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A Time For Miracles [VHS]

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In this day and age when the majority of movies consist of explosions, profanity, and lame plots, it's nice to go back a few years and enjoy a film like "A Time for Miracles." Based on the life of Elizabeth Seton, this movie encompasses the difficult aspects of doing God's Work and accepting the consequences from it. A very young Kate Mulgrew gives a believable performance as Elizabeth, although her old-age make-up lacks considerably. John Forsythe and Lorne Greene also star rounding out a rather high caliber cast for a work of this nature.

This movie shows the hardship that Catholics had in the early 1800s. It shows, as well, that a determined believer can reach to one's goal of helping the public by educating their children and instilling in them the goodness that pays at the end.

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie of the life of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint. It is very well done and is well suited for family viewing as few films are today.

While the movie is pleasant and easy to watch, there certainly is suffering in Mother Seton's life when she is widowed while so young and later loses two of her children. She was a great example to those who knew her. Mother Seton died in 1821 at the age of 46, only sixteen years after becoming a Catholic. She was canonized on September 14, 1975.

The story was very close to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's life. I would highly recommend this DVD to anyone who wants to know more about this American saint's life.

I highly recommend this movie. This is something to watch over and over.

When watching religious movies, I watch carefully that their demonstrating traditional ways and this movie is. It keeps very close to her life and doesn't add false information as in some.

Die ganze Geschichte hat mich gelangweilt. Ich fand keinen Draht zu ihr, wie man so schön sagt. Wäre Kate Mulgrew nicht mit von der Partie, ich hätte den Streifen nicht bis zum Ende durchgehalten.
Filmisch ist nicht viel daran auszusetzen. Die Kostüme sind gut und die Darsteller passabel.

"A Time for Miracles" is an underrated gem. Showing a bit of American history that is often neglected, and showing Kate Mulgrew as a determined woman who was strong willed, clever, not afraid of anyone, and was fond of coffee. No wonder she was cast as Katherine Janeway.

This is sweet family fare, but that is what it is -- sweet. Where is the dirt of the 18th century? Where are the stinks and the vile smell -- even from the Roman curia?

Unfortunately this all reeks of one of Kate Mulgrew's "Irish Spring" commercials.

Saints aren't usually this nice. They are rebels who seek not only to serve God, but to upturn the status-quo. Mother Seton seems to work with the status-quo quite well. Where is the persecution? Where is the burning anger a saint often feels?

Isn't there more?

Just too sweet for my taste.

This is a remarkably uncatholic movie that is supposedly about a famous Catholic. St. Bonaventure said that those who do not have a devotion to Our Lady will die in their sins and be damned for all of eternity. Nevertheless, Elizabeth Seton is never portrayed as having a devotion to Our Lady and indeed, never even says one hail mary that I could see. Other Catholic teachings are notably absent. The acting and production values are lamentably poor. Read "Butler's Lives of the Saints" or "The Baltimore Catechism" instead.