A Vocation in Beauty: How Music Is Restoring the Sacred in a Secular Age

Our culture’s loss of the sense of the sacred is countered by the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship, which describes its mission as “opening the door of beauty to God.” The twofold strategy is: “providing practical resources for more beautiful and reverent liturgies” and “energizing a Catholic culture of the arts,” as stated on the website, through retreats, Masses, collaborative projects, and the Reverent Liturgy Project.