2012 Lecture Series

"Art is able to manifest and make visible the human need to surpass the visible,it expresses the thirst and the quest for the infinite. Indeed it resembles a door open on to the infinite, on to a beauty and a truth that go beyond the daily routine. And a work of art can open the eyes of the mind and of the heart, impelling us upward."

-- Pope Benedict XVI

The John Paul II Fellowship and The Saint Cecilia Group proudly present the 2012 lecture series, Painting a Path to Heaven: Art in the Life of Faith. This series of four monthly lectures is designed to explore how we are lifted up by art and beauty, how imagination allows us to perceive it, the vital effect that art and culture have upon our emotional, spiritual, and psychological life and what it means to live a life full of creativity and faith.

14 April 2012

The Healing Power of Beauty: The Role of Art in Reaching the Wounded

Andre Leyva, PhD

12 May 2012

Beautiful Love: Sacred Art and Devotion to God

Alphonso Pinto, PhD

9 June 2012

Moved by Movies: The Transforming Power of Film

Ken Ferguson

14 July 2012

The Beauty of Faith: Reading Art as Lectio Divina

Jem Sullivan, PhD

(with a display of artwork by sculptor Scott Sullivan)