Malone and Pacatte create a dialogue between Scripture and film, engaging faith through culture and culture through faith in this exciting series. This volume provides a fresh take on the Scriptures through the lens of popular movies such as: It's a Wonderful Life, Where the Heart Is, The Family Man, Forrest Gump, and more. A movie synopsis, film commentary, film dialogue with the Sunday Scriptures, points for reflection and conversation, and suggested prayers are included.

Lights, Camera, Faith!: A Movie Lectionary Guide to Scripture, Cycle A

Religion & Spirituality

Peter Malone

Rose Pacatte

Christian Books & Bibles

Pauline Books & Media

This second volume of Lights, Camera ... Faith! provides new thought-provoking passages into the world of the Gospels through popular film. By exploring 74 movies in the light of the Sunday Scriptures, Malone and Pacatte create a dialogue between Scripture and film, engaging faith through culture and culture through faith. Insight, inspiration, and information meet in this valuable resource for anyone who appreciates deeper meaning in movies. Ideal for homilists, parish discussion groups, young adult groups, film educators, and professionals. ?Movie synopsis. ?Film commentary ?Film dialogue with the Sunday Scriptures ?Points for reflection and conversation ?Suggested prayers

Lights Camera Faith Cycle B: A Movie Lectionary

About this Book:A fresh take on the Ten Commandments-through the lens of popular movies!Enliven your study of the Christian faith by discovering movies as a moral laboratory.In this volume of Lights, Camera ? Faith!, Rose Pacatte, FSP, and Peter Malone, MSC, offer an exciting approach to adult faith formation by creating a dialogue between Scripture, the Ten Commandments, and film. By exploring the drama of the moral life through movies, Lights, Camera ? Faith! The Ten Commandments grapples with the reality of temptation, choices, motivation, consequences, and the faith-filled and informed Christian response to life's situations. Three movies are offered for each commandment, providing material for different viewers: a film appropriate for a general adult audience, a film with themes calling for more in-depth discussion, and a film that treats more difficult issues.With fresh insight into God's covenant of love, this is a valuable resource for catechetical leaders, adult faith-formation programs, parish discussion groups, young adult groups, film educators and professionals-and anyone who appreciates deeper meaning in movies.

Lights Camera Faith - The Ten Commandments

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Although she is the Mother of God, Mary was a woman who experienced the full range of human emotions: amazement and confusion, fear and exhaustion, tenderness and wonder, tranquility and joy. In this inspiring book, contemporary women ponder Mary s journeys 151 both spiritual and physical 151 and contemplate her growth as a person, a woman, a wife, a mother, a child of God. Author: Rose Pacatte, FSPFormat: 160 pages, PaperbackPublisher: Pauline Books and MediaISBN: 0819851647

The Nativity Story: Contemplating Mary's Journeys of Faith

The Gospel accounts of Jesus' birth have captivated and inspired Christian faith for centuries. But the human, evocative portrayal of Mary, Joseph, and the other characters in The Nativity Story awakens our hearts and our imaginations in an entirely new way. The Nativity Story invites us to explore our faith and to listen for God's Word in our daily lives, and this user-friendly film study guide is a wonderful roadmap for the journey and provides a practical means for delving prayerfully into the mystery of our Savior's birth. Personal reflection includes thought-provoking questions on Scripture passages and the movie for integrating God's Word and one's own life. Group study features questions focusing on themes including: Journeying, Seeking, Prayer, Values and Virtues, and Story and Symbols. Whole community catechesis works as a springboard for weekly gatherings from the first Sunday of Advent through Epiphany, including questions that integrate the weekly Gospel reading and the movie for children, for teens, for adults, and for households of faith. Book jacket.

The Nativity Story - A Film Study Guide For Catholics

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