Bring a friend who’s not yet in
the parish and the church will pay for your pizza!! We’ll watch Babette’s Feast, a beautiful drama about sharing joy through a
glorious meal. Come eat pizza and
popcorn (we pool contributions and order out, but anyone can bring snacks).
Babette’s Feast is a
beautiful 1987 Danish film about generosity, faith, self-denial and feasting. Here’s a summary from
Amazon.com: “In Babette's Feast,
a woman flees the French civil war and lands in a small seacoast village in
Denmark, where she comes to work for two spinsters, devout daughters of a
puritan minister. After many years, Babette unexpectedly wins a lottery, and
decides to create a real French dinner--which leads the sisters to fear for
their souls. The village elders all resolve not to enjoy the meal, but can
their moral fiber resist the sensual pleasure of Babette's cooking? Babette's
Feast deservedly won the 1987 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language
Film.”
