Went to a lecture given by Fr. Shawn McKnight on the roots of the liturgy and how powerful symbol is because it can express many things while being one thing. For example the crucifix. He asked a group of schoolchildren what it means to them and got scores of answers: "love", "suffering", "fidelity", "faith", "devotion" and all are true.
Former Columbus pastor Msgr. Joseph Fete once wrote:
Devotional prayer and meditation as well as the sacred liturgy have relied on the efficacy of "visual theology" since the time of the catacombs. In an increasingly pictorial age, the science of theology may now be tuning in to this visual channel... art is more than pretty pictures - it is a way of doing theology. It is our Christian tradition.
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