A House of God

By Christopher Mahon

February 1, 2015

In making ready a physical building for the fruitful life of a family, Christopher Mahon writes, we mirror the Church's use of liturgical beauty to make us ready to be present to God

Whether dressing oneself, decorating a home or building up the culture of the home, God calls his children to appreciate and foster an authentic order and beauty In building the common aesthetic of our social environment, we not only provide a home for our families but also educate our children in the importance and power of beauty After all, in a society that increasingly undervalues human dignity, obscures the distinction between the human and the animal, and rejects human dominion and stewardship, it is far from universally acknowledged that man ought to rework his environment to his own ends in the first place, even so as to make it a home, beautiful and accommodating Prior to the fall of man, our home was Eden, that beautiful garden, "pleasant to the sight," that God had made Another such group, formed of a few young families and new Catholics working to start an urban parish with a charismatic focus on and heart for liturgical beauty, might even be said to have had a moving experience similar to that of my good old friends

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