Blasphemy Against Mother Mary in “The Chosen”

[Michie]

Fr. Dave Nix


The Chosen is a streaming video series on the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ with record-breaking viewership. They did a decent job in Season 1, but a scene found in Season 2, Episode 3 has major blasphemy against the Mother of Jesus. In this scene, a female disciple of Jesus named Rama is sitting next to Mother Mary and expresses her concern about how to know and follow Jesus in a better way. (As St. Mary Magdalene is also in this scene, I will refer to the mother of Jesus below as “Mother Mary.”)

Rama says, “I feel like I need to not make anymore mistakes.”

Mother Mary responds, “How do you think I felt?”

Andrew says, “You probably feel that everyday. No?”


“Not anymore,” Mother Mary says. “He always reassured me. God always made me feel like I shouldn’t be burdened.”

“So how did you feel when it happened?” asks Mary Magdalene.

“When what happened?” asks Mother Mary.

Continued below.
Blasphemy Against Mother Mary in “The Chosen”

 

[Chrystal-J]

I watched season one and two. There were a few lines here and there that made me scratch my head. I think in trying to modernize it, they created some flaws.

 

[Brother-Mike]

Given the never-ending swamp of garbage out there in TV land my vote would be to not necessarily get too bunched up because “The Chosen” offends my offense-o-meter. Be stronger

 

[Belinda Cooper]

I have not seen the show nor would I watch it. We want to know about Jesus, read the Bible. These shows are entertainment and will add and substract from scripture to get more views.

 

[HARK!]

MOD HAT ON

MOD HAT OFF​

 

[WarriorAngel]

Part 2a: The Script from Section A. She says, “I had to clean him off. He was covered in, uh, I will be polite. He needed to be cleaned.”
Part 2b: The Theology. All of the Church Fathers hold that the birth of Jesus was painless to both Jesus and Mary and miraculous, likening this to “the emergence of Christ from the sealed tomb, His going through closed doors, the penetration of the ray of sun through glass.”—Ott 206

It was written this way in Poem of the Man God.
But I am not gonna fight on the book. It was later banned by Bishops only because it's too advanced.

Otherwise: to get through those scenes, I have to believe that Mary was hiding herself because it was not her time.
That's how I got through the scenes... and over looked the human errors. It is the hardest part for me, but at the same time, Mary did not give her account til much later. As for the birth, again, human error and lost knowledge of Mary. But so far I like the rest.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Part 2a: The Script from Section A. She says, “I had to clean him off. He was covered in, uh, I will be polite. He needed to be cleaned.”
Part 2b: The Theology. All of the Church Fathers hold that the birth of Jesus was painless to both Jesus and Mary and miraculous, likening this to “the emergence of Christ from the sealed tomb, His going through closed doors, the penetration of the ray of sun through glass.”—Ott 206

It was written this way in Poem of the Man God.
But I am not gonna fight on the book. It was later banned by Bishops only because it's too advanced.

Otherwise: to get through those scenes, I have to believe that Mary was hiding herself because it was not her time.
That's how I got through the scenes... and over looked the human errors. It is the hardest part for me, but at the same time, Mary did not give her account til much later. As for the birth, again, human error and lost knowledge of Mary. But so far I like the rest.

Seems like an unforced error in the script. They could have easily produced something that would have pleased Protestants and not offended Catholics. I hope they are more careful in the future.

I never expected this series to be inerrant. Up to now they had been pretty good.

 

[Gnarwhal]

Fr. Dave Nix


The Chosen is a streaming video series on the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ with record-breaking viewership. They did a decent job in Season 1, but a scene found in Season 2, Episode 3 has major blasphemy against the Mother of Jesus. In this scene, a female disciple of Jesus named Rama is sitting next to Mother Mary and expresses her concern about how to know and follow Jesus in a better way. (As St. Mary Magdalene is also in this scene, I will refer to the mother of Jesus below as “Mother Mary.”)

Rama says, “I feel like I need to not make anymore mistakes.”

Mother Mary responds, “How do you think I felt?”

Andrew says, “You probably feel that everyday. No?”


“Not anymore,” Mother Mary says. “He always reassured me. God always made me feel like I shouldn’t be burdened.”

“So how did you feel when it happened?” asks Mary Magdalene.

“When what happened?” asks Mother Mary.

Continued below.
Blasphemy Against Mother Mary in “The Chosen”

I need to share this with my friends who like the show. I wonder if I should share it with my coworkers too because we've run stories on it and even had the director and star on the show for interviews. Roumi's supposed to be Catholic, as the lead he should've put his foot down on this.