UPDATE: Due to Popular Demand, the Film 'Man of God' Has Added a Showtime Date in the United States for March 28th

 

 

 

According to Fathom Events, the internationally acclaimed film Man of God, about the life of Saint Nektarios, will be released nationwide in the United States on Monday, March 21st at 7pm. Originally it is was one night only, but due to popular demand it has added a showtime date for Monday, March 28th at 7pm. For now, it will be playing in over 800 cinemas nationwide, though less on March 28th. You can purchase your tickets now. 

See where it is playing near you and purchase your tickets here. Group sales requests must be for a minimum 25 tickets., which can be made here.

 

See trailer and info here.

 

 

Dostoevsky and the Parable of the Prodigal Son

Thirty young men, dressed in shrouds (and thus, nearly naked), were led to the scaffold. The morning was bitter, the temperature below freezing, as they were compelled to stand for half an hour while the burial service was slowly read. Facing them stood the soldiers with their muskets. A pile of coffins was stacked suggestively in a corner of the yard. At the last moment, with the muskets actually at the shoulders of the guards, a white flag was waved, and it was announced that the czar had commuted the sentence to ten years' exile in Siberia. Several of the prisoners lost their reason under the strain; several others died shortly afterward. Fyodor Dostoevsky passed courageously through the ordeal, but it affected his nerves; he never recalled the experience without a shudder, and he referred to it with horror in several of his books.

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