Course: Theology of the Body for Musicians
Brian Butler – Executive Director and Co-Founder of Lousianna's ECHO Community – explores Pope Saint John Paul II’s series of 129 lectures on the human body, from the lens of our calling as Catholic musicians. “The body, and it alone, is capable of making visible what is invisible, the spiritual and divine. It was created to transfer into the visible reality of the world, the invisible mystery hidden in God from time immemorial, and thus to be a sign of it.” (Pope John Paul II, February 20, 1980). The course is in four parts, with new episodes premiering November 2024.
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Making a Gift of Ourselves
Presenter Brian Butler opens up the themes of Pope Saint John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, as applied to our lives as Catholic musicians. Beginning with Mary’s Magnificat, we understand how to make a gift of ourselves –– a person created in body and soul –– to make the Lord visible.
Presenter Brian Butler opens up the themes of Pope Saint John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, as applied to our lives as Catholic musicians. Beginning with Mary’s Magnificat, we understand how to make a gift of ourselves –– a person created in body and soul –– to make the Lord visible.
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The Language of the Body
In this next episode, Brian Butler shares about our embodied experience revealed in and through the sacramentality of the body.
In this next episode, Brian Butler shares about our embodied experience revealed in and through the sacramentality of the body.
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The Responsibility of an Artist
In this third episode, Brian Butler invites us to imagine the gift of music in heaven, cultivated here on earth in our sincere gift of ourselves and in coorperation with God’s grace.
In this third episode, Brian Butler invites us to imagine the gift of music in heaven, cultivated here on earth in our sincere gift of ourselves and in coorperation with God’s grace.
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Song of Songs
In this final episode of the course, Brian Butler begins again with the examination of concious as musicians, and moves us into the inspiration of the song of the saints. Pope Saint John Paul II examined the Song of Songs as a place of fruitfulness between the bridegroom and the bride: how does this affect our understanding of music?
In this final episode of the course, Brian Butler begins again with the examination of concious as musicians, and moves us into the inspiration of the song of the saints. Pope Saint John Paul II examined the Song of Songs as a place of fruitfulness between the bridegroom and the bride: how does this affect our understanding of music?
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Brian Butler is an author and presenter in YOU: Life, Love, and The Theology of the Body and Envision: Theology of the Body for Middle School, as well as a presenter in the Chosen Confirmation program. He is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Echo Community, a non-profit organization dedicated to chastity and vocation formation for teens and young adults.
Brian holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of New Orleans and a master’s degree in theology from Notre Dame Seminary School of Theology.
Brian and his wife, Lisa, are the parents of four children.
