Can beauty really save the world?

Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky famously wrote that “beauty will save the world.” Pope St. John Paul II echoed that sentiment in his profound “Letter to Artists.”

“My hope for all of you who are artists is that you will have an especially intense experience of creative inspiration,” John Paul wrote. “May the beauty which you pass on to generations still to come be such that it will stir them to wonder! Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.”

My friend Hannah Magnelli, an uber-talented mezzo-soprano, read those words not long before recording her first single, Cinema Paradiso, earlier this year. Her rendition of the song — the love theme from the 1988 Italian film of the same name — is magical.

Hannah, a faithful Catholic, is committed to expressing the three transcendentals in her art: truth, goodness, and beauty.

I encourage you to listen to her song on Spotify and share it with everyone you know. If you don’t have Spotify, you’ll find it on every streaming platform from Apple Music to Amazon Music. If you have none of those, take a listen on Hannah’s YouTube Channel.

Let me know what you think! I’d love to hear from you.

For Life,

Patrick Novecosky
Founder
NovaMedia

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