Ratzinger on the Question of Images

Happy Birthday Josef Ratzinger / Benedict XVI and thank you for reminding us of the beauty of truth and the truth of beautyhttps://t.co/Q4yxkg243H

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) April 16, 2021

We pray for Pope Benedict XVI on his 94th birthday today! May the Lord grant him good health in the coming year. Ad multos annos! (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) pic.twitter.com/pwdNdPjDfl

— U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (@USCCB) April 16, 2021

More with Timothy Patitsas

Alice von Hildebrand on the Square Notes Podcast

NLM

Author Julián Carrón and Joseph Weiler on "Disarming Beauty: Essays on Faith, Truth, and Freedom"

Timothy Patitsas: Beauty, Complexity and Ethics

Bishop Steven J Lopes: "Beauty in the Spoken Word and Ministerial Action"

Beauty of the Liturgy...

When the young Church recognized the cross of Christ as the moment of salvation, Christ himself as the sacrifice of atonement and the lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world, then it was clear for her that all the bloody cult of sacrifice had been abrogated once and for all. Christianity was a cult-revolution in antiquity. The bloodletting of Golgotha makes all man-made victims obsolete. There is now just the “leiturgia logike,” the spiritual, rational liturgy. It is telling that the Epistle to the Hebrews signifies the Christian religious service as “the sacrifice of praise” and “fruit of the lips.” And in the fact, inexplicable in itself, that early Christians refused to express their civic loyalty by sacrificing before images of the emperor, we can see a clear result of this spiritualization. There is no longer any other sacrifice efficacious before God, save the one of Golgotha. There are also no longer any priests in the plural, but only the one Jesus Christ.

Interview with James Matthew Wilson

Carrie Gress

2017 Hillenbrand Lecture by Bishop Steven Lopes

The Worship of God in the Beauty of Holiness by Most Rev. Steven J. Lopes

Bishop Lopes' June 21, 2017 Hillenbrand Lecture at the Liturgical Institute of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake, where he offered a presentation on Divine Worship.

How much is tuition?

Chesterton Academy

CWR Dispatch: How do we teach beauty? by Dale Ahlquist
Chesterton says, “Wherever men are happy, they will build beautiful things.” The modern world is ugly because we are unhappy. The modern world is ugly because we do not love the modern world.

Beauty Will Save the World

Climacus Conference 2017

Something from David Clayton in 2015

Crisis Magazine: To Follow the Way of Beauty

an interview at Catholic Exchange

The Fall Conference of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture

CWR Dispatch: William Byrd and the beckoning of beauty by Peter M.J. Stravinskas
Style and class have been banished from most Catholic sanctuaries in our land – and we are all the poorer for it. The transient, the ephemeral, the cheap have replaced the beautiful, the uplifting, the inspiring.

Will someone write an aesthetics of music that goes beyond previous Western theories of music?

NLM: A Call for Papers on “Music: Its Theologies and Spiritualities—A Global Perspective” by Gregory DiPippo

Sitting During the Homily

This is a stsandard practice in Byzantine churches; what is to be done if there are no pews or chairs? I have seen people sit on the floor or carpet, "Indian-style" (that term is undoubtedly not PC these days) but that seems to me to be rather questionable and unrefined, especially since people do not take their shoes off before they enter a temple. Sitting "Japanese" style or seiza seems preferable as one is more mobile and one will not get one's bottom dirty because of a dirty floor or carpet, and it looks a bit more dignified. Did Jews ever sit in the Temple? How did they sit, if at all, when listening to a teacher /rabbi?

"Why Beauty Matters," Dana Gioia

The Way of Beauty

CWR: Finding the Way of Beauty by Carrie Gress, Ph.D.
Author and artist David Clayton on living the “via pulchritudinis” in our daily lives.

Way of Beauty (which is being used at the DSPT for a new course)