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1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 min. 22 sec.) ; 165457970 bytes |
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The Mission, is a four-part documentary series by the team who produced the extremely popular series The Abbey for Compass. The Mission is the story of missionaries in reverse, as three young Nigerian Catholic priests, who haven't volunteered, who have never left Africa before, are sent to save Tasmania's struggling Church. But can they fulfil The Mission?The series follows the young missionary priests as they travel from Equatorial Africa, Nigeria to Australia's island State, Tasmania. In part three, it's six months into The Mission and the three Nigerian missionaries are finding themselves part of a Tasmanian Catholic community looking for solutions to churches closing down, congregations dying out and no priestly vocations.On the isolated northwest coast Fr Felix has been spending many hours alone in his room, until he finds a young mate who introduces him to the world of Tasmanian wood chopping, BBQs and ferret racing. While Fr Felix gets a cultural dunking, down South Fr Christopher has his own Aussie experience. In contrast to the thousands he's used to in Nigeria, he's meeting with the three remaining members of Tasmania's once well known religious society, the Legion of Mary. Further questions arise for the priests as they discover that the Aussie celebrations for the birth of Christ mean the mayhem of the 'festive season'. For Fr Christopher Christmas Eve is also crunch time with Fr Brian. And even Fr Kene's unshakeable faith seems rocked by the sudden numbers of 'once a year Catholics'. Will the cultural divide prove too hard to cross as the priests go deeper into their mission in a distant land?PRODUCTION DETAILS:The Mission is a Roar Film Production for Compass, ABC TV. Compass Executive Producer: Rose Hesp; Writer / Director: Varcha Sidwell; Producers: Kath Symmons and Stephen Thomas; Narrator: Rebecca Gibney |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2010-06-13 at 22:05:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Christmas -- Social aspects.
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Church and state -- Catholic Church.
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Missionary stories.
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Priests -- Biblical teaching.
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Tasmania.
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Streaming video
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Davies, Annie, contributor
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Doogue, Geraldine, host
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Doyle, Andrew, contributor
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Doyle, Merran, contributor
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Ekeh, Felix, contributor
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Igboanua, Christopher, contributor
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Nichols, Brian, contributor
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Onwukwe, Kene, contributor
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Stanford, Colleen, contributor
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