Rent a Catholic Movie! – Lent Challenge

14 Mar, 2009 Catholic Homeschool, Interactive Fun, Recommended Resources

This lent why not try something a little different, like giving up main stream television. What I mean by that is unplug the cable line to your TV set yet, still watch DVD’s, Videos and more. Go online, find whatever you want to watch, news shows, movies, whatever. The point behind this is forcing yourself to deliberately search for what you want to actually see without carelessly running the TV just to have background noise or watch whatever happens to be on because your bored. By making a deliberate search for what your want to find online it avoids vegging out in front of the TV. You’ll probably notice you will watch more of what you really want to view without being bombarded with commercials.

The goal is trying to accomplish changing the way you view programming. After Lent is over and when you begin watching main stream television again, notice how sensative you become to trashy commercials and commercials that tell how to think, what’s wrong with your, etc.. Note how bias media is and the stories of death, murder, kill, depress, the news stations inundate you with. It’s amazing, you will never watch television in the same light again. You will see just how much time the TV actually robs and controls your life.

So where can you go to watch things online like free movies if you don’t have Netflixs, Blockbuster or something like that? You can try Hulu.com or do your own search. Graboid.com offers a free trial that should be just long enough to last through lent. The news stations like CNN, FOX, or ABC news all have streaming features; watch newclips that you want to watch instead of what they throw at you. EWTN even offers streaming to their TV station. There is also a online catholic movie rental website called piusmedia.com that is worth checking out.

So challenge yourself during this time of lent even if you don’t feel like you can go all the way with cutting yourself off from television attempt to make deliberate decisions about what you will watch.