“We have so far done 20 showings and 19 of them have been sold out,” Kidonakis of Palomita Films emphasized. “And every time people come, we get one more person to be like, ‘I want to sponsor a showing’ and they’ll just write the check.”
Kidonakis shared that her “dream” was to have 10 screenings of “Love God’s Will” during Lent. There have been 20 showings and there are 20 more scheduled during April and May.
The team is now working on expanding outside of Texas as requests for showings have been flooding in from across the country from states including Florida, Wisconsin, Illinois, New York, and more. Not only will they be bringing the film to theaters outside of Texas but also to parishes and schools as well.
“Now we have all these out-of-state people that we had to find another volunteer to help us with the out-of-state [requests] because we can barely manage with the Texas people,” Kidonakis told CNA.
As for the Stawaisz family, they’ve been moved to see the response and hear the stories of all the lives Ryan touched.
“I just find it like an Overton window … you’re looking behind the scenes of something and it just humbles my heart,” Susan Stawaisz shared.
Gabby Stawaisz added that after showings, people approach her to share their story of Ryan and has realized that by talking with so many people that “everybody had a story” of him.
Ross Stawaisz pointed out that he was not aware of what his brother’s day-to-day life truly looked like because they were things that were not shared, but once he saw a glimpse of that, it was “moving.”
“All that time that I was just thinking to myself, ‘He’s probably at church praying or just resting’ he was really at the hospitals ministering to the sick, doing home visits, doing all of these other things,” he said. “And like my mom said, it wasn’t until after he passed [that] we really realized what his day-to-day life looked like and it was very moving to understand how important ministering to the parish was for him and how well he did it.”
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The Stawaisz family also reflected on what they themselves learned from Ryan during his time on earth.
“Ryan thought quite deeply and the advice he was able to give was common sense but you just didn’t think of it as quickly as it came out,” Ray Stawaisz shared about his son. “And that was, I think, a gift he had.”
Ross Stawaisz added that as his brother, it was always clear to him that Ryan “went out of his way to some degree to make sure that the people around him felt welcome.”
He recalled that ahead of his wedding, Ryan was able to help put into perspective what he needed to be focusing on as he became a husband and started a family.
“I’m trying to focus on my job and do all this other stuff and he would continually help me to say, ‘Hey, pray about this. What is most important to you? What do you think God wants you to do? How is he trying to bring peace to your life?’ and then do those things.”
The Palomita Films team shared that they were about to stop making movies, but “Father Ryan just took us on such a journey,” Kidonakis shared. “He brought so much peace to my life in a place where I just was kind of burnt out and also confused about what was the next step and he really made me love God’s will in my own life.”
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