Bev Keane quotes from Midnight Mass

Father Paul

[after he is revived] I'm starving. I don't remember ever being this hungry before.

Bev Keane

It makes sense. Always starving after a long trip, and you had quite the journey. That's for sure. Precious few have taken the road you took.

Father Paul

I feel everything that is happening here is a matter of faith, not science. So I don't want to cloud this area with any doubt. Something is happening, shifting inside of me. I remember when I was younger I experienced times of great spiritual growth. But that was just, it's nothing like this. It's like I can feel God move inside me.

Bev Keane

We can keep this quiet for the moment. But Monsignor, we should show them. Tell them who you are. Don't hide your light under a bushel. That's one of the parables, and it was important enough that Matthew, Mark, and Luke all wrote it down. We'll do what you ask, of course. And if you don't think you're ready, well that's OK. Jesus revealed himself slowly after resurrection, but what a wonderful revelation it will be to know their own dear Monsignor Pruitt was restored by an angel of God. Think about it.

Father Paul

It will be. In God's time.

Bev Keane

There's no other kind, is there?

Father Paul

[about Riley] He's gone.

Bev Keane

I'm sorry.

Father Paul

It was a gift. It's a gift. He spat it out.

Bev Keane

Who knows who he talked to all night? Who know what else he has done to deprive others of God's graces? Judas was part of God's plan too. Judas was part of it. The Acts of the Apostles. There will be others like Riley, there always are, who try to poison the ears of the faithful against their God. But tonight, let's have faith in our church. Let's share everything we have.

[when the resurrected begin attacking those who didn't drunk the poison] Monsignor said we should close the doors before they wake up. So we can guide them, orient them, so this wouldn't happen.

Bev Keane

I love him. I truly do. But look, it happened nonetheless, as it was meant to. You know what they say, "Man plans, God laughs." Those who have been coming to church and taking Communion, they have nothing to fear tonight. As for the rest of them, let God sort them out.

Annie Flynn

Bev, I want you to listen to me. Because your whole life, I think you've needed to hear this...You aren't a good person.

Bev Keane

Well, that was uncalled for.

Annie Flynn

God doesn't love you more than anyone else. You aren't a hero. And you certainly, certainly aren't a victim.

Bev Keane

I wouldn't lecture, Annie Flynn. Not until you pull the plank from your own eye, as it were. I hate to speak ill of the dead, but if Riley Flynn, a drunk, and a murderer, was evidence of the quality of his parenting...

Annie Flynn

He was. Every part of him. And God loves him. Just as much as he loves you, Bev. Why does that upset you so much? Just the idea that God loves everyone just as much as you?

Bev Keane

St. Patrick's isn't just a church, Monsignor. It's an ark. I set up cots in the rec center for those who were chosen. We will take to our ships, to our vessels, and then, like sheep among wolves, like you said, we will spread the Good Word.

Father Paul

And who will decide who is chosen?

Bev Keane

We will. You and me.

Father Paul

And what happens to the rest?

Bev Keane

Well, I don't much know. That isn't up to me. It's between them and God, isn't it?

Father Paul

No, we got this wrong.

Bev Keane

Well, don't be ridiculous.

Father Paul

No, Beverly. Please look at them. We are the wolves.

Bev Keane

No. No, please. Please. Not you too. Not you, Monsignor.

Father Paul

I was wrong. We were wrong. We are wrong. And this needs to stop.

Bev Keane

They're lost without a leader, without a shepherd. That must be you, Monsignor. It has to be you. It has always been you.

Father Paul

No! It was never me. That's the thing about priesthood. It's never supposed to be about me. It's supposed to be about God!

Bev Keane

Well, I suppose it isn't you anymore. Of course, he told us that, didn't he? Jesus himself. He warned us against the scribes, against the priests...I suppose virtue isn't a virtue if it doesn't cost you anything. And it was always going to be this way. You were always going to be the last, the hardest, test of my faith. You.