The term “art” in its broadest sense includes countless creative endeavors and although they can be used for many purposes, the primary purpose of the arts, like all human activity, is to draw people closer to God.
Satisfying Our Thirst
Our Mother Mary
The Beautiful Story
Perhaps Beauty is the defining characteristic of Christianity, if so then its loss would would be devastating. We see all around us what happens when Beauty is exiled from our liturgies. And perhaps that is what Dostoevsky was trying to tell us, it was not a prophetic statement but a plea, Beauty will save the world, but only if we allow it to.
