Do you think you might be called to be a priest? Discernment retreat Pittsburg, PA, November 4th-6th
Ron Gaudio's blogpost on Pythagoras and his lasting influence on Western Civilization
For Pythagoras and many other Greek philosophers, the beauty of the cosmos reflected not only a harmonious order but divinity itself. That is why they were also a community that worshipped. Pythagoras’s legacy reached even to the United States, being responsible for the architectural beauty of Monticello, Harvard Hall, and the Capitol Building.
Report on the March for Eternal Life - and notification of more Pilgrimages coming this year.
Beauty in the Spiritual Life, Part 1: Beauty as a Principle of Choice
The conscience can act in a prohibitive sense, that warns us against sinful acts. But there is another principle of choice that is more positive and affirmative and is a creative impulse that works in harmony with the order that underlies the beauty of all things. That is the conscience of creativity that chooses the most beautiful option.
Biblical Typology for Christmas in a Liturgical Hymn: Words, Music and Art
Monastic Experience Weekend, May 31: St Mary's Benedictine Monastery, Petersham
Re-Published Series of Essays by Fr. Vincent McNabb O.P.
For those invested in the rediscovery of beauty, discussions regarding the place of the “Catholic imagination” in artistic creativity are commonplace. All too often, the investigation of these questions is distorted and misdirected by an adoption, usually unconscious, on the part of the investigator of aspects of the Romantic ethos that still dominates the secular worldview. Fr. McNabb’s approach is an antidote to this.
