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Planning to attend our March Music Conference this Saturday? Now is the time to secure your spot! Ticket sales end on Thursday at noon.

The Thomistic Artists Guild, together with Thomas Aquinas College and the Catholic Institute of Sacred Music, presents:

Music for Worship and Leisure: Musical Beauty in the Life of the Christian in the Light of St. Thomas

Through lectures on the role of music in the liturgy and in daily Christian life, we’ll consider how musical beauty forms the soul. The conference includes addresses from distinguished musicologists, working sessions, and a sung High Mass, as well as meals (dinner included for an extra fee).

Saturday is almost here!
Register now at https://t.co/1XkzdOutFa before ticket sales closes. No tickets will be sold at the door, so sign up today!

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Get hyped! Our March music conference is NEXT WEEK! 🎵

Together with Thomas Aquinas College and the Catholic Institute of Sacred Music, the Thomistic Artists Guild is proud to present Music for Worship and Leisure: Musical Beauty in the Life of the Christian in the Light of St. Thomas.

Along with speaking sessions about the role of music in liturgy and daily life, our conference will include a sung High Mass, with choir members from Thomas Aquinas College and St. Vitus Parish uniting to close out the day with a beautiful example of music as worship. ⛪️🎼

Hurry and buy your tickets today! Slots are going fast - RSVP at https://t.co/1XkzdOutFa

Thomistic Artists Guild. Beautiful Art leads to Virtue.

#thomisticartistsguild #catholicmusic #CatholicArt #Catholic #MusicConference

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Joseph’s clear obedience to God’s will shines in the Holy Family’s story. The Thomistic Artists Guild fosters art that clarifies truth and beauty, evangelizing through every brushstroke. Pray for artists today!

Thomistic Artists Guild. Beautiful art leads to virtue.
#ThomisticArtistsGuild #HolyFamily #ArtForGod #CatholicArt #Catholic

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We at the #ThomisticArtistsGuild are thrilled to host Dr. Byron Adams, a world renowned composer 🎼 who specializes in 19th & 20th century tonal music!
Professor Emeritus at University of California, Riverside, Dr. Adams’ work is steeped in #Thomistic principles and truly personify what St. Thomas was after! His structural clarity and profound emotional depth reflect a deep reverence for beauty through music.

Please join us on Friday, February 13, 2026 at 7pm to an enjoy a short lecture on tonal composition accompanied by a savory fish dinner! Please RSVP to save your seat and receive our meeting location. Seating is limited so grab yours now! https://t.co/OLv2oUDAjk

Thomistic Artists Guild. Beautiful art leads to virtue.
#thomisticartistsguild #thomisticart #catholicart #catholicmusic

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For those who want to make a meaningful change in the world, this is an unusually ripe moment. The standards governing much of modern art have thinned. Rather than seeing this as a tragedy, Catholic artists can view this as an opening. When excellence is no longer demanded, the field is suddenly wide open to those willing to pursue it.

St. Thomas Aquinas reminds us that beauty is not arbitrary. It flows from truth, integrity, and right proportion. These things have not disappeared simply because they are unfashionable. They remain, waiting to be expressed.

Rather than lament the poverty of contemporary taste, we can answer it. We can create work ordered toward the good, illuminated by truth, and marked by real beauty - and do so with fewer obstacles than at almost any other time. This is not the age to withdraw in despair, but to build with confidence, trusting that what is truly beautiful will capture minds and hearts.

Thomistic Artists Guild. Beautiful Art Leads to Virtue. #thomisticartistsguild #thomisticart #catholicart #catholic

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In the Holy Family, we see perfect proportion: Jesus, Mary, and Joseph in unified love, arranged around the center, Jesus. As Thomistic artists, we create works that reflect this divine balance to draw souls upward. #ThomisticArt #HolyFamilyMonth #CatholicBeauty

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“The Way of Divine Beauty is a laborious ascent. There is no shortcut to the highest stair. We must first learn the beauty of the physical world, including the beauty of men in action, men pursuing wholeness, before we can ascend to the Beauty that utterly transcends the realm of human action. That….is the real adventure.”
McInerny, Beauty and Imitation

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Bill Conti is an Academy Award winning composer, whose work includes scores for classic films like Rocky and The Karate Kid. Join us on Monday to hear the world premiere of his latest work, Soprano Saxophone Concerto. Fr. James O’Reilly will be playing the saxophone and will be accompanied by the piano.

📍St. Vitus Catholic Church, Northridge, CA
📅 Monday, January 26, 2026
🕖 7:00pm
🥂Cost: Free! Donations gladly accepted. Bring your friends and family!

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Registration is now OPEN for our music conference in March! Get your tickets here: https://t.co/rXJKTHG54t

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Join the Thomistic Artists Guild for a special winter concert, featuring the World Premiere of Bill Conti’s Soprano Saxophone Concerto!

❄️ Instrument of the Lord: A Winter Concert

📅 January 26, 2026

📍 St. Vitus Catholic Church Parish Hall - 9710 White Oak Ave., Northridge, CA 91352

Featuring:
🎷 Fr. James O'Reilly, FSSP, alto & soprano Saxophone
🎹 Austin Ho, piano
🎤 Isa Tristan, soprano
🎹 Tommy Zapata, piano
🎶 The Humilis Anima Choir

Works to be performed:
Variation sur un thème espagnol, Paul-Agricole Génin
Sonata for Alto Saxophone & Piano, John C. Worley
Psalm XXIII, Byron Adams
Ave Maria, Giulio Caccini
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, J.S. Bach
Three Letter Word, Andy Scott
Prayer of St. Francis, Allen Pote, arranged by Robert Delgado and Isa Tristan
Concerto for Saxophone and Piano, Bill Conti
Gabriel's Oboe, Ennio Morricone

This is a benefit concert. Free will donations will gladly be accepted at the concert. We hope to see you there!

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Modern art asks: What do I feel?
Thomistic art asks: What is the truth about this?

As McInerny notes, imitation trains perception. Artists are in a lifelong process of learning to see the reality as it truly is.

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Wishing you a very joyous Christmas from the Thomistic Artists Guild! 🎄✨🎁
#merrychristmas #christmas #nativity #nativityscene #catholicart

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What is Thomistic art?

Thomistic art is not self-expression.
It is imitation ordered to truth.

Beauty arises when form is faithfully received and expressed.

“God is an artist, and the universe is his work of art.”

#art #CatholicArt #CatholicArtists #ThomisticArt #thomisticartistsguild

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•Music for Worship and Leisure•
Musical Beauty in the Life of the Christian, in the Light of St. Thomas

The Thomistic Artists Guild, Catholic Institute of Sacred Music, and Thomas Aquinas College are partnering for a conference in Southern California at the beginning of March!

📅 March 7th, 2026

📍 St. Vitus Catholic Church Parish Hall - 9710 White Oak Ave., Northridge, CA 91352

📜Join us for an immersive day where we’ll explore the beauty of music!
Conference sessions will focus on different aspects of true leisure (à la Josef Pieper), featuring keynote speakers on philosophical and practical topics which touch on music in the Christian life. We’ll learn what to listen for in music, and develop our abilities to delight in true musical beauty. Participants will also learn to sing a Mass ordinary for a Solemn High Mass for the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas. A festive dinner concludes the day.

Tickets go on sale January 1st, 2026!
🎟️ Full time student rate: $15
🎟️ Full time student + dinner rate: $40
🎟️ Regular day rate: $35
🎟️ Regular day rate + dinner: $75

🕗 Registration: 8:30am
🕔 Solemn High Mass: 5:30pm
🕕 Dinner: 6:45pm

Mark your calendars! Once available, tickets will go on sale our website! We hope to see you there!

#Catholic #StThomasAquinas #Thomistic #Art #Beauty #Music #ThomisticArtistsGuild #CatholicEvents #CatholicMusic #ThomasAquinasCollege

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“Art is imitation, the making of a picture of some feature of the world; art thus images, or re-presents, for our delighted contemplation, one or more formal aspects of its source or origin.”
- Daniel McInerny, from Beauty & Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts

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Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception!

“And I will put enmity
    between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
    and you will strike his heel.”
- Genesis 3:15

15th c. Dutch painting attributed to Geertgen tot Sint Jans