Inspirational watching which compels the laity to return week after week and upwards to 90% of them when this was the only way to see the Mass! (As an aside, please note the proper way the altar boy holds the chasuble at the elevation!!! That's how to do it!!!!! Understated!)
Blah watching which repels the laity and leads to fewer and fewer laity attend Mass each week so much so that only 5% to 20% of Catholics actually bother to attend and a significant number of these close their eyes so as not to get eye injury!
When there is beauty and a visual experience of wonder and all, capturing the religious imagination, attendance increases, but when it is banal, ugly and blah, no one's imagination is captured and there is a notable drop in attendance as we have seen since the Mass was reformed after Vatican II.
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I'm all for beauty.
Define it for us...
I am sure you took Humanities in college, I had three quarters of it. Thus, do you homework and report back to us. We will await to hear from you.
Sorry, Charlie, that's a diversion. I've done my homework, far more than a meagre 3/4.
You want beauty, as do we all. But you also want to define what is beautiful AND what others ought to find beautiful.
That's where your argument falls apart.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some think the ornate baroque is the epitome of beauty, some find it repulsive. Some are carried away with the beauty of plain chant, others prefer a different style.
So, you can gush about "beauty" all you want, and you can run away from the fatal flaw of your argument all you want. Maybe go back and get a better understand of what constitutes beauty than three-fourths of an understanding...
I recommend you go and talk to visual artists and those in the movie and television professions to help you understand what I am indicating. It appears from your musings that you are no expert in germs or liturgy let alone visual arts. Go do you homework and report back to us.
Ah, it would not be a day with sunshine unless Father Snark shows up
Keep diverting, Fr. ALLAN McDonald. And now "germs"? Really?
Since you seem to have such an expansive understanding of beauty, based in part on your 3/4 study in college, surely you can give us a definition. It should be easy for a person with such and extensive background.
So, unless you are unable to do so, define beauty for all of us poor, tasteless slobs...
On my blog, I am the teacher you are the student. Please do your homework and stop whining. Report back when you have completed the task given to you.
On your blog you seem unable to define beauty.
When you can do that, get back to us.
F- for your reading and visual skills, blog post is A+ for explaining what is visually beautiful and what isn't as visuals are worth thousands of words.
Fr K when you stop voting for the party of intrinsic evil people may start to take you seriously
Bishops and priests keep running away from the big question: why is it that only 30% of the folks who attend the OF believe in the Real Presence whereas 100% of EF attendees do? If the belief in the Real Presence is vital, then why aren't the bishops studying the EF to learn what about its structure and form promotes belief in the Real Presence? Hey, look, Synod!!!
Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
I recall Pope Benedict XVI saying much the same thing, and wondered at the time if he had read Keats. That beauty is in the eye of the beholder is a cliché which is valid up to a point but does not enshrine a universal truth; to elevate it into a general principle risks plunging us into a morass of relativism where aesthetic awareness has no place and critical faculties are nullified.
It is probably impossible to prove there is an objective standard for beauty. Yet humanity stubbornly holds to the belief that such a standard does indeed exist, and it cannot be proved to be wrong.
"Aesthetic awareness" and "critical faculties."
Whose?
Those who get A+ in my class not F-.
"Those who get A+ in my class not F-."
And that, Fr. ALLAN McDonald, is the problem. The world isn't your class, the Church isn't your class, the diocese isn't your class, even Richmond Hill isn't your class.
But, you're apparently unable to understand this.
How do you know????
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