Laudato Si’ Coming to a Screen Near You!
Join us for the Passionist Family Movie Club
Mondays: January 15, 22, 29, Feb. 5, 12, 2024
Time:
- 8 p.m. ET
- 7 p.m. CT
- 6 p.m. MT
- 5 p.m. PT
Each week, we’ll provide a Laudato Si’ related movie selection (and free streaming location) for you to watch at home, discussion questions, and a Zoom room for post-viewing conversation on Monday nights, January 15-February 12.
You choose your level of participation from simply watching the movie to considering the questions at home to joining others in the Passionist Family on Zoom for conversation.
To receive the weekly movie selection, questions and zoom address, please register for the full series:
Our movie selection for January 22nd is:
My Octopus Teacher
Watch it now
“The year’s most unexpected tearjerker is
a heart-expanding adventure.”-Vanity Fair
A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher: a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal’s trust and they develop a never before seen bond between human and wild animal. together.
Reflection questions:
- What Craig did was pretty extreme to acclimate to the environment that the octopus lived in. Have you done something like this for an extended period of time? If not, do you see yourself doing something daily to get to know nature? What would it be?
- In physics, the observer effect is the disturbance of an observed system by the act of observation. Do you think Craig affected how the octopus lived and her ecosystem? Was he responsible for what happened or didn’t happen? Are you aware of something that changed because you witnessed it?
- Do you think going out as a group to save the kelp forest at the end of the story is a good thing or not?
- Have you had a meaningful interaction with something that was truly wild (unaffected by humans)?
To receive the zoom link for the Monday conversations as well as upcoming weekly movie selections and reflection questions, please register for the full series.
If you have already registered, you do not need to register again. Any questions, please feel free to email Lissa at lissa@passionist.org.
Looking forward to movie club with you!
“Bring healing to our lives, that we may protect the world and not prey on it, that we may sow beauty, not pollution and destruction." (from "A Prayer for Our Earth," LS 246)
