text: Today the Church places before us the Transfiguration of Our Lord, and history of my season places the Bombing of Hiroshima also on this day. The Homily from St. John's Abbey brought my heart the challenge of the transfiguration of my heart to conform to the Humanity that Christ presents to me and that I so easily fall short of in thought word and deed. Can I strive to disarm my ego? Can I root out the small and the great violence-s I rationalize and justify both to myself and to others?
  
  For those new to the idea of cinema divina... here is the flow as taken from Sr. Roses link. This maybe a tough film for a start but then maybe it is the perfect film.
  
  Lectio: Reading the film we ask: What is the story? What words and images, characters, form, genre and structure does the filmmaker use to tell the story? 
  
  I am not so sure I would include this as it is an intellectual element - perhaps suspend or frame it with other films.  In this... then I would frame it with Fruitvale Station.