What is Ars Sacra?
Ars Sacra is Latin for Sacred Art.
We believe that every Catholic should have access to Sacred Art and know how it compliments the liturgical year.
Through an easy single app download to your electronic device, Ars Sacra provides you with unique pieces of Sacred Art which automatically change daily.
Each piece of Sacred Art, painted by over 200 of the world’s most accomplished Masters, is curated to provide beautiful insight into each Liturgical Day. The color frame around each piece of art also ties to the vestment color for that day.
Sacred Art can be used in Visio Divina prayer and meditation each day to reflect on beautiful art and how it relates to the daily readings and liturgical celebrations.
Behold the Man by Antonio Ciseri (1871))
Make your personal electronics a source of Beauty and Inspiration for prayer and meditation.
Sacred Art updated Daily to compliment each Liturgical Day
Click on Image to see full artwork in closer detail
Click on Artist name to learn more about artist
Click on Responsorial Psalm to access daily readings and a reflection video
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“Thanks also to the help of artists, the knowledge of God can be better revealed, and the preaching of the Gospel can become clearer to the human mind.”
— St. John Paul II Letter to Artists (1999)
What does the Church say about Sacred Art?
“Art is able to manifest and make visible the human need to surpass the visible, it expresses the thirst and the quest for the infinite.”
— Pope Benedict XVI General Audience address (2011)
“Artistic creation completes, in a certain sense, the beauty of Creation, and when it is inspired by faith reveals more clearly to people the divine love which is its origin.”
— Pope Francis address to the Diakonia of Beauty Association (2022)
“Genuine Sacred Art draws man to adoration, to prayer and to the love of God, Creator and Savior, the Holy One and Sanctifier.”
— Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part 3, Article 8, Section VI (2502) Truth, Beauty and Sacred Art
“Very rightly the fine arts are considered to rank among the noblest activities of man’s genius, and this applies especially to religious art and to its highest achievement, which is Sacred Art.”
— Vatican II Sacrosanctum Concilium Chapter VII - Sacred Art and Sacred Furnishings (1963)
“The Church, in her liturgy, takes hold of time itself and sanctifies it. Sacred art, in harmony with the liturgical year, provides the visible splendor that lifts the soul to the mysteries it represents.”
— Dom Prosper Guéranger – The Liturgical Year (19th c.)