TOS036 Watching the Saints-Lesser Known Saints with Patti Brunner  for audio: TOS036: Watching the Saints – Lesser Known Saints – Truth of the Spirit (podcast) | Listen Notes

Watching the Saints – Lesser Known Saints. Join Patti Brunner to look at the lives of Saint Joseph of Cupertino, Saint Josephine Bakhita and St. John Bosco. It was quite easy for movie makers to choose these three saints as subjects for their movies because of their unique stories: Joseph of Cupertino: a dim-witted flying monk, Bakhita: a tattooed slave, and John Bosco: a gatherer of delinquent boys. The movies artfully portray the lives of these saints and Patti Brunner will give you some of the truth behind the poetic license of the moviemakers about these inspiring saints. This is the final and fourth of a series of movie reviews on movies about saints.

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TOS034 Watching the Saints-Patrick and Augustine with Patti Brunner 

for audio: TOS034: Watching the Saints: Patrick and Augustine – Truth of the Spirit (podcast) | Listen Notes 

Episode TOS034  Truth of the Spirit’s “Watching the Saints”. Join Patti Brunner for Christian movies review to look at a couple of saints whose movies are based on their own account of their lives.  Today we would call them autobiographies but both St. Augustine’s and St. Patrick’s were called “Confession” and seem to be a “tell all” to the Church.  Both of these men had events in their youth that were scandalous which makes their conversion stories more interesting.  See the contrasts and similarities of these saints who were contemporaries of one another.  A closer look at St. Augustine and St. Patrick shows us how one person who turns their face to God can make a difference as we continue to honor them 1700 years later..

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TOS033 Watching the Saints-Noah and Joan of Arc 

for audio: TOS033: Watching the Saints: Joan of Arc and Noah – Truth of the Spirit (podcast) | Listen Notes

Truth of the Spirit episode TOS033  Watching the Saints-Noah and Joan of Arc. Join Patti Brunner for an entertaining movie review series that targets saints.  Patti has discovered that the ratings given to modern movies by the motion picture industry don’t always give the truth about the moral objections to the screening.  She recommends the USSCB Movie Guide. This Truth of the Spirit episode of Watching the Saints finds the glaring flaws as Patti looks at various movie versions about Noah who was instructed by God to build an ark to save mankind from total destruction during a world-wide flood and others about a young teenaged peasant girl, Joan of Arc, who was told by God to save France by standing up for truth above destructive evil and political forces and leading soldiers into battle.  By weeding out misleading videos of these characters and watching truthful stories these heroic characters you will be encouraged to follow their examples of obedience to God despite opposition by forces of evil.

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