Art and Study

Christians pursue Beauty and Truth as intrinsically valuable, not because they are useful. Because all Beauty comes from God and all Truth descends from the knowledge of the Holy, when Christians lend their creativity to join the art and the song, they express their Maker's image. When they study, they take seriously the admonition that, while it is God's glory to conceal a matter, it is humans' glory to search it out. At the abbey, we cultivate places to study, to reflect, to pursue wisdom. We patronize artists and artisans whose work fires our imagination and reminds us of truths we once knew but have forgotten.