Film & Literary Readings for Armistice/Veterans Day on November 10, Anno Domini 2019
Veterans Day was known in the US as Armistice Day until 1954, and was inaugurated on Nov 10-11, 1919, to commemorate the cessation of hostilities between France and Germany in “the Great War” on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month (11 November 1918).
World War I and its aftermath impacted western civilization in unprecedented ways, arguably ushering in the modern era, causing cultural disillusionment, and hastening forces of secularization. Yet some who lived through it responded differently: through a recuperation of traditional faith, historical consciousness, artistic endeavor, and honest work. Exactly 101 years later, how can we honor and remember the personal sacrifice, the loss of life, the social aftermath of WWI, which is part of our inheritance? How can reckoning with the impactful significance of war help renew the cultural legacy of Christian civilization?
SCHEDULE
World War I and its aftermath impacted western civilization in unprecedented ways, arguably ushering in the modern era, causing cultural disillusionment, and hastening forces of secularization. Yet some who lived through it responded differently: through a recuperation of traditional faith, historical consciousness, artistic endeavor, and honest work. Exactly 101 years later, how can we honor and remember the personal sacrifice, the loss of life, the social aftermath of WWI, which is part of our inheritance? How can reckoning with the impactful significance of war help renew the cultural legacy of Christian civilization?
SCHEDULE
6:00 pm: Doors open at The Ladder
6:30-7:00 pm: Brief readings from the work of David Jones and Alisdair MacIntyre
7:00-8:40 pm: Film - They Shall Not Grow Old, 2018, dir. by Peter Jackson (1hr 39min)
8:40-9:00 pm: Discussion and brief readings from the work of Wilfred Owen, T. S. Eliot & J. R. R. Tolkien
REFRESHMENTS
Dessert from the Trenches: Rice pudding
Eating & Drinking at Once: English beer
WHEN
Feast of St Orestes the Martyr of Cappadocia
Anno Domini 2019, November 10
7:00-8:40 pm: Film - They Shall Not Grow Old, 2018, dir. by Peter Jackson (1hr 39min)
8:40-9:00 pm: Discussion and brief readings from the work of Wilfred Owen, T. S. Eliot & J. R. R. Tolkien
REFRESHMENTS
Dessert from the Trenches: Rice pudding
Eating & Drinking at Once: English beer
WHEN
Feast of St Orestes the Martyr of Cappadocia
Anno Domini 2019, November 10
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