Franciscan University Presents “Art and Beauty in the Catholic Tradition” With guest Stanley Konopka Reflections on Beauty “We no longer dare to believe in beauty, and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Our situation...
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Franciscan University Presents “Art and Beauty in the Catholic Tradition” With guest Stanley Konopka Reflections on Beauty “We no longer dare to believe in beauty, and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. We can be sure that whoever sneers at her name as if she were the ornament of a bourgeois past—whether he admits it or not—can no longer pray and soon will no longer be able to love.” ― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Seeing the Form “When man comes into contact with God, mere speech is not enough. Areas of his existence are awakened that spontaneously turn into song ... and so he invites the whole of creation to become a song with him: ‘Awake, my soul! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will aw
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