"I might as well admit something about prayer from the very start:  sometimes when I read a formal prayer, from memory or with a prayer book, I find my mind wandering.  Somehow, I can’t always keep my mind focused.  For times like these, I sometimes revert to “visual prayer”:  the process of praying to God while imagining myself visually within a spiritual scene that I remember from meditating on a work of art.  My two books on art and God, Pilgrimage to the Museum and Visions of the Divine, are both in some form “visual prayer books”; they provide the reader with reflections on dozens of artistic masterpieces that can lead him or her more intimately to the Divine.  Beautiful art can do this.  Afterall, God is Beauty. And artists, given the talent to describe beauty, are in some mysterious way communicating with Him through their art—even when they don’t fully realize what they are doing."

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Question to ponder: How comfortable would you be in making the sign of the cross in public?

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