Kävin äsken elokuvissa tyttäreni (30 v) kanssa. Operaatio Ave Maria tarttui harvaan verkkooni Ursan Tähdet ja Avaruus -lehden 3/2026 Mikko Suomisen artikkelin kautta. Edellinen elokuvateatteri-kokemukseni taisi olla Dyyni, se kahteen tuntiin typistetty 1984-painos. Tämä oli pitempi, ja takarivissä oli leppoisaa nuokkua, mitä nyt liian lujaa soinut musiikki ja tehosteet harmillisen usein kiusasivat (korvatulpat unohtuivat).

Kannattiko käydä? Riippuu mihin vertaa. Aika edullisiahan elokuvat ovat vaikka konsertteihin tai teatteriesityksiin verrattuna, mutta olisi lipun hinnalla saanut hyvät pohjalliset tai 8 Kaurajuntta-leipää (tuore Prisman kuitti sattumoisin käsillä). Lisätietoja filmistä löytyy tuolta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary_(film)

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Quote of the day, 21 May: St. Raphael Kalinowski

My job at Kursk was to draw up the necessary plans for [construction of a railway line from Kursk, Russia to Odesa, Ukraine]. It was necessary for me to make many journeys to Putywl [Ukraine] and other places to pick up statistical and geographical ideas of which I was in need. Nowhere did I find a Catholic church…

At Kursk I lived near the Orthodox Church. I only set foot in there once, invited to a wedding by a family who were known to me. Perhaps here I could do some praying. That evening, the thought of the cemetery which was close to my room, and the cry of the owls that inhabited the neighbourhood, exercised a salutary impression on my mind.

The old sacristan who was a very honest man became a friend. When I returned after a long absence and asked him how he was, he would reply, “I am very well, thanks be to God and to your prayers.”

In all this expedition I can report only one benefit, not from my work, but from a little religious book, an anthology of prayers to the Blessed Virgin. It had been given to me by a young Polish man who helped me draw up the plans and it had been a keepsake of his mother.

The reading of this little book had a great influence on me. It instilled in me particularly a lively trust in the intercession of the Holy Virgin. One remark on the efficacy of the Hail Mary remained deeply engraved on my memory, and on one occasion when I found myself exposed to imminent danger, I recited the Ave and I emerged safe and sound.

What a powerful weapon prayer is! How easy it is to obtain everything through the intercession of Mary! What efficacious means of salvation Holy Church places in our hands through these religious books, which open the eyes of our souls to the splendor of divine truth!

Saint Raphael Kalinowski

Memoirs, ch. 2

Tierney, T  2016,  Saint Raphael Kalinowski: Apprenticed to Sainthood in Siberia,  Balboa Press  Australia.

Featured image: Antique Russian Orthodox icon. Image credit: kalichka / Adobe Stock (Asset ID#: 148978092).

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