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 second film, on March 3rd, is 1936’s My Man Godfrey, directed by Gregory La Cava, and ranked by Premiere Magazine in 2006 as one of the 50 Greatest Comedies of All Time. Nominated at the 1937 Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and the four Best Actor categories (the first in Oscar history), My Man Godfrey follows Godfrey Parke, a “forgotten man,” as he’s brought from the city dump to serve in a palatial mansion at a wealthy socialite’s charitable whim…but when devastation looms, who is really saving whom? A comedy with serious social commentary, My Man Godfrey insists on asking: what is the real nature of charity, and whom does it truly transform?
Please RSVP if you would like to attend.
