5 Fridays 10:30-11:30am (UVA Location: Minor Hall Auditorium)
Beauty is an experience we all seem to recognize...yet it frequently escapes explanation, even in an academic setting! In one hour-long discussions students and faculty will explore how the Catholic faith perspective reveals something different: Beauty’s urgent and transforming call to respond to the greatest Reality.
All students are invited to register for this free, faculty-led minicourse. Prior experience not necessary, only an openness to considering the call and response to beauty in nature, art, liturgy, the every day of a life lived well. Sign-up using this form or by emailing Dr. Jocelyn Moore at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
February 10: Who is the Artist? John Paul II, "Letter to Artists" (1999)
February 17: Revelation of Beauty in Christ & the Eucharist. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, "The Feeling of Things, the Contemplation of Beauty" (2002); Selections from Benedict XVI, Sacramentum Caritatis (2007)
February 24: How Can an Image of a Crucifixion be Beautiful? Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, “The Question of Images" (2000)
March 3: Sacramental Beauty in the "Ordinary" Moments of a Life Well-Lived. Angela O’Donnell, “The Sacrament of Beauty,” Mortal Blessings (2015)