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 Monday Night at the Movies 📅 Year Two: The Way of Mercy — Memory, Martyrdom, and Eucharistic Hope Renunciation — Francis of Assisi (1961) Renunciation reveals the freedom that comes when a man releases every false attachment and stands before God with nothing but his soul. Francis shows that mercy begins by letting go, and that poverty of spirit becomes the doorway to Eucharistic life. His surrender becomes the pattern for a heart made entirely available to Christ. Fidelity — Francesco (1989) Fidelity teaches that holiness is sustained not by dramatic gestures but by daily perseverance through loneliness, misunderstanding, and interior trial. This film shows that mercy often takes the form of staying — staying with God, staying with one’s brothers, staying with one’s vocation. Fidelity becomes a quiet martyrdom that shapes the soul over time. Tenderness — Therese (1986) Tenderness reveals the strength hidden in small acts of love offered without fanfare or recognition. There...

Monday, October 19, 2026

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 Monday Night at the Movies 📅 Year Two: The Way of Mercy — Memory, Martyrdom, and Eucharistic Hope Renunciation — Francis of Assisi (1961) Renunciation reveals the freedom that comes when a man releases every false attachment and stands before God with nothing but his soul. Francis shows that mercy begins by letting go, and that poverty of spirit becomes the doorway to Eucharistic life. His surrender becomes the pattern for a heart made entirely available to Christ. Fidelity — Francesco (1989) Fidelity teaches that holiness is sustained not by dramatic gestures but by daily perseverance through loneliness, misunderstanding, and interior trial. This film shows that mercy often takes the form of staying — staying with God, staying with one’s brothers, staying with one’s vocation. Fidelity becomes a quiet martyrdom that shapes the soul over time. Tenderness — Therese (1986) Tenderness reveals the strength hidden in small acts of love offered without fanfare or recognition. There...

Sunday, October 18, 2026

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  Smoke in This Life, Not the Next. Sun, Oct 18 — Twenty‑First Sunday after Pentecost / St. Luke Cigar: Bright Habano  Pour: Basil Hayden  Toast Reflection: Let Christ heal the wound. The Twenty‑First Sunday after Pentecost arrives with St. Luke standing quietly beside it, the physician‑evangelist whose pen has always been a kind of balm. Luke writes as one who has seen wounds—physical, moral, spiritual—and has learned that Christ does not recoil from any of them. He draws near. He touches. He heals. Today the Church places us under Luke’s clinical mercy. The Epistle speaks of forgiveness that must be extended seventy times seven, not as arithmetic but as a way of life. The Gospel shows the king settling accounts, revealing how easily the human heart clings to injury, how quickly resentment becomes a self‑inflicted prison. Luke’s steady hand guides us toward the truth: the wound we refuse to surrender is the wound that rules us. To let Christ heal the wound is to stop ...

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