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As an artist, utilizing a variety of processes, as well as a catechist, it is my desire to help all people of faith deepen their experience of God through beauty in the Catholic tradition.
Why Beauty?
An Ancient Hunger Ever New
For the Love of Beauty is inspired by St. Augustine’s reference to God as ‘Beauty’ in his Confessions (X, 27) when he writes, “Late have I loved Thee, O Beauty, so ancient and so new.”
His name for God is both poetic and revealing. Beauty has been defined, since ancient times, as that which is perfectly ordered or that which is as it should be. Both definitions reflect a profound truth about God: that He is perfection, and His perfection is beautiful.
God intentionally designed us to be moved by beauty so that we might be drawn to Him and experience His presence.
It is for the love of Beauty that I try to cut through some the most common obstacles to experiencing art and beauty, so that beauty is experienced as it should be: an alluring splendor creating accessible and joyfully pathways into the heart of God.
My articles, aiming for 1-3 a month, will contain my reflections on how to facilitate these pathways to God using my own artwork and photography (unless otherwise noted) classical works of art, as well as commentary from time to time on images in the culture and how they either lead us towards or away from God. This way we can be more intentional with what we fix our gaze upon.
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Looking forward to seeing you onboard! If you have any questions or topics you’d like covered, drop me a line!
Visitor etiquette and copyright note.
I know pictures are pretty, it’s literally why I do this work, which is a labor of the heart. If you want to share anything I produce whether it’s images or text, wonderful! It is my hope that you do, but by using the SHARE buttons on each post and share the entire link of content. Please do not remove images from my posts to use in your own. Not only does it create orphan images online but and damages incentive for new content creation. Please get written permission first from me if you’d like to share any of my work. Thank you!
To find out more about my work to reintegrate beauty and prayer, along with my shop that is stocked with exclusive prayer aids and quality reproductions of my work, visit FortheLoveofBeauty.com.
Thanks, again, for stopping by!
~Renata Grzan Wieczorek, MA Theology
