Opus Dei

Cinema is “an intersection of desires, memories and questions,” Pope Leo XIV tells us. Here are a few suggestions for turning our time in front of a screen into genuine moments of contemplation.

“In weeping for the fate of their characters,” Pope Francis wrote in his letter on the role of literature in formation, “we are essentially weeping for ourselves.” From Jesus’ parables to modern novels, literature has always had a mysterious influence on our interior world.

From singing songs “of human love in a divine way” to praising God in the liturgy, here are some ways our everyday relationship with music can take shape.

This is the beginning of a series on the arts as spaces for spiritual life. In this first article, we will consider how the Incarnation — the fact that God chose to take on a physical form — reveals the true value of the material world, and, with it, the potential of the arts.