Anyone who prayed Morning Prayer on Christmas Day in conjunction with looking at the traditional icon would be able to decipher the image.
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My hope is that every person in this parish is catechized so as to understand the images they see. Then, when people visit the church to see the paintings, as they surely will, any parishioner can be a docent who takes them on a tour of the church and in so doing becomes an evangelist for the Faith.
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There is no such thing as music for music’s sake, just as there is no such thing, despite what we are told, as art for art’s sake. The very fact that a composer or artist decides to create something means that it must have some purpose in his mind. Beautiful music and art are so because they fulfill a noble purpose.