Spring Series
Since earliest times, human beings have delighted in telling stories. Stories are used for entertainment, of course, but they are also the means of communicating values, challenging assumptions, raising issues of social importance and pointing to the reality beyond the here-and-now.
You need only think of the parables of Jesus in the gospels to realize the power of stories to comfort, to disturb, to illuminate and, ultimately, to change. Jesus knew that often our most important lessons are learned through stories.
For over a hundred years now, innumerable stories have been told through the medium of film. In Movies that Matter, participants will view a film together each evening, following a short introduction. They will then be helped to reflect, individually and together, on the issues and values raised in the film, particularly through the eyes of faith.
'The Journey into Friendship.' (1 February - 11 April) 7.30pm to 10.00pm
In this series we begin by looking at four levels at which we love and relate. We then examine three ages we pass through as we develop our capacity to love and relate. We look at the age of affection and how this lays the foundation for that of passionate love. When passionate love is made to last and is deepened, it finds fulfillment in friendship.
Ordinary People (1 February)
This film is about how important it is to get our whole person involved in the way we love and relate, to engage our whole body and soul, heart and mind.
Three Colours: Red (15 February)
We all pass through three ages as we learn to love and relate. This film deals with the age of affection when the foundation is laid for all our relationships.
Another Woman (29 February)
This film is about the age of passionate love when we are urged to move out of the self-preoccupation of adolescence and to get ourselves wholly engaged in the life of another person.
Lantana (14 March)
In this film we look at how we may or may not make our relationships last. Whether we do or not depends on how willing we are to wrestle with our weakness and waywardness as well as with all the potential that passionate love has for friendship.
The Bucket List (28 March)
This film asks us questions like: How do we deepen the way we love and relate? If our children and our work form the basis of our relationship, what happens when the urgency of these is no longer there? Where does the inner journey we are all eventually invited to go on find a place in our relationships?
Intimate Strangers (11 April)
Friendship is the goal of all our relationships and involves mutual communication. How deep this friendship is depends on how much of what we have and who we are willing to share.
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