Totus Tuus Podcast28 Tammi 2025

EP 1 | God, Beauty, Ugliness & Notre Dame | Fr. Lawrence Lew O.P.

In this inaugural podcast episode, Gabriel Daniel Ho, President of Totus Tuus Apostolate discusses with Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P., on the relevance of Beauty and Sacred Art in the Catholic Church and in the wider Culture today.

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Timestamps

(00:00) - Introduction

(01:28) - What is a 'Promoter General of the Holy Rosary'?(02:43) - Fr. Lawrence Lew's Photography Journey

(05:00) - The Crisis of Ugliness

(09:04) - External Beauty & Moral Ugliness

(11:28) - The Role of Beauty

(11:59) - Dichotomy of Interior Vs Exterior

(13:01) - Dualism & the Devil

(15:57) - Fallacy towards Beauty

(18:06) - Why is God called Beauty?

(19:33) - St. Thomas Aquinas definition on 'Being'

(20:58) - The 3 Canons of beauty, according to St. Thomas Aquinas

(22:58) - Restored Notre Dame

(24:31) - People get offended because "Beauty is subjective"

(25:29) - Culture now is "allergic" to Truth

(27:09) - What is the line between Objective Truth and Beauty versus arbitrary opinion

(30:07) - Modernity values subjectivity and not objectivity

(30:51) - Subjectivity is problematic because it shifts power from God to man

(31:30) - Why does man not come to recognise objective beauty?

(35:01) - There is a mismatch of man and understanding of art

(37:20) - Inspiration behind Fr Lawrence's book

(40:26) - The impact of the Eucharistic Revival as inspiration for the book

(42:47) - Pope Francis opening the Jubilee Doors and the point of having a Church building

(43:33) - The Restoration of the High Altar at St Dominic's Priory and the subsequent celebration of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

(49:01) - Particular aspects of the book that Fr Lawrence likes

(50:25) - Colour as symbolism

(51:33) - The 2 doors by which people enter the Faith

(54:11) - Beauty and its appeal to the masses

(58:06) - What are the implications to the moral life of mistaking ugliness as beauty

(59:01) - Warning against appreciating exterior beauty and having a corrupt interior

(1:02:42) - Sinners need beautiful things to remind us of God's presence

(1:03:04) - Fr Lawrence's future endeavours

(1:04:58) - Outro

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