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Visio Divina: Clothed with the Power of the Holy Spirit

By Carey | May 30, 2025May 30, 2025 by Carey

And behold I am sending the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high. – Luke 24:49 Have you ever prayed with sacred art before? Visio divina is the practice of “divine seeing.” We practice lectio divina, or “divine reading,” when we slowly read and prayerfully meditate on sacred Scripture. In the same way, we can encounter Jesus by prayerfully reflecting on sacred…

Beauty that Saves

By Carey | March 5, 2021February 25, 2021 by Carey

Those who perceive in themselves this kind of divine spark which is the artistic vocation—as poet, writer, sculptor, architect, musician, actor and so on—feel at the same time the obligation not to waste this talent but to develop it, in order to put it at the service of their neighbour and of humanity as a whole. – Letter of St. Pope John Paul II to Artists To be a true artist is to be inspired…