Anastasia, who is Orthodox, writes to caution that too great a focus on beauty in church worship can be spiritually harmful:
Well, yes, beauty is important. The Orthodox Liturgy is very beautiful, and the Catholic mass can sometimes sound like a stripped down McDonald’s version of prayer. But there’s danger lurking here! I bow to the wise words of St. Maria Skobtsova of Paris, in her essay on the “Types of Religious Lives”. An excerpt:
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