I was 18 years old when I played the leading role in the feature film Thérèse.
One of my favorite parts of the whole experience was encountering the Body of Christ in a very real way. I was on my way to converting to the Catholic faith and had been mostly on my own. Through this project, I was welcomed into an enormous Catholic family.
I took a leap of faith, made the three-day drive across the country, and started working for Saint Luke Productions. I was nervous, but since seeing Maximilian at 14 years old, this was a dream come true for me.
Could I have imagined what God had planned for the next three years? Certainly not!
I just spent two and a half weeks with my daughter Mary, her husband Joseph and their newborn baby Emile. You may remember that, just last April, Mary was dancing with her dad at her wedding. Now she is a mom.
Have you ever played the game where you’re given two pictures that, at first glance, look the same, but then you have to find the differences between them? That’s kind of like what we’re doing with the Tolton editing project right now!
Imagine you’re the editor for this film. You’d have to be on the lookout for subtle changes.
Twenty years ago, a struggling young actor was walking through the lobby to his apartment. He noticed something lying on the top of the mailboxes, where people put things they wanted to give away. When he picked it up, he realized it was a Byzantine icon of Jesus as Divine Mercy. He couldn’t believe his eyes, because he had just prayed to God for such an image.
