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This was fascinating...any idea as to if he is being baptized Catholic, Orthodox or possibly Anglican? God grant him many years! God bless, Gordo Russell Crowe Plans to be Baptized in Chapel of His Australian Ranch
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
NEW YORK � Russell Crowe, who is 43, says he's planning to be baptized.
"I'd like to do it this year," the Oscar-winning actor tells Men's Journal. "My mom and dad decided to let my brother and me make our own decisions about God when we got to the right age. I started thinking recently, `If I believe it is important to baptize my kids, why not me?"'
Crowe says the baptism will take place in the Byzantine chapel he built at his country ranch in Australia for his wedding to Danielle Spencer in 2003. The couple have two sons, 3-year-old Charlie and 1-year-old Tennyson.
"It is consecrated and everything," Crowe says in the magazine's December issue, now on newsstands. "Charlie was baptized there. And when Tennyson gets baptized there, I will, too."
Crowe � a reformed Aussie bad boy with a reputation for throwing temper tantrums � is more spiritual than people may think.
"I do believe there are more important things than what is in the mind of a man," he says. "There is something much bigger that drives us all. I'm willing to take that leap of faith."
Crowe, who won an Academy Award in 2001 for "Gladiator," co-stars with Denzel Washington in "American Gangster," a Universal Pictures release, which is now in theaters. His screen credits also include "A Beautiful Mind" and "The Insider."
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I do not know the answer to your primary question but I was especially delighted to read this.
"I do believe there are more important things than what is in the mind of a man," he says. "There is something much bigger that drives us all. I'm willing to take that leap of faith."
It is very troubling to be confronted by college students who essentially believe that there is nothing bigger than themselves. It's even more troubling to note that in most of my classes I have Muslim students who happily proclaim that not only do they have a remedy for Western Society's spiritual degradation but in a few years they will give it.
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I rather like the building. If I ever strike gold, it is my fantasy to be able to build a shrine somewhere with a nice chapel.
A Byzantine type of chapel shrine with icons of the 20th century martyrs is my little ecclesial day dream.
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How is that a Byzantine Chapel?
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How is that a Byzantine Chapel?
Ung It has a dome? I dunno, you got me on that one.
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How is that a Byzantine Chapel?
Ung It has a dome? I dunno, you got me on that one. Me too... Thanks, Pani Rose for the links! Gordo
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