A prayer from The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is aptly used on this day, when the Church celebrates the conversion of Saint Paul.
Archive for category Art and Architecture
The Conversion of Saint Paul
Jan 25
Whacky nativity sets
Dec 19
Is there a point at which the point of the crèche is lost?
Open or Closed Architecture?
Dec 17
How open or closed, architecturally, is your church? How open or closed do you want it to be?
A particularly striking church renovation at St. Theresa’s, Sugarland, Texas.
Publishers have long since gone to high quality cover art for seasonal and multi-year soft cover worship aids. I’m not sure that such great art is appropriate.
That’s the headline in La Stampa.
“The church is the house of God; in the midst of a world filled with the powers of evil, it is a place where God reigns supreme. The church is the house of God’s people, a place open to all where the faithful gather for prayer. The church is the place of sacrifice; the object in the church most worthy of veneration is the altar, which is the symbol of Christ.” — from the 1961 consecration
Some are welcome
Oct 23
by Jonathan Day
“[Bishop Morlino says] to us that [Marty Haugen's "All Are Welcome"] cannot possibly be ‘appropriate-for-liturgical-use’ because the chorus is not true and hence not beautiful.”
“The beauty of art and material things in the sacred liturgy is meant to lead us to contemplate God who is beauty…Let us recall too the warning of St John Chysostom that if we adorn our liturgies with precious items and artworks, we should be all the more mindful to also cloth the naked, feed the hungry, and extend mercy to those in need.”