The Transformative Power of Divine Beauty | Fr. Uwe Michael Lang, C.O.

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🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 20, 2022 at The Christian Heritage Centre at Stonyhurst as part of "Catholicism and the Arts: An Intellectual Retreat." For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Uwe Michael Lang, a native of Nuremberg, Germany, is a priest of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in London, where he serves as Parish Priest. He holds a Mag.Theol. from the University of Vienna (Austria) an S.T.L. from the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium) and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. He teaches at Allen Hall Seminary in London, is an Associate Staff member at the Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, a Visiting Fellow at St Mary's University, Twickenham, and has been on the Visiting Faculty of the Liturgical Institute in Mundelein, Illinois. Formerly staff member of Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (2008–2012) and Consultor to the Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff (2008–2013). He is a Board Member of the Society for Catholic Liturgy and the Editor of Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal.

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0:11.1	Let's start with a prayer, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
0:16.5	Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful, and kindle in them the fire of thy love.
0:21.3	Send forth thy spirit, and they shall be created.
0:24.4	Let us pray.
0:27.8	O God, to taught the hearts of the faithful through the light of the Holy Spirit,
0:32.0	grant us in the same spirit to be truly wise and ever rejoice in his consolation through Christ our Lord.
0:39.7	Our lady's seat of wisdom.
0:41.7	St. Dominic.
0:43.9	St. Philip Neri.
0:45.9	St. Thomas.
0:47.5	Aquinas.
0:48.1	The Father and the son of the Holy Spirit.
1:02.4	And I'd like to begin this reflection on the transformative power of divine beauty with the topic of deification and theosis,
1:08.1	which I believe can grant us a theological ground for what we want to think and pray about during these days.
1:20.1	We have just celebrated the mysteries of the sacred Tridium and are in the middle of the Easter octave.
1:31.3	These are the most important days, really, of our liturgical year.
1:39.3	And reflecting on what we have celebrated, what we have experienced in our prayer, it seems to me that as Catholics we sometimes have a better understanding of what Christ came to save us from,
1:50.8	sin, evil, death, than what he came to save us for.
1:57.3	In Dante's Divine Comedy, we'll hear more about this from George Corbett, it seems the raw imagery of the inferno engages us more than the ethereal vision of the paradiso.
2:11.4	Now, the Eastern tradition, Eastern Christian tradition, has a bold answer to the question what Christ came to save us for in the
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