{"id":15206,"date":"2020-01-18T21:23:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T21:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/1s2s3v5m6\/?page_id=15206"},"modified":"2022-04-04T14:20:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T18:20:04","slug":"the-way-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ssvmusa.org\/index.php\/catholic-culture\/the-way-of-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way of Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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“You are the custodians of beauty in the world”
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Beauty as a Way to God for our Contemporary World<\/h3>

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) excelled in the Scholastic tradition of the\u00a0via<\/em>, the \u201cway,\u201d\u00a0especially to demonstrate ways to find God through reason alone. \u00a0In the\u00a0Summa Theologica<\/em>\u00a0I, Q. 2, art. 3, we find the famous Five Ways to reach a proof of God from various first principles of reality known to all, such as causality, primacy of act over potency, and degrees of perfection. In recent times, relativist philosophy and a growing\u00a0cultural distance from Christianity in many places of the Western world have made the Five Ways somewhat inaccessible for many of our contemporaries. \u00a0If one lives in a post-Kantian closed world where aspirations for the transcendental are to be pitied and we must simply settle for alternative immanent goals of this life\u2026then arguments from causality are null and void, and reason is no longer\u00a0capax Dei<\/em>\u00a0(\u201ccapable of [reaching] God\u201d).<\/p>

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Beauty then has a place to play as a less threatening and more immediately accessible point of encounter with the transcendental and the highest spiritual experiences. \u00a0While pure emotion and a dreamy \u201cfeeling\u201d of God does not amount to faith, it can be a bridge to allow non-believing contemporaries (or even most luke-warm Christians) to begin to seek out with an intimate interior honesty the Other who is God.<\/p>

By committing\u00a0ourselves and those in our apostolate to an experience of beauty in the liturgy, through choral groups,\u00a0ecclesiastical embroidery\u00a0and value for the fine arts in museums, we wish to help develop a \u201ctaste\u201d for the beautiful whereby we may become participants in the creative work of God and thus find Him and honor Him\u2026even in the midst of war and poverty. \u00a0<\/p>

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Music Concert in Aleppo, Syria in January 2014<\/a><\/p>

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Concert held at the IVE Major Seminary of Maria Madre del Verbo Encarnado in Argentina in November 2014 honoring the musical compositions of the Jesuit reductions (16th and 17th century missions in Paraguay, Uraguay and Argentina). \u00a0The choir of the Religious Family sang along side professional musicians and singers.<\/span><\/p>

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Gregorian Chant for Children:\u00a0<\/a>the Ward Method at the Catholic University of America is brought to California in April 2014<\/p>

Fr. Rodrigo Miranda, IVE describes the Doctors of the Church in the large portraits he painted for the seminary chapel in Argentina. \u00a0We are blessed to have several artists in our Religious Family.<\/p>