If Mr. Corbett was baptized prior to this film with a Trinitarian formula, would it even matter anymore? ONE baptism, after all...

As he is from West Virginia, I have a feeling that he was baptized in some Christian denomination or another. Of course, we'll never know bar asking him directly.

The actors name who played the priest is Anthony Kandiotis, so that might explain his excellent Greek. I highly doubt that they would use a real priest to play the part when there are SO many actors out there who would do anything for a role in most any film.

In Christ,
mikey.

If I am not mistaken, one of the Fathers of the Church, I forget which one, when he was a child was playing Baptism with his friends, when a Bishop walked by, and was observing him and what he was doing. After questioning the Father and his friends, he pronounced them Baptised.

Among the sacraments:

Holy Orders consecrates a man to the service of the baptised community.

Marriage consecrates two people to a life of love within the community, blessed by the priest, within the community.

Penance re-consecrates a person to a role within the baptized community.

Anointing of the sick calls upon the Holy Spirit to provide succor to a sick person in the name of the community.

Holy Eucharist unites a person to the community by "comm-UNION" in the Body and Blood of Christ.

So, Baptism must consecrate the person to membership in the community through an initiation to membership in the community.

Baptism isn't magic. It is the spiritual form of initiation into membership into the ekklesia.

Movies are movies; theater is theater. Neither is "Church".

Blessings!

For some reason, I think that was St. Athanasius.

It was St. Athanasios.

Michael