Tell Gaiety Theatre and Colm Toibin… STOP the Blasphemy!

Public blasphemy demands Catholic rejection!

The blasphemous opera TESTAMENT, with the libretto (textual content) based on Colm Toibin’s 2014 play The Testament of Mary, will be playing at the Gaiety Theatre from October 8th to 10th.

And according to Media Research Center’s press report, in The Testament of Mary…

  • An alienated Mary flees the scene of her Son’s death in fear for her own life
  • Mary’s Son’s preaching sounded to her “false, and his tone all stilted, and I could not bear to hear him; it was like something grinding, and it set my teeth on edge.”
  • Mary proclaims of the death of Jesus only that “when you say that he redeemed the world, I will say that it was not worth it. It was not worth it.”
  • Mary is filled with bitterness and rage
  • Mary describes herself as “unhinged” and bubbling with contempt for her Son’s demented followers.
  • Mary’s point of view is that her Son’s followers must be stopped from making Jesus a god, “or else everything that happened will become a sweet story that will grow poisonous as bright berries that hang low on trees.”
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My Petition Message To:
Director of the Gaiety Theatre
and Colm Toibin; Librettist: TESTAMENT

With my whole heart, I protest against your showing of the new opera Testament from the 8th to the 10th of October, the libretto of which is based on Colm Toibin’s blasphemous book The Testament of Mary.

The Virgin Mary’s complete knowledge and love of the divinity of her Son Jesus and her foreknowledge of, permission for, and complete approval of His Gospel and Redemptive Sacrifice on Calvary are historical facts.

These facts deserve better than the blasphemous, misinformed, psychological wanderings you will present from Mr. Toibin’s proposed libretto. These include presenting Our Lady as bitter and claiming that Our Lord’s sacrifice on Calvary was “not worth it”.

The Gaiety Theatre should be ashamed to present such offensive and hurtful writings, and I urge you to stop this opera from showing and to apologise to Catholics and all people of goodwill.

Sincerely,