The Mission
To restore the Church’s encounter with God through Beauty.
WHY THIS MATTERS
For most of the Church’s history, the faith was first encountered, not explained. Beauty shaped the imagination, supported prayer, and made God’s presence tangible before words were needed.
When beauty is no longer primary, faith is often received as an idea rather than an encounter. Over time, this weakens formation and can ultimately lead to a crisis of faith.
BEAUTY IS NOT DECORATION
Beauty has never been an accessory to the Church’s life. It has always been formative.
Every church interior communicates something. The question is what it communicates.
Sacred art, architecture, and light shape how the faith is received before it is explained. They form the imagination and prepare the human person for preaching, doctrine, and sacrament. Beauty does not compete with these realities. It makes receptivity possible.
When the Church’s visual language no longer supports what she proclaims, belief becomes harder to inhabit. What is taught may remain true, but it is no longer reinforced by what is seen or lived. Over time, this weakens the Church’s witness because the conditions that sustain belief have eroded.
Beauty restores those conditions. It gives form to silence, coherence to worship, and stability to memory. It allows the faith to be received not only as information, but as something lived, remembered, and handed on.
ENCOUNTER REQUIRES RECEPTIVITY
Many people today desire God, yet live in conditions that make receptivity difficult. Constant distraction and fragmented attention leave little room for silence, reflection, or prayer.
In these conditions, faith can feel distant or abstract not because it is false, but because people have not been given the space to encounter it.
The Church has always understood that encounter comes before explanation. Beauty helps restore the conditions of attention, reverence, and stillness that allow the heart to open again.
Sacred art does not replace preaching, teaching, or sacrament. It prepares the human person to receive them.
RESPONSIBILITY AND THE LONG VIEW
Beauty is not a matter of taste or preference. It carries responsibility.
The Church forms belief not only through words or programs, but through what endures. Sacred art shapes the imagination over time and influences how the faith is prayed, remembered, and handed on across generations.
For this reason, sacred art cannot be treated as optional or secondary. It belongs to the Church’s evangelizing mission by supporting encounter and giving visual coherence to her witness.
My work exists to serve this responsibility. It is not meant to decorate or impress, but to steward the Church’s visual language with clarity and fidelity, so that beauty may once again support encounter with God and the life of faith.
“Artistic beauty . . . a sort of echo of the Spirit of God, is a symbol pointing to the mystery, an invitation to seek out the face of God made visible in Jesus of Nazareth.”
- Saint John Paul II, Ecclesia in Europa 60