“Miyo Ginmaku ni (Mementos in the Cinema) ” WEB-Version Debut!
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　[Miyo Ginmaku ni (Mementos in the Cinema)], previously familiar in book-version, is newly available in WEB-version! In WEB-version, the summary of the story is omitted, and Sosyu Personal View could be read directly. We hope to have you utilize the convenient aiueo-order (the Japanese syllabary) button, and keyword search function.
　This time, I would like to introduce afresh, one of my favorite Sosyu Recommended Cinema [Passion] here. “Passion” means ”Sufferings” in Japanese. In the lifetime story of Jesus Christ narrated in the four Gospels of the New Testament, it is the story of the climax of his short lifetime, accepting extreme agony as human to his own self and met his death on the Cross. In this cinema, “Agony” is focused, and the agony of bloodstained Christ as well as the heart bursting agony of the Holy Mother Mary in seeing through the journey to death of her son, and this cinema is composed for the heart of the viewers to stand closely with their agonies.
　Vicariously experiencing this journey of the Cross through the cinema, such query comes into our mind, “Such agony, it is impossible for me…..” “Why is it necessary to suffer to this extent!?” However, you who are considerate and fond of Sosyu Recommended Cinema, I hope you will not avert your eyes away from the visual agony, and encounter with the hearts of those (Christ and the Holy Mother Mary) who even accepted the agony themselves.
　In fact, a hint to encounter with their heart is in the scene before starting the journey of the Cross. The cinema starts from the scene of Christ offering prayer to God at garden of Gethsemane. Christ calls God “Abba (Father),” and confessed his true feelings. “Save me from the traps they set for me” – It is a rightful heartfelt words of Human・Christ. Being “God’s Child,” yet the foreboding way of agony is much too heartbreaking for him being born on the earth. However, with such human weakness, he possessed the strength of heart to accept his fate with love–It is called faith. He concludes his prayer like this. “If it is possible, let this chalice pass from me. But let your will be done – not mine.” Thus Christ transcended humane・physical weakness by his heart. He overcame human boundary, and wholeheartedly accepted the giver of one’s Fate (God). And this fate was the agony itself, but this agony was not meaningless, I think he must have comprehended the underlying “Meaning” it shall bring forth.
　The Holy Mother Mary who lost her child, whom she gave birth before her eyes, also possessed the same heart as his son Christ. Seeing him being arrested and taken, she mutters, “It has begun, Lord.” “So, be it.” For the sake of the fatal “Meaning” behind the approaching death of her son, she has accepted a graver agony than death as his mother.
　Fate awaited Jesus Christ and the Holy Mother Mary was the agony of “Suffering.” However, the meaning-embracing Fate has the possibility of coming to anyone, including ourselves. On the contrary, there may be fate that could feel delight and happiness. However, delightful and happy things do not require transcending human limitation, instead they are things that could easily be done willingly. Rather, when we encounter with the heart of Jesus Christ and The Holy Mother Mary, and need to receive their power who have already overcame their Fate, is just the time when we try to grasp the meaning behind our agony. Shigyo Sosyu always says, “Don’t seek to be happy. Seek to be unhappy.” It is because we are being captured by the physical weakness, and we cannot grasp the true meaning behind the misfortune (Fate, which appears to be as such at first), and what truly invigorate the human heart.
　This time, I have introduced one work from Sosyu Recommended Cinema, however, at present, the total number of works uploaded in Web-version “Mementos in the Cinema” counts 760, so please enjoy the encounter with good cinema guided by your fate. And there are summaries of the respective cinemas in the book-version of [Miyo Ginmaku ni (Mementos in the Cinema)], We hope you will utilize them also.
 

“”Pasión – Suffering – “ Painted by Toshima Yasumasa