{"id":24916,"date":"2009-09-03T18:55:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T22:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/09\/our-vision-baited-to-behold-go\/"},"modified":"2009-09-03T18:55:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T22:55:27","slug":"our-vision-baited-to-behold-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/09\/our-vision-baited-to-behold-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Our vision baited to behold God&#8217;s beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Christ%20in%20Glory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2009\/09\/Christ in Glory-thumb-250x373-4522.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"373\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Our methods of entering the divine mysteries are varied: some<br \/>\nuse the spoken or written word (poet, some use photography, some will engage nature,<br \/>\nsome may use music &amp; dance and still others will use the time-honored<br \/>\ntradition of icons. Jesuit Father Stephen Bonian takes us through a variety of<br \/>\nfitting understandings of iconography and their use for prayer in his article,<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/content\/article.cfm?article_id=11272\"><span style=\"color:black;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\">Gateways to Prayer<\/span><\/a>.&#8221;<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For we see &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;In God&#8217;s beauty, all the earth is sanctified.<br \/>Tree and stone, wood and paint have glory<br \/>In His beauty.<br \/>Creation is transformed;<br \/>The fallen is made holy.<br \/>And man, beholding Beauty&#8217;s vision,<br \/>Shares His life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">(&#8220;On the Beauty of God&#8221; by an anonymous Orthodox author)<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our methods of entering the divine mysteries are varied: some use the spoken or written word (poet, some use photography, some will engage nature, some may use music &amp; dance and still others will use the time-honored tradition of icons. Jesuit Father Stephen Bonian takes us through a variety of fitting understandings of iconography and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/09\/our-vision-baited-to-behold-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our vision baited to behold God&#8217;s beauty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,12,32],"tags":[2173,2175,1791],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}