Gallery @ MOSAIC

In an online reflection, Brother Lee Colombino, S.J. of Loyola University suggests that "when we think of art and spirituality, our first instinct might be to think only of explicitly religious imagery. After all," he writes, "what would our experience of Christianity be without Michaelangelo's paintings in the Sistine Chapel or Eastern Orthodox Icons? However, we should also be open to finding an experience of God in works of art that may not have any specific religious content." One might also suggest that this includes all aspects of our world.

If we believe that God is the creator of all things and is present in all things, we might apply this same understanding of finding the Divine in everyone and everything with whom and with which we come in contact. How might a lens like this change how we view the world? God?

Brother Colombino suggests that by "being open and attentive to finding God in all things and by engaging imaginative prayer, art can draw us more deeply into our hearts and minds - and into an encounter with God." We agree.

Read the entire reflection here.