We look forward to presenting this month's film, "Children of Men" and hope that you all can join us for this
must see epic of the future we are headed for - unless we change things now!

View the trailor for "Children of Men"
http://www.fancast.com/movies/Children-of-Men/60878/135541494/Children-of-Men-Trailer/videos

RSVP now!

Blessings, Rev. John
215-421-7821
call me with any questions...

Pardon the short notice...
Please join us for the timely showing of this moving story of men letting down their guard and national pride to connect with each other over the one thing that bonds us all...

"Joeux Noel"

In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood. This film dramatizes one such section as the French, Scottish and German sides partake in the unique event, even though they are aware that their superiors will not tolerate its occurrence. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)

On the Christmas Eve of 1914, in the Western Front in France in World War I, the Scottish, the German and the French troops have a moment of truce and share moments of peace and friendship. When the soprano Anna Sorensen succeeds in convincing the Prussian Prince to join her tenor husband Nikolaus Sprink to sing for the German high command, Sprink brings her to the front to sing for his comrades in the trench. The Scottish Lieutenant Gordon and the French Lieutenant Audebert have an informal and unauthorized meeting with the German Lieutenant Horstmayer and negotiate a truce for that night, and the priest Palmer celebrates a mass for the soldiers. When their superiors become aware of the event, they have to pay for the consequence of their acts. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Feel free to bring non-alcoholic refreshments /snacks. The film starts at 7:45, hope to see you here!
Call if you need directions or get lost :
Rev. John 215-421-7821

Dear Members,

Our next event will take place on Friday, September 19th at 7:30p.m. We will be featuring the award winning documentary, "A Crude Awakening", which unveils the impending crisis our planet faces if we do not act now -

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Please rsvp so we may plan for your attendance! Feel free to call or email me with questions or details about our location.

Blessings,
Rev. John Tomasic
215-421-7821
Center of Light~
824 Glenside Ave.
Wncote PA 19095

Dear Memebers of Spiritual/Conscious Movies & More,

Our Next movie night W I L L B E Friday, July 11th at 7:30pm. Our featured film is:

" W a l k o n W a t e r "

Please join us for this film which brings together elements of personal transformation, political struggle,
and the blend/grind of cultures in an inteligent, suspensful dramatic narrative.

Review ~

'Water': A Killer's Crisis of Conscience
By Stephen Hunter
Washington Post Staff Writer&#8232;Friday, April 1, 2005; Page C05

"Walk on Water," an ingeniously crafted Israeli drama, cuts in so many different directions it could be a jigsaw convention. Every single relationship is fraught with paradox, ambiguity, regret and double-entendre, yet the thing is so smoothly made and well-acted it draws you in.
The movie begins, thrillerlike, with a Mossad assassin named Eyal (long-faced Lior Ashkenazi) taking out a terrorist suspect (method: quick, lethal injection) in public in Turkey. But when he gets home he discovers his wife has committed suicide, and this tragedy immediately gets him placed on nonoperational status, which upsets him far more than his wife's death. Eyal, we understand, is a pro's pro, a zealot's zealot, one of those universal soldiers who do the world's wet work: controlled, distant, goal- and duty-haunted, he's the guy who'll do dirty deeds dirt cheap.
But now, without a mission, he's unhappy and even more so when taken up by another Mossad department and given a somewhat quixotic assignment. The youthful German brother of a woman living on a kibbutz is coming to visit her in Tel Aviv. It turns out that they are the grandchildren of one of the few remaining uncaught war criminals; Eyal is assigned -- he hates the job -- to represent himself as a tour guide, insinuate himself among the siblings and hunt for leads to the old SS officer. What he can't count on is: He falls in love with the sister, and the brother falls in love with him. Then it turns out the old bastard is alive and Eyal, by now hopelessly involved with these two messy people, is given the job of terminating him.
Basically, the movie chronicles a zealot's softening amid a nexus of issues. There's the gay-straight issue, the national-international issue, the peace-war issue, the man-woman issue, the kill-or-be-killed issue, each one of them embodied not in a speech but in a relationship. The director, Eytan Fox, has a brilliant gift for putting people in moral quandaries where their responsibilities run counter to their instincts. Then he sits back and watches them twitch. The zealous Eyal, for example, is a man of black-and-white: He has no mercy for his antagonists in the arena of anti-terrorism, which has extended to all Palestinians. No sentimental liberalism here: Fox shows him as a natural, fierce hater who cannot bring himself to be decent to the young Palestinian that the German boy Axel (Knut Berger) takes as his lover. And this, of course, is after the nuance-deaf warrior has finally figured out the boy is gay. (Note to Eyal: Do you think the gay bars are a tip?)
But as contemptuous as he pretends to be of the two German hippies and their guilt-driven family secrets, he's been weirdly absorbed by them. The man who cannot cry -- a tear-duct condition, used as a symbol of his emotional detachment -- suddenly feels strange wet beads falling from his eyes, and his whole purpose comes into question when he's ordered to kill again. He knows if he succeeds, he'll get his old life back -- but does he want it?
"Walk on Water" is so smooth it's almost Canadian, and that's high praise for any film. But again it denotes a minor movie miracle: how with intelligence, imagination and craft a small film can work in really large ways.
Walk on Water (106 minutes, in Hebrew and German with subtitles, at Landmark's E Street) is not rated and contains nudity and violence.

Feel free to bring friends and refreshments (non-alcoholic)
show up promptly at 7:30!

THIS IS AN AMAZING FILM, SHOWN ON OUR LARGE SCREEN (8x5 FT) AND GENERATES GREAT DISCUSSION. WE HOPE MANY OF YOU CAN ATTEND.

Blessings, Rev. John

Friday, May 16th, 7:30 sharp, non-alcoholic refreshments welcome.
824 Glenside Ave. (see our large "Meetup!" sign, yellow flag and blue light in lamp post!), Wyncote, PA 19095 ~ call for directions (even if you are on the way and get lost!)
215-421-7821

Dear Memebers of Spiritual/Conscious Movies & More,

Our Next movie night W I L L B E this Friday, May 16th at 7:30pm. Our featured film is:

"10 Questions for the Dali Lama"

Please join us for a timely look at one of our times most influential spiritual figure.

Review ~

When the filmmaker Rick Ray arrived in India to direct a travel video, an interview with the Dalai Lama was supposed to be part of his compensation. When he discovered that he would have to arrange it himself, he did, by e-mail.

The result is 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama, a tedious title for an anything-but-tedious film. Expertly merging the mystical and the mundane, Mr. Ray presents a warm and well-rounded portrait of his subject, his Buddhist philosophies and the painful circumstances of his exile to a modest monastery in Dharamsala, India.

Though it touches on Tibet and China's discordant political history (with amazing archival film and an interview with a former Chinese political prisoner), the movie is more charmed by the Dalai Lama's personality than by his politics.

Impish, self-deprecating and an infectious giggler, he is an unorthodox spiritual exemplar with an insatiable scientific curiosity. (When science contradicts faith, he's prone to choose science, Mr. Ray marvels.) This 14th incarnation of the Dalai Lama would rather be reading about neuroscience than enduring a festival in his honor.

As for Mr. Ray's questions, his interviewee doesn't hold back, whether discussing his environmentalism or the outmoded Indian caste system. He even ventures onto the thin ice of birth control.

Quality is more important than quantity! - is his emphatic opinion. Mother Teresa might have had something to say about that.

Jeanette Catsoulis, NY Times

Feel free to bring friends and refreshments (non-alcoholic)
show up promptly at 7:30!

THIS IS AN AMAZING FILM, SHOWN ON OUR LARGE SCREEN (8x5 FT) AND GENERATES GREAT DISCUSSION. WE HOPE MANY OF YOU CAN ATTEND.

Blessings, Rev. John

Friday, May 16th, 7:30 sharp, non-alcoholic refreshments welcome.
824 Glenside Ave. (see our yellow flag and blue light in lamp post!), Wyncote, PA 19095 ~ call for directions (even if you are on the way and get lost!)
215-421-7821