Shia LaBeouf: Roman Mass Doesn't Try to Sell Me a Car
Shia LaBeouf revealed that he reverted to Catholicism after studying religion for his movie on Padre Pio which will be forthcoming in September.
He told Bishop Barron in a YouTube.com video (August 25) that he has been struggling with thoughts of helplessness and suicide. His former girlfriend accused him of abuse. He was dropped from a number of projects. The movie on Padre Pio saved his career, “I had nowhere to go. This was the last stop on the train."
He lived with Capuchin friars to learn his role, “When I got there, a switch happened,” he recalled. “It was like someone tricked me into it.”
LeBeouf said that the Roman Mass was key in both his conversion and when playing Padre Pio, “The Latin Mass affects me deeply. Deeply.” Barron asked back, “How come?” “Because it feels like they're not selling me a car.”
Eucharists with guitars feel for LeBeouf as if they would push an idea.
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“Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects but with a quiet hate, not troublesome and restless.” - Padre Pio ☩
One of the many interesting things that struck me is Shia was coming from a place of chaos and was attracted to the experience not the rules. Gives the lie to the narrative we constantly hear, the only ones attracted to TLM are rigid personality types.
What is of the world, the world never opposes. What is of God, the spirit of the world opposes, maligns, persecutes, and crucifies.
"You duped me, Lord." He's in good company. In the full Robert Barron interview, they have a great conversation about homilies around 1 hour, 19 minutes.
This story brought me to tears. I was hopeful for his conversion once I heard he was taking the role. Praise be to the Holy Trinity!
It's worth noting that, to many of the "experts", LaBeouf is simply 'nostalgic' or "rigid". But from his own testimony, he credits traditional Catholicism—and in particular, the Latin Mass —with saving his life from the brink of despair. It's time for the "experts" to listen.
Didn’t he also say that repenting for his sins and receiving God’s forgiveness was important? The modernist church basically believes that sin doesn’t exist, perhaps apart from smoking or owning a gun. Traditional Catholicism preaches, and effects, real forgiveness. It’s rigid in insisting upon redemption, rather than tolerance/acceptance.
POpe Francis and his people all but say that sin doesn't exist, that everyone will be saved. Padre Pio preached the opposite. He is a great Saint, and Shia LeBeouf is a great actor in this role. He saved his soul, and his career with this magnificent portrayla of a great Saint. Shia's love for the Roman Mass should be a red flag for Francis and his trolls, that they will not win in the persecution of the LAtin Mass, or CAtholic tradition. This film will bring people to God and to the LAtin MAss. Padre Pio was with Shia leBeouf in this role. Otherwise, he would not have been so deeply affected. It would just have been another role to play.
My personal story, I was saved from suicidal depression when I understood that sin was killing me spiritually but God does not leave us there (contrary to Luther). With moral agency comes true freedom.
"He saved his soul," Kenjiro M. Yoshimori
He's not saved yet. He must persevere to the end and only then will the fate of his soul be known.
The Traditional Latin Mass is the Roman Mass, not the liberal, modernist, protestant Novus Ordo.
Here is the original Mass of Padre Pio:
Holy Mass celebrated by Padre Pio Heaven on Earth: