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🗓️ 14 May 2015
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Father Mike offers a reflection on Avengers: Age of Ultron. Totalitarian governments tried to protect people by offering them comfort and security. Fr. Mike quotes Pope Benedict XVI, who said “you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.”
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0:00.0 | My name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents. |
0:03.0 | So I was talking with someone recently and another, how many buses do we need? |
0:07.0 | This is not a big town. |
0:09.0 | These are their hybrids. |
0:11.0 | The buses are hybrids. |
0:12.0 | They run off of cornyle so when they drive by it smells like French fries. |
0:19.0 | So I recently had the opportunity to go watch the second Avenger's movie called The Age of Ultron. |
0:25.0 | And I thought it was great. |
0:26.0 | I thought it was lovely. |
0:27.0 | I thought it was brilliant and not brilliant. |
0:30.0 | But it was a fun superhero movie. |
0:32.0 | That's kind of the point of the superhero movies in so many ways. |
0:36.0 | But I read some message boards in some reviews that people had given. |
0:40.0 | They said, I expected it to be darker. |
0:42.0 | I expected it to be scarier. |
0:43.0 | You know, a great way to kill joy is to have expectation. |
0:46.0 | I invite you to go into the movie thinking it'll be what it is. |
0:50.0 | Basically, it is the same movie. |
0:53.0 | There was a 12 year old girl who went to, as the First of Injures. |
0:56.0 | The 12 year old girl who went to a pre-screening of Avengers 2. |
0:59.0 | And she came out and she said, well, the first movie, The Avengers, |
1:02.0 | teamed up to defeat a mindless bunch of aliens. |
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