In this week’s listening, I best connected with James MacMillan’s work because of the dynamic sounds. To contrast this, I decided to also listen to John Tavener’s work as my second mass. I don’t know a ton about music in general, so intelligibly stating my opinions on it is stressful…

In order to understand how worship makes it possible to engage with an image as an icon, it is important to distinguish between a regular image and an icon. An image is a picture in which we see something that is not really there, allowing us to gaze without any…

In my experience with Christian worship, specifically liturgy, playfulness is extremely prevalent. Symbol closely follows after the recent readings, as I was faced with a list of symbolic elements within the faith that I knew, but never spent time contemplating. Festivity took a bit longer for me to comprehend (I…

When I read the question “What does beauty have to do with divine revelation” for this blog, I immediately thought, “How can it really be interpreted as anything but beautiful”. First, looking at the concept of divine revelation itself (without yet bringing in the readings), God is revealing His truths…

In my few years as a design major, I have viewed and appreciated countless works of traditional fine art. My previous art history course even helped me attempt to tackle the beastly question “What is art?”. Therefore, when I saw the first slide of the lecture containing the picture of…