94: What Even Is Beauty? Part 2 (with Fr. Gregory Maria Pine, OP)
Do Something Beautiful
Leah Darrow
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It's part 2 of our talk with Fr. Gregory Maria Pine, OP!
We pick back up with a conversation about finding beauty in our ordinary lives, and explore the demands of beauty and how knowing things helps us appreciate their beauty more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Do Something Beautiful podcast. I am your host Leah Darrow and I share with you |
| 0:07.4 | inspirational people who are truly doing something beautiful to make our world better. |
| 0:12.2 | We are inspired by Mother Teresa who said do something |
| 0:15.6 | beautiful for God. Do it with your life. Do it every day. Do it in your own way. |
| 0:19.8 | But do it. |
| 0:26.0 | All right, my friends, we are back. This is part two of my conversation with Father Gregory Maria Pine. |
| 0:32.0 | So if you haven't heard the first part, honestly, I promise you, go ahead and press pause and listen to the first part of this conversation. |
| 0:40.0 | We had a great long chat, so that's why we divided this up into two episodes just for you. |
| 0:46.0 | Better to just think and pray with everything that Father Gregory has to say. |
| 0:50.4 | He gives us so many little gems in here. |
| 0:52.8 | So I can't wait for you to hear the second part, so go ahead and take a listen and enjoy. |
| 0:57.8 | How do we see and encounter those moments of beauty when, I guess in our everyday life, when we're not on that hike, |
| 1:09.7 | we're not able to escape from our beautiful families and the chaos that they bring so quickly and easily. |
| 1:18.7 | How do we experience and encounter beauty then to have or at least position ourselves in a place where we can be more |
| 1:26.3 | receptive to God. Yeah that's that's a good question. The short answer is I |
| 1:31.2 | don't know the long answer is I have some faint notions. |
| 1:35.5 | Our chapel in Washington, D.C. We have beautiful stained glass window on one side of the chapel and then on the other |
| 1:40.8 | side of the chapel it's just more simple kind of like geometric type |
| 1:44.3 | stained glass. I sit on the side of the chapel that looks at the stained glass windows which are more simple. |
| 1:50.5 | And whenever, you know, whenever our seating gets kind of shifted for mass or this, that or the other, I'm looking at these beautiful stained glass windows on the other side of the chapel at which I on which I sit, I'm like, man, I picked the wrong seat or I was assigned the wrong seat by my prior, you know. |
| 2:06.1 | But recently, yeah, I mean, we often use images right to kind of direct us in prayer to keep us |
| 2:12.2 | focus because our passions and our minds and hearts are overactive and they have objects which are external to our interior life and so kind of drive us outwards or make us think of our daily affairs and |
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