Reviewer out of his mind

This is a note concerning movie capsules (April 4, 2014) on “God’s Not Dead” (Freestyle). This was a bone-headed review! The unnamed reviewer (how convenient) wrote the movie was “ineffective.” Well, I was really moved by it for it was a heartfelt drama of David (young college student) taking on Goliath (atheistic professor). The unnamed reviewer called the movie a “stacked-deck drama” — well, the bullying college professor (there are many in real life) set up everything in his favor, quoting only atheists, and the statement “even faith-filled moviegoers will sense the claustrophobia of the echo chamber within which this largely unrealistic story unfolds” is gobbilly gook! Whoever wrote this piece sounds to me like a smug know-it-all who is in love with his sense of being “so cool.”

Fr. Frederick J. Klettner
Franklin, Tenn.

Tribute to a parish priest

Thank you, Fr. Nick Zukowski, for 21 years of utter loyalty and love and ministering to us, your flock at St. Mary Queen of Creation and for your great homilies daily and on weekend liturgies. Thank you for working so hard for us as to even having fallen under your cross in having a heart attack which God healed you from and even now God is relieving you from the great load by giving you a smaller and lighter cross to carry at St. Martin de Porres, which is warmly welcoming you with open arms. Thanks for administering untiringly the sacraments of baptism, Eucharist, confirmation, matrimony, anointing of the sick and reconciliation — all with gentleness, compassion, mercy and love. Thanks for beautifying the interior of St. Mary’s with the large gold crucifix and luminous mysteries of the rosary wooden plaques under the skylight as well as for the ark-of-the-covenant-like angels adoring and protecting the Eucharist in from the chapel as if to ever guard the Real Presence. Thanks for your sense of humor and delightful stories and lessons — some taken from great movies — even the latest “The Son of God” to embellish your homilies and inspire us. But most of all, thanks for your love for all of us — for spiritually laying down your life each day for us with devotion, care and selfless devotion. God bless you in your new assignment. Please know you are taking our hearts with you and that there is no separation in Christ Jesus. Likewise, we also thank Fr. Saji Mukkoot, who truly supported your ministry tirelessly even while handling his own Indian parish work. We will miss you both so much! Amen!

Pio Peter Zammit
New Baltimore