☩ Walking in Light with Christ – Faith, Computing, Diary

A week ago, I’ve watched the The Name of The Rose or as originally entitled (Der Name der Rose).
The movie was recommended to my by a friend, stressing out that the movie has to deal more or less with Christianity topics in general and Catholicism in general.
Though the movie plot is based on Umberto Eco‘s novel, and he as an author is not among my favourite authors.
The movie is definitely worth seeing, if you’re Christian.
It’s also an interesting fact that the movie includes some celebrities like:
Sean Connery and Christian Slater .The whole story revolves around a mystery that emerged in Medieval Abbey in Italy.
For some strange reason, few suicides occur among monks.
That completely puzzles the monk, so the monks in the brotherhood decide to invite a monk who is famous for his good skills in solving mysteries.
The investigating monk (William of Baskerville) arrives at the abbey with his young disciple.
It’s interesting that William of Baskerville is a bit more thinker than a believer, so he refuses to accept the idea of the Abbot that the Devil is crawling the abbey and causes the suicides and misfortunes in the abbey.
After some deep investigation he comes to some conclusion and finds out that all the dead monks in the abbey has a black mark on their right hand finger as well as on their tongue.
This drives him to the idea that the monks were probably poisened.
A notable figure in the Movie is the Abbot who is an old monk whose possesing a vision/image of a prophet.
The old abbot is strongly against the logical approach in solving mysteries and completely trusts in God’s providence.
Monk William of Baskerville as being a logical nature enters in a dispute with the abbot, where they blazingly argue if the monks should laugh or not, should they be allowed to read books with text including laughter or life parody or not.
The abbot is firmly against the idea of the enlightenment of man through books and believes the Christian Monk enlightenment should be achieved mostly through experience in prayer thank in Books.
As the movie progress since the killings in the monastery continue without any solution, the Catholic church sends the Holy Inquisition to solve the mystery.
The inquisition makes the situation even worse and the mystery deepens even further on.
Eventually it turns out that this Abbey actually, has a secret passage leading to one of the largest libraries of it’s time.
The library holds thousands and thousand of books including many laughter books. As the abbot finds out about the discovery, he falls out in holy fear that the laughter books can emerge and be copied and multipled many times.
Opening the humour and laughter genry for the whole Church world as well for the laymen.
The superannuated monk realizes that this book transperancy could underneath the Church authority among people and therefore decides to burn the library putting on fire as he puts on fire the whole monastery tower containing the textbooks.
In the meantine the inquisition doesn’t sleep and judges for a burning at the stake 3 people.
Among which are two monks, who the inquisition classifies as schismatics and a young village girl, who is captured in the monastery right before one of the monstreous monks attempts to rape her.
The girl is innocent as she is completely illiterate and doesn’t have a clear idea on sin e.g. on what is right and what is wrong.
However at the end of the movie the girl, rightously survives by the Grace of the Virgin Mary, while the two dissenter monks are burnt out.

The movie touches one major theme in Christianity which is quite present even today, even though it’s probably out of question among Orthodox Christians.
It discusses the problem should we Christians read many spiritual books to drawn closer to God or should we achieve our holiness in concentrating on prayer.
It deals with the problem which is poisoning many christians today.
Should we base our lifes on science or should we completely consider science fallacy most of the time?
The movie stand point is the same as mine as well as in the Orthodox Church.
While it tells the story it shows that, actually at the end everything is in God’s hands, but however it presents that human factor is also important.
In other words I believe the movie teaches that, We should be moderate in all we do! and keep our faith while moderately evaluating our surrounding world.
Of course ultimately we should place our faith in our God and humble ourselves before him, but we shouldn’t act as a madman and we should also consider the logic which was also created by God in the beginning.