{"id":2260,"date":"2008-12-18T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/12\/beauty-and-truth\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T13:51:00","slug":"beauty-and-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/12\/beauty-and-truth.html","title":{"rendered":"Beauty and Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/SUqcnFGgooI\/AAAAAAAACto\/lW8xAD2AWXI\/s1600-h\/b16.1.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 212px;height: 320px\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/SUqcnFGgooI\/AAAAAAAACto\/lW8xAD2AWXI\/s320\/b16.1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: normal\">Anglo Catholic blogger Jeffrey Steel writes about the need for beautiful music in the liturgy. He quotes Pope Benedict XVI who criticizes music that is chosen merely for its \u2018usefulness\u2019:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>A Church which only makes use of \u2018utility\u2019 music has fallen for what is, in fact, useless. She too becomes ineffectual. For her mission is a fair higher one\u2026The Church must not settle down with what is merely comfortable and serviceable at the parish level; she must arouse the voice of the cosmos and, by glorifying the Creator, elicit the glory of the cosmos itself, making it also glorious, beautiful, habitable and beloved. Next to the saints, the art which the Church has produced is the only real \u2018apologia\u2019 for her history\u2026The Church is to transform, improve, \u2018humanize\u2019 the world\u2013but how can she do that if at the same time she turns her back on beauty, which is so closely allied to love? <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read the whole blog post <a href=\"http:\/\/frjeffreysteel.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/benedict-xvi-and-utility-of-music.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anglo Catholic blogger Jeffrey Steel writes about the need for beautiful music in the liturgy. He quotes Pope Benedict XVI who criticizes music that is chosen merely for its \u2018usefulness\u2019: A Church which only makes use of \u2018utility\u2019 music has fallen for what is, in fact, useless. She too becomes ineffectual. 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