The Archdiocese of Glasgow, Scotland, has launched an arts festival designed to provide a forum whereby artists can explore the faith through music, visual arts and theater. “In all of this,” writes Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow, founder of Lentfest, “the Church proposes to a wide audience various aspects of the Christian message; a message which is one of liberation and beauty, of freedom and forgiveness, of hope and redemption.”

Cardinal Ravasi, of the Pontifical Council of Culture, stated, “Indeed this essential encounter of faith and culture creates a continually renewing dialogue in which the treasures and insights of Christian experience purify and take on new shapes and forms in the changing cultural circustances of our times, encouraging society to be centered on the dignity of each and every human person and their potential to flourish.”

The highlight of this year’s Lentfest will be an exhibition of the Stations of the Cross and Resurrection, as well as a traveling production of the Martyrdom of St. John Ogilvie.

We are preparing for our second VISUAL PRAYERS Exhibit which will take place on Sunday, June 3 of this year.  The LENTFEST launched in Glasgow so well expresses what we hope to see realized by our Exhibit:  to give a face to the timeless reality of the beauty of faith in the culture of every age!   Come and visit our  Benincasa Gallery in New Castle and see some  images of  faith created by our Dominican Nuns in the US and Canada.