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Here is a sample of what I'm working on.
Beauty and the Transcendent
Pope Benedict, in his 2009 speech to artists at the Sistine Chapel, quotes Pope Paul VI who addressed artists in 1964 pleading with them to join forces with the true transcendental God in their creations. Pope Paul VI said in 1964:We need you. We need your collaboration in order to carry out our ministry, which consists, as you know, in preaching and rendering accessible and comprehensible to the minds and hearts of our people the things of the spirit, the invisible, the ineffable, the things of God himself. And in this activity … you are masters. It is your task, your mission, and your art consists in grasping treasures from the heavenly realm of the spirit and clothing them in words, colours, forms – making them accessible.Christianity has always needed artists, not just to disseminate its teachings in image form, but to capture the essence, the transcendence, of those messages. Pope Benedict continues in his 2009 address:[O]ne may speak of a via pulchritudinis, a path of beauty which is at the same time an artistic and aesthetic journey, a journey of faith, of theological enquiry. The way of beauty leads us, then, to grasp the Whole in the fragment, the Infinite in the finite, God in the history of humanity.