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Las Casas Fall 2017 Newsletter
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Yearly Archives: 2017
Faith and Film: Mudbound
Movie Review by Fr. Tom Condon, O.P.
Mudbound is the first film I’ve reviewed that is currently being streamed on Netflix. Even though it’s also being shown in some theaters around the country, most of the people who see it will watch it on various electronic devices.
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Faith and Film: Lady Bird
Movie Review by Fr. Tom Condon, O.P.
Anyone who went to a Catholic high school will recognize many scenes from the new movie Lady Bird. Lady Bird tells the story of Christine McPherson’s 2002-2003 senior year in Catholic girls’ high school in Sacramento. It’s in close proximity to a Catholic boys’ high school, so that the boys and girls go to Mass together, and participate in extra-curricular activities, such as a drama club. Christine, well played by Saoirse Ronan, announces at every opportunity that she no longer wants to be called the name her parents gave her. Instead, she wishes to be called Lady Bird, a name she gives herself. Most of her teachers, friends, and family members oblige.
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Dominican Youth Movement USA: “November 2017 Youth Preaching Weekend”
The November Youth Preaching weekend included eleven students from St. Agnes Academic HS, College Point; and Albertus Magnus HS in Rockland County. The students gathered at “St. John the Baptist HS retreat Center to begin a weekend of prayer, study, and the forming of community. These students were the latest group who attended one of our youth preaching workshops.” Read article
Dominican Youth Movement USA: “Nuns’ Build 2017”
“The 10th Annual Nuns’ Build took place in New Orleans last week, November 13-16. Sisters from across the United States along with their friends and families come to New Orleans for a week to help address the housing crisis left in Katrina’s wake . . . by transforming abandoned and blighted lots into affordable homes for 1st time home buyers.” Read article
