University of DivinityJesuit College of Spirituality is hosting a movie-viewing to support the College.
Silence
“How do you tell the story of Christian faith? The difficulty, the crisis, of believing? How do you describe the struggle? … Shusaku Endo understood the conflict of faith, the necessity of belief fighting the voice of experience. The voice that always urges the faithful – the questioning faithful – to adapt their beliefs to the world they inhabit, their culture…That’s a paradox, and it can be an extremely painful one: on the face of it, believing and questioning are antithetical. Yet I believe that they go hand in hand. One nourishes the other. Questioning may lead to great loneliness, but if it co-exists with faith – true faith, abiding faith – it can end in the most joyful sense of communion. It’s this painful, paradoxical passage – from certainty to doubt to loneliness to communion – that Endo understands so well, and renders so clearly, carefully and beautifully in Silence.” – Martin Scorsese
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact. There they witness the persecution of Japanese Christians at the hands of their own government which wishes to purge Japan of all western influence. Eventually the priests separate and Rodrigues travels the countryside, wondering why God remains silent while His children suffer.
Date: Tuesday February 21, 2017
Time: 6.00pm
Location: Kino Cinema, 45 Collins Street, Melbourne
Tickets: $20 per person
Please book before Friday 10 February 2017 to allow for accurate cinema allocation based on numbers.
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