Dear Mel,

You are the best movie star that I've ever known.

Wish you all the best,

Ahmad

Aloha Mr. Gibson.
My dear wife and I have asked for our ten children and our 36 grandchildren to watch your interview with Mrs. Sawyer. (We have been married 47 blessed years) You were most definitely inspired and anointed by our Holy Spirit this evening. Praise is to God!

I am a Chor-bishop (like a village bishop) in the Eastern Catholic (Orthodox) Church. I am a priest /pastor in the Chaldean-Syric (Aramaic) Rite. We are a Patriarchal not Papal Church. Our family is really excited about your movie. We all have been for the past three months. I am personally purchasing tickets for our children, grandchild and 40 members of our parish, St. Michael the Archangel, here in Waipahu, Hawaii. I will pick up the tickets next Monday at the Consolidated Theater in Mililani, Oahu.

We have been desperately trying to get a VHS copy of your Passion of Christ movie trailer, to show our Wednesday bible study class and at our Divine Liturgy’s (Mass) this weekend. We would love to have all of our parishioners and their families attend the Wednesday evening (25 February) showing. I will pay for all their tickets, that’s how badly I want for all of my family, our parishioners and the members of the youth and adult organizations in our community that we volunteer to work with each week, to join us Ash Wednesday. .

My one big problem is that I want to show each of them the trailer that you have shown on television stations and the internet of the movie. It’s fantastic! Goose bumps stuff! We know as we know that our Lord will use the trailer’s to touch them all to come to the Wednesday showing with my family and parishioners. My problem is that I tried to copy the trailer off of the internet but, my computer won’t copy it. I guess that I don’t have the right software?

We thought we could copy a CD version from the internet and then convert it to a VHS tape. I have a small TV with a VCR player attached to the TV. I will take the TV and a VHS copy of the trailer to our Bible study class which I teach, show our folks the trailer. I then will get names of who would like to go to the movie and again I will buy their tickets, for the Wednesday evening showing at the Mililani Theater.

Last week I called the manager of the Mililani Theater and she told me that I can’t buy tickets until next Monday. You can bet your life that we will be the first ones at the theater the first thing Monday morning.

Our next goal is to buy tickets for all the youth and adult football players that we coach. I think that we are one of the last priests in the nation who volunteers to manage and coach a youth (8-13 year olds) and men’s (18 to 35 years old) tackle football teams. We have been doing it for 18 somewhat years. We have a web site at www.hawaiianwarriors.com. I am not only a parent, a priest and pastor but I also manage and head coach a couple of football teams on the Westside of Oahu.

One of our other goals with this movie, is to purchase tickets for as many of my youth and men football players who would like to join us next Wednesday. My men’s team has practice this Thursday and I want to take my small TV to our practice field, hook up my TV to my generator and show them the Passion trailer, IF I CAN BUY ONE or get hold of one of your movie trailers. We will then tell our players that I will buy their tickets if they want to come and join us next Wednesday. We will also have a special meeting of our youth team board members Friday and show them the video trailer and tell them that I will buy tickets for who ever wants to go with us Wednesday. We must give the Mililani Theater a specific count and check next Monday. That’s why I am so desperate in getting hold of a trailer. We have 6 days and nights to get folks interested in making the movie Ash Wednesday evening. We really don’t care how much it cost me personally; we believe that this film will change many, many lives.

As an Eastern Catholic Priest (Chore-Bishop) I just can’t wait for all of my loved ones, parishioners, players and friends to see this movie. I will bet my priesthood and life on this movie. I know as I know that it is Holy Spirit inspired. I also bet that the Blessed Mother is involved with the movie. I am not a nut case! I am a real priest, a senior pastor of a small Eastern Catholic Church here in Hawaii. A Hospice volunteer, have a homeless, streepeople ministry and have been managing and coaching a men and boys team for the past 18 years. We are trying to live the Bible and Mass in the community. But, Sir too be honest with you, this movie about the Agape” love of Jesus FOR ALL OF MANKIND, (like Mr. Gibson told Mrs. Sawyer this evening in the interview) will truly change lives.

The Movie the Passion of Christ is with out question most definitely inspired like the first bishops (Matthew, Mark, James, Luke, Peter and John) of the church were inspired the Holy Spirit as they wrote the Holy Gospels and Catholic Epistles.

Please Sir, if there is any way that you know how we can purchase a VHS tape of the Passion trailer in the next couple of days I would greatly appreciate it. I don’t know any other way to get a copy of the trailer.

Shalom, Yours in Christ

Fr. John
Most unworthy priest
808-676-4714

Mel,

We have lost all respect for you. We used to think were the greatest. Now it turns out that you are a racist pig. Obviously, your father had much more of an influence on you than you even realize. You can't even see where you are straying from the righteous path...brother.

What a horrible thing to say "A racist pig" without having seen the movie. Mel Gibson's depiction of the death of Christ is supposed to be accurate to the bible.

The death of Christ is historical it actually happened. If people are offended because someone is protrayed in a negative way so be it. It was a brutal murder, just as the holocaust was a brutal act.

We show movies with the holocaust all the time. But there is no uproar that they might cause hatred for the Germans. It happened!

Mel,

I can't wait to see "The Passion." I ordered tickets for it last night, and can't help but wait in anticipation for the movie next Wednesday.

I pray that all goes well for your movie. I truly believe that the Holy Spirit is going to change lives, because of the story of Christ, and because you chose to follow what you felt in your heart.

Don't give into all the "hate" that people spew towards you. You have Christian people, both Protestant and Catholic, who are behind you supporting you.

Keep up the good work, God Bless!

Mr. Gibson,

Ever since Braveheart you have been one of my favorite actors. It's still my favorite movie and I wish you the best in everything you do. The Passion looks real good and I'll be sure to watch it when it comes out. Anyway, I'm writing this email to D. Smith. I'm only a junior in college but people like you make me sick Smith. Racist pig? The ideas represented in The Passion is not Mel Gibson's, it is what is portrayed in the Bible man. So in essence you're actually saying the Bible has racist ideologies. Why don't you open your mind just a little bit more... brother.

The movie was wonderful-though horrific. When I cam out after wards I said the same thing the Pope was rumored to say; "Well it is as it was". I saw no hint of racism or anti-Semitism at all. Jesus was Jewish & crucified by Romans at Jewish insistence. Our Jewish neighbors were not around back then, so it can hardly reflect on them any more than the modern-day Spaniards should be blamed for the Inquisition.