Friday evenings in Lent, join us for Lenten Movie Nights! Following a vegetarian meal (for those abstaining from meat on Fridays), we’ll engage with a curated series of films both classic and contemporary, exploring together the following questions: where do we find grace in these films? How does it work? In what ways do these films’ visions of God and of what it means to be human challenge, complicate, or clarify our own vision?
This movie group, led by Fr. Mark Schultz, meets on Friday evenings in Lent. The evening begins with a meal at 6pm followed by that week’s film at 6:30pm, with a discussion afterward.
Our fourth film, on March 17, is the classic epic film The Robe, directed by Henry Koster, released in 1953, and winner of Best Motion Picture at the 1954 Golden Globe awards. The first film released using the CinemaScope lens technology, The Robe tells the fictional story of Marcellus Gallio (played by Richard Burton), a Roman tribune who is put in charge of the crucifixion of Jesus and who wins Christ’s robe in a gambling match…and his life is irrevocably changed. While the film is grandly ambitious, its focus is on imagining the lives of those on the periphery of the Gospels’ narrative but are nonetheless transformed by it. In what ways does grace invite us from the periphery to take a place at the heart of the unfolding story of God’s love for us?
RSVP here to join us on March 17!
