In this inaugural podcast episode, Gabriel Daniel Ho, President of Totus Tuus Apostolate, discusses with Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P., on the relevance of Beauty and Sacred Art in the Catholic Church and in the wider Culture today.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:28 What is a 'Promoter General of the Holy Rosary'?
02:43 Fr. Lawrence Lew's Photography Journey
05:00 The Crisis of Ugliness
09:04 External Beauty & Moral Ugliness
11:28 The Role of Beauty
11:59 Dichotomy of Interior Vs Exterior
13:01 Dualism & the Devil
15:57 Fallacy towards Beauty
18:06 Why is God called Beauty?
19:33 St. Thomas Aquinas definition on 'Being'
20:58 The 3 Canons of beauty, according to St. Thomas Aquinas
22:58 Restored Notre Dame
24:31 Taking offense because "Beauty is subjective"
25:29 A Culture that is "allergic" to Truth
27:09 The line between Objective Truth & Beauty versus arbitrary opinion
30:07 Modernity values Subjectivity and not Objectivity
30:51 The problem of Subjectivity
31:30 Why does man not come to recognise objective beauty?
35:01 The mismatch of man & understanding of art
37:20 Inspiration behind Fr. Lawrence's book
40:26 The impact of the Eucharistic Revival as inspiration for the book
42:47 Pope Francis opening the Jubilee Doors and the purpose of a Church building
43:33 The Restoration of the High Altar at St. Dominic's Priory & the subsequent celebration of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
49:01: Particular aspects of the book that Fr. Lawrence likes
50:25 Colour as symbolism
51:33 The 2 doors by which people enter the Faith
54:11 Beauty and its appeal to the masses
58:06 The implications to the moral life of mistaking ugliness as beauty
59:01 Warning against appreciating exterior beauty and having a corrupt interior
1:02:42 Sinners need beautiful things to remind us of God's presence
1:03:04 Fr. Lawrence's future endeavours
1:04:58 Outro