Fatherhood, Devotion to Mary, and Catholic Pet Peeves (Sam Guzman) | Ep. 300
Pints With Aquinas
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Is the Mass Just a Utilitarian Function?
i think what happens a lot of times is, socrates talks about like the three transcendentals of goodness, truth and beauty. In the modern world we think beauty is superfluous. It's not necessary. The traditional mass did. Every composer with his salt, like 19 hundred, composed a mass because it just, it was beautiful. You can't love something that's not beautifuln some way to you. And i think if the novisordo has a flaw, it's thatt it celebrates truth and goodness and says, beauty doesn't matter. Beauty is a nice adon, but it really doesn't do anything essential. No, what beauty does inspires love.
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