These two Masses present a different theological understanding of worship because as we listen to them, we notice elements such as polyphony or chant or other materialities of music that make themselves manifest to us and open us up to the presence of God where space allows us to encounter…

Worship makes it possible to engage with an image as an “icon” because as the author Jean Luc Marion describes, the image as we understand doesn’t connect to reality but that the true image or “icon” especially in Christian art can point towards salvation and God. He brings this up…

Christian worship, especially in the liturgy, is not solely focused on the individual and their needs but is heavily focused on the unified practice of the church as a whole. Guardini mentions the idea and problem of expressive individualism and how we should define liturgy as a “unified body” and…

Beauty and divine revelation are very interconnected. One can not survive without the other if we are to live harmoniously and ascend to God and surrender ourselves to the world. Balthasar touches on this idea by stating that Christian thinkers began with depreciating the ladder when thinking about beauty so…

As a painter, I have been doing art for years now. Watercolor, oil, acrylic: all mediums I’ve incorporated to bring beauty to life on a canvas. A piece of art that has truly captured the essence of beauty in my eyes is Salvador Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory”. This surrealist…