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Tag Archives: Culture
A Brief Look Back (and Forward) at Liturgical Reform
Fr. Douglas Martis writing in Tidings, the Newsletter of the Liturgical Institute offers an excellent synopsis of the past half century, and what we have learned through the reform of the Roman Rite.
“We have rediscovered that church architecture is not simply a “skin for liturgical action,” not a “space” solely for the purpose of gathering the community, but rather a formative place of presence
charged with sacramental meaning…. Sacred art, architecture, music, catechesis, justice, the ars celebrandi and many other things each make a particular contribution to the beauty, meaning and authenticity of liturgical expression.” Continue reading
Posted in Architecture and Design, Liturgy and Liturgical Resources
Tagged Conference, Culture, Liturgy
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Beautiful Things
Mark Shea, writing for Our Sunday Visitor offers a worthwhile understanding of Beauty placed in the service of God.
“This matters because at one of the most famous banquets of all — held to celebrate the raising of Lazarus from the dead — we see the old familiar charge of obscene waste as it is leveled, not against corrupt Renaissance popes or negligent bishops, but against Jesus himself…”
Posted in Architecture and Design, Culture
Tagged Beauty, Culture, Signs and Symbols, Tabernacle
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Benedict – Restoring the Theme of Beauty
Deacon Keith Fournier at Catholic Online provides an excellent recap of Pope Benedict’s recent comments on Beauty and the role of the Artist in works of sacred art and architecture.
“…Separation between the arts and a living faith has no place in a mature Christian worldview. It proceeds from a poor anthropology, a misunderstanding of the nature of man/woman. It represents an inadequate understanding of the scope and implications of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ.” Continue reading
Beauty and Vocations
Readers will appreciate this excellent short video from the website One Billion Stories that discusses how inspired beauty in art captures our imagination and leads us closer to the love of Christ. Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Sacred Art & Artists
Tagged Beauty, Benedixt XVI, Culture, Sacred Art, tradition
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Colorado Catholic History – Part One
Nestled in the San Luis Valley, not too far from the New Mexico border, is the community of Conejos, Colorado. In 1858 the first Mass was said in Conejos in a wood and mud, adobe-like, church by the parish’s first pastor Fr. V.S. Montaño. This humble structure was the first Catholic Church built in Colorado and is today the state’s oldest.
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Posted in Architecture and Design, Culture, Uncategorized
Tagged church buidlings, Culture, historic
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The City of God -or- the City of Man
It is not common to speak of architecture, homebuilding, design, and construction in these terms. However, if there is a person involved (and of course there always is) then our aim must be toward the proper end and fulfillment of the life of man. Surely we will miss the mark and fall short, but without some upward trajectory provided by our understanding of the City of God, the City of Man becomes shallow and hollow Continue reading
Posted in Architecture and Design, Culture
Tagged Culture, Heavenly City, Sacramental Worldview
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Building Culture
Our chuches should be Good insofar as they enable and encourage the faithful to fulfill our duties toward God in right worship, and toward our fellow brothers and sisters through Christian charity.
Our churches should be True insofar as they present to us in symbol, art, ornament, arrangement, and architecture the revealed and developed truths of the faith handed down to us in this Age of the Church, as we await Christ’s return in Glory.
Our churches should be Beautiful insofar as they show forth the Glory of the Lord and the presence of the Living God, through the work of human hands, as they prefigure for us the redemption of all of Creation which we so eagerly anticipate in each liturgical celebration. Continue reading
Posted in Building a Church, Culture
Tagged Benedixt XVI, church buidlings, Culture, Joseph Pieper, Sacred Architecture, tradition
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