a sales pitch. And if you believe in a religion that essentially has supernatural beings, angels and demons, heaven and hell, saints and so forth, I guess this isn’t that much of a stretch in reality.
I really like this poster. I was wondering though, where can I aquire one? I’ve been looking around alot, and i can’t find anywhere that i can call, visit, or anything really. I’m looking forward to getting one, but i can’t find one. I THink it portrays the catholic preist hood in a very positive way. I Believe the matrix had alot of religion in the movie. Neo meaning new, and jesus starting a new age belief.
"The oracle told me i would fall in love with a man, and that man would be the one."
Thats really not a far stretch, Jesus rose from the dead, he vanquished demons, and he came not to save the ones that believed, but those who didn’t. Neo did the same thing.
Has it occured to anyone to reflect on what it really means to portray a priest as Neo? In the movies, Neo kills people…he kills a lot of people. He also has sex with Trinity in the second movie…are they married? It’s disturbing to me that the Church would want to model a priest on Neo as opposed to Jesus Christ who practiced a life of nonviolence and said love your enemies and forgive those that persecute you.
I did reflect on that but didn’t say anything since my stance as an atheist kind of says it all. I am mostly amused by the poster for the same reasons. It’s NOT what Christianity is supposed to be about, at least not in my text books. Nor does it accurately represent the entertainment value of being one of the clergy.
And what is next, priests in bikini? Priests in combat fatigues? I find the entire approach typically "American", commercial, self-centered and slightly deceitful.
As if the entertainment industry is to be worshipped and is inseparable from civil society. As if the propagation of religion is so important that one is ready to compromise and corrupt the very ideals that it is supposed to be about. Not that I could care less where Christianity goes and I’m not one of those romantics that perceive culture, national and religious, as static either. I’m just saying.
As for non-violence, I don’t know. Didn’t a certain President claim that God told him to invade Iraq. So much for peace and non-violence. And that is just the contemporary tip of the iceberg. My point is that religion, and Christianity in particular, has a long history of persecution, torture, war and crusading. But like with this campaign, they’re being hypocrites about it.
Such a great idea. Regardless of what others say. The movie was very representative of Jesus and God. It really is a cool poster. Marriage can tie in here, because it can also be a vocation, to be a parent to please the Heavenly Father. Kind of interesting to think about.