MontyWilliams

Monty Williams, SJ, works in the Spiritual Exercises ministry, is a lecturer at Regis College, Toronto, and is on staff at the Jesuit Communication Project, Toronto.


52 posts

    11 Jun

    A young girl, Mùi, who is gentle and peaceful, becomes a servant for a rich family. The often absent husband leaves taking with him all the household's money. He becomes ill and returns only to die shortly after. The years pass and the family falls on hard times. Two sons have left and the wife now realizes she considered Mùi one of her own. However Mùi changes homes. She becomes a servant for a pianist who was a friend of the family. That man is engaged to be married but is alienated from his fiancee. He starts a relationship with Mui and this causes the engagement to be broken off. The pianist educates Mùi and they get married....

    04 Jun

    The First Grader directed by Justin Chadwick is based on the true story of Kimani Maruge, a Kenyan man who enrolled in elementary education at the age of 84 after the Kenyan government announced universal and free elementary education in 2003....

    28 May

    Based on Yuan era (1271-1368) play, The Orphan of Zhao, Sacrifice is story of epic revenge. A power hungry general wipes out his rival along with his entire family, save for one newborn. The infant is protected by the doctor who delivered him and raises him as his own, hoping to mold him into an instrument of revenge....

    21 May

    In Canada, a writer visits the Indian storyteller Pi Patel and asks him to tell his life story. Pi tells the story of his childhood in Pondicherry, India, and the origin of his nickname. One day, his father, a zoo owner, explains that the municipality is no longer supporting the zoo and he has hence decided to move to Canada, where the animals the family owns would also be sold. They board on a Japanese cargo ship with the animals and out of the blue, there is a storm, followed by a shipwrecking. Pi survives in a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a male Bengal tiger nicknamed Richard Parker. This is just one version of Pi's experiences. There is another. And this raises the question of the nature of memory and of the facts of memory. Are they literal or symbolic? But more importantly: what is the value and affect we attach to the "incidents" of memory....

    19 May

    The introduction to the 2013 on-line film series - Redeeming the Time. The film series is a follow up to the award winning series - Finding God in the Dark - Taking the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius to the Movies. The series explores spiritual issues of concern to people today....

    25 Apr

    each question curls into itself - like the dog today on the snowbank?all winter long it lounged about the house - and laid back feet in the air eyes shut with pleasure when even strangers scratched her ears? and fed her scraps and this morning – what was the last time we saw a sky like that -- the half eaten carcass of a squirrel beside her - she lies on the snowbank and looks past us...

    13 Apr

    the tarnished silver of the Queen Anne's lace in the winter light tinkle as the first trains go by last night's frost has made them brittle this long loneliness rushing past will not last...

    20 Mar

    these days the soul laid open salted stretched nailed?to winter wood the wonder of it gutted wolf-mask thin disfigured breath wolf spirit?stalking its hooded kind...

    14 Mar

    for Vespers: all these things they say foretold the air gathers up this Lenten season the tiny voices of children : a choir of Sundays unburdened by bells scattered across a cloistered sky:...

    03 Mar

    the sky the colour of fish skin before the winter storm your gaze smudges rushes with emotion broken lines of birds damp down gather and grow formal...

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