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. This week, on March 24, the evening begins with a meal at 6:30pm, after the 5:30pm Mass, followed by the film at 7pm, with a discussion afterward.
Our fifth film, is the award-winning film, The Seventh Seal, directed by Ingmar Bergman. Set in medieval Sweden, the film follows a disillusioned knight who returns from the Crusades to a plague-ridden home. Finding himself engaged in a chess match with Death, the knight discovers that it is not just his life that’s at stake, but the very meaning and value of that life. On its release, the NYTimes called it, “An uncommon and fascinating film…a piercing and powerful contemplation of the passing of man upon this earth.” It is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Join us on March 24th as we ask with The Seventh Seal: where do we find meaning in a world topsy-turvy and absurd? To what ought we cling? Is it possible for an experience of the “silence of God” to prove transformatively eloquent?
