10. Property, Democracy, and Art: How Owning Land Positively Affects The World

Written By Jon Marc & Teresa Grodi

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What is the value in owning land? How does democracy and ownership artistically add to the beauty of our world? In this episode Brandon Vogt joins us to discuss the Catholic worldview of personal property and the sacramental nature of our homes. We share insights from GK Chesterton and Josef Pieper, discussing how man's home is his masterpiece, and why modern society should return to the home as the focal point for building meaningful community.

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Brandon Vogt

Contact Brandon: brandonvogt.com 

The Burrowshire Podcast: burrowshirepodcast.com

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“Man’s pleasure, therefore, is to possess conditions, but also to be partly possessed by them; to be half-controlled by the flute he plays or by the field he digs. The excitement is to get the utmost out of given conditions; the conditions will stretch, but not indefinitely. A man can write an immortal sonnet on an old envelope, or hack a hero out of a lump of rock. But hacking a sonnet out of a rock would be a laborious business, and making a hero out of an envelope is almost out of the sphere of practical politics. This fruitful strife with limitations, when it concerns some airy entertainment of an educated class, goes by the name of Art. But the mass of men have neither time nor aptitude for the invention of invisible or abstract beauty. For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions—the idea of property. The average man cannot cut clay into the shape of a man; but he can cut earth into the shape of a garden; and though he arranges it with red geraniums and blue potatoes in alternate straight lines, he is still an artist; because he has chosen. The average man cannot paint the sunset whose colors be admires; but he can paint his own house with what color he chooses, and though he paints it pea green with pink spots, he is still an artist; because that is his choice. Property is merely the art of the democracy. It means that every man should have something that he can shape in his own image, as he is shaped in the image of heaven. But because he is not God, but only a graven image of God, his self-expression must deal with limits; properly with limits that are strict and even small.” (GK Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World? To learn more about GK Chesterton, visit www.chesterton.org.)



Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII, sections 5 - 11: (full text) http://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html

“A Man’s Place Is in the Home” by John Jalsevac in Gilbert: (full text) https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin-wax/mans-place-home

One Beautiful Dream: The Rollicking Tale of Personal Passions, Family Chaos, and Saying Yes to Them Both by Jennifer Fulwiler: (https://jenniferfulwiler.com/one-beautiful-dream)

Family Friendly Farming by Joel Salatin: https://www.amazon.com/Family-Friendly-Farming-Multi-Generational-Home-Based/dp/0963810936/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=joel+salatin+family+friendly+farming&qid=1601681571&sr=8-1 

REGENERATIVE FARMING



Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson: https://www.amazon.com/Lark-Rise-Candleford-Flora-Thompson/dp/1567923631/ref=pd_lpo_74_t_1/147-5200914-0384305?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1567923631&pd_rd_r=27276692-314b-4275-84b7-49157aa26a0f&pd_rd_w=XOZJ7&pd_rd_wg=BPLIU&pf_rd_p=7b36d496-f366-4631-94d3-61b87b52511b&pf_rd_r=B2B78EHN23ZTZ31SJA5Z&psc=1&refRID=B2B78EHN23ZTZ31SJA5Z

Word on Fire: https://www.wordonfire.org

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Jon Marc & Teresa Grodi

Teresa is a member of the Body of Christ, a wife, and a mother of five. She was born, raised, and resides in the Diocese of Toledo, OH. Teresa received her B.A. and M.A. in History at Bowling Green State University, where she met her husband JonMarc. She has been involved in ministry in many capacities and currently organizes pilgrimages for Catholic Faith Journeys. Teresa and JonMarc love to take walks and to discuss faith, philosophy, culture, food, the Domestic Church, the Feminine Genius, and the C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy, among other things.

JonMarc is the Chief Operating Officer of the Coming Home Network International and has been interviewed on EWTN programs such as Life on the Rock and The Journey Home, as well as various radio programs. A graduate student of philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville, JonMarc resides in Perrysburg, OH, with his wife and five young children.  Some of his favorite topics for discussion & writing are the nature of religious faith, aesthetics, Catholic Social Teaching, the writings of G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien, and various intersections of philosophy and theology in family life. You can connect with JonMarc via the Coming Home Network, on social media, or where he occasionally writes at www.RestatementOfTheObvious.com.

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