Word Art
Quotes about Liturgy, Art, Creativity...
Seeds trys to explore alternative worship forms that engage, challenge
and deepen the dominant culture rather than just buy into it or feed
off it. Good art should both communicate and challenge. Like a parable of
Christ, liturgy should warm our hearts with the familiar, make a respectful nod
tradition, then use this to cut through our sensiblities and defences to take
us on a journey into new realms and possiblities. This is liturgical
risk.
Marcus Curnow
Art is not nice. - Bertolt Brecht
PEOPLE have been THINKING too long that
ART is a privilege of the MUSEUMS &
the RICH.
ART IS NOT BUSINESS!
It does not belong to banks & fancy investors
ART IS FOOD. You cant EAT it BUT it FEEDS
you.
ART has to be CHEAP & available to
EVERYBODY.
It needs to be EVERYWHERE
Because it is the INSIDE of the WORLD.
ART SOOTHES PAIN!
Art wakes up sleepers!
ART FIGHTS AGAINST WAR AND STUPIDITY!
ART SINGS HALLELUJAH!
ART IS FOR KITCHENS!
ART IS LIKE GOOD BREAD!
Art is like green trees!
Art is like white clouds in blue sky!
ART IS CHEAP!
HURRAH!
(The Why Cheap Art Manifesto, Bread and Puppet Theatre, Vermont, 1984)
"We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and
struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to
doubt and reject everything else in order to believe firmly in Christ,
and after you have begun to believe, your faith itself must be tested
and purified. Christianity is not merely a set of forgone conclusions.
Faith tends to be defeated by the burning presence of God in mystery,
and seeks refuge from him, flying to comfortable social forms and safe
convictions in which purification is no longer an inner battle but a
matter of outward gesture."
Thomas Merton
The
theological exploration of biography or the theological reconnaissance of
history are apt, and even normative, styles because each is congruent with the
definitive New Testament insight and instruction: the Incarnation… biography
(and history), any biography and every biography, is inherently theological in
the sense that it contains already – literally by virtue of the incarnation –
the news of the gospel whether or not anyone discerns that. We are each one of us parables.
William Stringfellow : A
Simplicity of Faith
Scholars
have taken the dynamite of the church,
have wrapped it up in nice phraseology,
placed it in a hermetic container
and sat on the lid.
It's about time to blow the lid off.
Peter Maurin, Easy Essays
Living the liturgical day as much as we are able, beginning with
prime, using the missal, ending the day with compline and so going
through the liturgical year we find that it is now not us, but Christ
in us, who is working to combat injustice and oppression.
Dorothy Day
Now if we want to know when there's a crime wave of civil
disobedience coming, we consult the liturgical calendar.
Oakland County
Sheriffs Deputy joking to a reporter, Advent 1983