Category Archives: Beauty
The artist’s task
Life can throw us many curve balls, as they say. Some are big and some are small, but all are important in the formation of how we handle life. Sydney Eddison recounts (in Gardening for a Lifetime) a story “of the violinist Itzhak Perlman, who as a boy was struck with polio and who as …
Redeeming beauty from the broken
Are you remembering to look for beauty in your lives? In the midst of hurry and disappointments and black snow and your own shortcomings? Here’s a reminder from Ann Voskamp: “How do Christians Seek Beauty?” and “The Beauty Challenge: Because God’s Everywhere”. You are beautiful, by the way.
God saw that it was beautiful
When God created the world, Genesis says He “saw that it was good” which also means “beautiful.”
A pure transparent pool
I’ve been thinking about how I would answer my own query at the end of yesterday’s post, and one thing that immediately came to mind that brings beauty into my own life is a little photo album of art prints and such that I have collected. For many of them I have an accompanying quote …
“You are the Custodians of Beauty”
A couple of months ago, I began a series of posts on beauty. Pope Benedict XVI just last week addressed a group of some 250 artists gathered in the Sistine chapel on this very theme. What particularly struck me in his address was the link he made between beauty and hope. Unfortunately, the present time is marked, not …
Loving Love and Beauty seeing
A beautiful poem on beauty by one of our sisters, Sr. Stacy Whitfield: Beauty I love your wild extravagance, mountain flower and autumn leaves Endowed with lovely lavishness, making much of what none sees. Yet surely you would not adorn with greater glory grassy hills Than sons and daughters made for joy …
God’s look of love
Fr. Conrad de Meester says God has no needs, but if He did, it would be to love . . .
The Christian life is not a beauty pageant
God “did not love us to leave us to our ugliness but to change us and, disfigured as we were, to make us beautiful.” (Augustine)
Jacques Fesch
The power of music.
“A clean and shining beauty of soul”
Mary has “a clean and shining beauty of soul.”
