Installation by Filippo Rossi & Susan Kanaga: Museo dell\u2019Opera del Duomo, Firenze 10 May-11 June 2017<\/p>\n
edited by Timothy Verdon<\/p>\n
The Community of Jesus, located in the United States of America, at Orleans, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, is a monastery in the Benedictine tradition that from its foundation in the late 1950s has, step by step, grown ever more deeply committed to the arts. Sacred music, the visual arts and theatre have become the currency with which we, as a religious family, contribute to human spiritual growth.<\/p>\n
Years of travel with our professional choir to Europe opened our eyes to the riches in history, culture and contemporary energies that reveal the work of the Holy Spirit in talented people to glorify God. Desiring both to deepen our own roots and to promote exchanges of art and spirituality with Europe, in 2013 we founded an arts center in Tuscany, in the hill town of Barga, near Lucca, which promotes ecumenical conversation through scholarly papers and presentations, applied work in the sacred arts, and the creation and exhibition of Christian art. We gave the center the name \u2018Mount Tabor\u2019, recalling Christ\u2019s transfiguration.<\/p>\n
It is in the framework of our Barga \u2018Centre for Art and Spirituality\u2019 that Susan Kanaga, CJ, a Protestant American woman, and Filippo Rossi, an Italian Catholic man, have begun to work together on projects that \u2018transfigure\u2019 matter, rendering visible the spiritual potential of created things, their vocation to manifest the beauty and goodness of the Creator, and the capacity of art to nourish faith and prayer.<\/p>\n
Kanaga\u2019s and Rossi\u2019s work together is a breathtaking example of how ecumenical collaboration can reveal and communicate the great truths which unite all Christians and gifts the world with a shared beauty connecting all persons of good will.<\/p>\n
The installation was realized on the occasion of the 5th centenary of the Protestant Reformation (1517-2017) during the international symposium \u201cThe Arts and Ecumenism\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":894,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[99],"product_tag":[1598,1599],"class_list":["post-895","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-catalogues","product_tag-contemporary-art","product_tag-sacred-art","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n