This Lent, beauty may be the very thing that stands in your way.

Beauty becomes a barrier when we stop at the gift instead of passing through it to the Giver. What was meant to be a window to God can slowly become a wall when our desire clings to creation instead of moving beyond it.

Did St John of the Cross despise beauty? He calls creatures nothing. And yet he describes the world as a symphony that gives voice to God Himself. So which is it?

In this video we unpack one of the most misunderstood Catholic mystics and his vision of creation. Drawing from the Spiritual Canticle, the Fall of Adam and Eve, and John's teaching on detachment, we explore how the problem is not the world but our sight.

After the Fall, our vision is clouded. We still see beauty, but we no longer always see through it. Fixation replaces contemplation. Attachment replaces Encounter.

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