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Two Thieves

April 1, 2021 | By John Daoud PM ‘21

Lent calls us to improve and deepen our relationship with the Lord in many ways. One such way is through an examination of his Passion. I have recently been drawn to the beautiful Passion hymn, “The Song of the Two Thieves.” The hymn finds its root in the Indian Orthodox churches and is originally in Malayalam. Translations may be found here and here. And of course, hymns are not meant to be read but rather chanted.

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It’s a Wonderful Life, Even in 2020

Dec 20, 2020 | By Sharla Moody BK ‘22

Note: this review contains spoilers for It’s a Wonderful Life

Every December my family watches the Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life. [1] One year, we went to the single-screen retro cinema down the street from our house called The Colony Club, which has unfortunately permanently closed its doors.

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Faith, War, and Marxism in Leon Morin, Prêtre

Dec 5, 2020 | By Bella Gamboa JE ‘22

I did not expect a film watched for class to be a spiritually rich experience, but Leon Morin, Prêtre (Leon Morin, Priest), a 1961 film by Jean-Pierre Melville, was in equal parts visually striking, well-paced, and theologically compelling.

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Buckets of Grace

Nov. 15, 2020 | By Ally Eidemueller BK ‘22

At the beginning of the semester, my basement was my least favorite place on campus. Before opening the door from the lobby and taking the plunge down the narrow staircase, I would utter a quick prayer for God to bless my journey through the basement and out the back door. The red stains ingrained in the cement floor and half painted sheds with missing wooden beams that could double as cells seem almost a world apart from God.

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Seeing Each Other

Oct 11, 2020 | By Sharla Moody BK '22

There are few things harder to grapple with in this world than the realization that our loved ones are just as imperfect as everyone else. This perhaps marks the change from child to adult, when we learn that our parents are not gods, but rather complex and flawed people just like ourselves. When we meet a new romantic partner, at first it seems that they can do no wrong. Yet the U.S.’s depressingly high divorce rate suggests otherwise. We sometimes view love—not just romantic love, but also familial—through rose-colored lenses. But the people we love dearly can also cut us deeply precisely because we love them.

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Not in a Hurry

Sept 20, 2020 | By Serena Puang DC ‘22 + 1

I came across “Not in a Hurry” at an Augustine Collective Conference in January, which now feels a world away. I was struck then by the lyrics because not being “in a hurry” is antithetical to my life at Yale. I am in a hurry! In fact, I rarely even listen to music because I’m in such a hurry that I don’t have time. After quarantine started, my extracurriculars and places to go were gone. I did the math, and between commuting and extracurriculars that no longer existed, I was allegedly saving 23 hours per week, but I was still rushing around.

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