Art and Culture

Christian Valentine’s Day begins with the divine Valentine, the Bible. Couples are reminded of God’s everlasting love:
“The Lord your God will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing” (Zeph 3:17).

Valentine’s Day arrives each year with predictable enthusiasm. Shops turn red, restaurants fill, and love is packaged into cards, flowers, and carefully planned moments. For a brief time, it feels as though love is everywhere. Then the day passes, the decorations disappear, and ordinary life resumes.

Patapon is a small film with a long echo. The healing of creation does not start with grand gestures, but with awareness, with returning to oneself.

Esperanza enters this noisy world not with a shout, but with a pause. It asks us to stop scrolling, cut the clutter, and listen carefully.

The word scrap comes from the Old Norse skrap, something small, leftover, seemingly insignificant. In today’s language, scrap means waste. In Sacred Scrap, scrap becomes sacrament.

Untitled is more like a question quietly placed before the viewer. A question many of us avoid because it unsettles our carefully managed routines: Is my life meant to run on repeat, or am I willing to let God write its script?

Re-Creation is a poignant reminder that healing begins with awareness, responsibility, and love—for even the smallest choice can help make the world a better place again.

Dominoes doesn’t start with a noisy bang. It smiles first and that is what makes it dangerous. Like our age. Like our greed.

Quest is a haunting five-minute reflection that echoes Laudato Si’, asking how long humanity can wound the earth and still expect it to carry us.

Harvest festivals are older than temples and churches. Long before theology was articulated and liturgy formalised, human beings learned to look at the soil, the rain and the grain and to recognise a simple truth: life is received, not manufactured.

Speaking through bare feet, broken roads, and a wounded earth, “U Turn”, stages in just over four minutes what Laudato Si’ dares to hope: that even at the brink, “all is not lost,” because humanity can still choose again.

Left-Handed Girl drifts in with the kind of softness that sneaks up on you. It follows Shu-Fen, a young mother trying to stitch together a new life in Taipei with her two daughters.

In our own lives, are we playing the part of Victor, creating things, relationships, or even versions of ourselves, only to abandon them when they don’t meet our perfect, prideful expectations?

Set in the winter of 1970, The Holdovers follows three unlikely companions stranded at a quiet New England boarding school during Christmas break: a grumpy history teacher, a sharp-tongued student with nowhere to go, and a grieving cook

I’m Still Here is not simply a film about dictatorship or loss. It is about a strength that cannot be silenced. It is about a woman who shows us that joy can be an act of protest, love a form of resistance, and hope the deepest expression of faith.

Human Rights Day must not be reduced to symbolic observance; it must reignite our commitment to ensuring that the promises of the UDHR shape real lives, not remain lofty aspirations.

F1: The Movie doesn’t break new narrative ground, but it executes a classic story with heart-pounding excellence. It’s a film that understands spectacle but isn’t afraid of quiet, reflective moments.

International Volunteer Day, observed every year on December 5, invites us to recognise the countless individuals who give themselves generously for the good of others.

“I have been living with the Sisters since I was very young. They made my life better. I am eternally grateful,” Robi told RVA.

If God’s call isn’t a shout from a distant mountain, but a whisper in the things you already love and the peace you already bring, are you listening?