Ruth Apollonia's Blog - Posts Tagged "restless-hearts"
August 2021
I recently returned from the Catholic Marketing Network/Catholic Writers Guild conference that was held near Chicago (a video is to come on my Ruth Apollonia YouTube channel!). During the last session a question emerged: What is the 'side door' in secular publishing that would allow Catholic fiction to be published by one of the "Big 5" publishers (and, thus, making it more available and helping to make a re-birth of Catholic Arts & Letters)?
I propose that the answer is truth and beauty. No one is more equipped to offer the world wisdom and knowledge than a Catholic who, adhering to the timeless teachings of the Church and open to the gifts of the Holy Spirit and grounded in the understanding of humanity's true enemy, is not afraid to present Truth in an imaginative and compelling way; to bring light to the darkness.
Jesus taught through parables, so let's remind ourselves of the power of story and the need of every soul to "rest in God" (as St. Augustine would attest) and that those hearts will continue to be "restless" as long as there is a void that needs filling. Can it be filled by Fiction? The secular world can try, but with Catholic Fiction, it is the truth behind the story that fills them, not the story itself. Timeless truths--from natural law to Truth itself--will help to fill the void.
If there is to be an emergence of Catholic Arts & Letters in the secular world, I think it will take the secular world recognizing its own hunger. So, secular world, when your awareness elevates, Catholic Fiction is here to satiate your hunger!
Blessings,
Ruth Apollonia
I propose that the answer is truth and beauty. No one is more equipped to offer the world wisdom and knowledge than a Catholic who, adhering to the timeless teachings of the Church and open to the gifts of the Holy Spirit and grounded in the understanding of humanity's true enemy, is not afraid to present Truth in an imaginative and compelling way; to bring light to the darkness.
Jesus taught through parables, so let's remind ourselves of the power of story and the need of every soul to "rest in God" (as St. Augustine would attest) and that those hearts will continue to be "restless" as long as there is a void that needs filling. Can it be filled by Fiction? The secular world can try, but with Catholic Fiction, it is the truth behind the story that fills them, not the story itself. Timeless truths--from natural law to Truth itself--will help to fill the void.
If there is to be an emergence of Catholic Arts & Letters in the secular world, I think it will take the secular world recognizing its own hunger. So, secular world, when your awareness elevates, Catholic Fiction is here to satiate your hunger!
Blessings,
Ruth Apollonia
