A huge angel appears to resemble something out of a bad dream (I cannot understand its large rib cage). It would be laughable if it wasn’t so important.īriefly, it portrays the Blessed Mother, in what resembles a sarcophagus, looking like a reincarnation of an Egyptian Queen. The 2020 Vatican Christmas Creche, in my opinion, falls significantly short of the mark. John of Damascus (Damascene, born 675 – died 749) were successfully used during the Second Council of Nicaea (787), to explain these points and to explode the errors of the iconoclasts then, and, today. The Roman Catholic, Greek and Russian Orthodox, and the twenty-six ethnic Rites in union with Rome, have never worshipped sacred images we venerate them in the same way we remember our loved ones.Ĭhristian sacred art snaps our attention back to the preeminent Lover and Loved One, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The writings of St. It acts in the same way as photographs which are remembrances of loved ones, activities, friends, places, and personalities. The sacred art of the Church does not demean its history, Scriptures, dogma, traditions, and visual or musical arts. Sacred art personalizes the Truths of the Church. It accomplishes that goal by being beautiful, good, and truthful as well as being spiritually transcendent. It is clear in proclaiming the Gospel of Christ and the witness of His faithful followers. Successful and reverent sacred art instructs and edifies the mind and soul of the viewer to those basic truths.Ĭhristian sacred art does not confuse it is not duplicitous. The purpose of sacred art (in both the Latin and Greek Rites of the Catholic Church, and the cultural Rites in union with Rome) is to edify and remind the viewer of the events surrounding the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. It is not sacred art it is secular art masquerading as sacred. The current crèche is presumed to be an example of modern Christian sacred art. I believe that the Christmas crèche that was unveiled this past week, with the approval of certain high ranking Vatican authorities, is atrocious. There are times that it must be done, this is one of them. I rarely use the first person pronoun in this blog. Within the last fifty years people with specific agendas have changed that tradition. It combined different elements of the Nativity found in Sacred Scripture into one scene that conveys spiritual and historical truth to the viewer. He believed that it would edify and improve prayerful worship of Jesus, the moment of His Nativity, and subsequent events.įor approximately 800 years the Christmas crèche has been portrayed in a respectful and accurate way. Francis of Assisi was the first to promote the display of the birth of Our Lord. The Vatican, last week, unveiled the 2020 Christmas crèche in St.
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