"Through all things,
by day and by night, in clear light or in darkness,
let us live like the
Magdelen, always under the eyes
of Unchangeable Beauty... - Bl
Elizabeth of the Trinity
"In the
Eucharist there is a beauty, a hidden loveliness,
beyond the beauty of all art. The Lamb of God comes to the altar of His Bride
in the glory of the Father and the Holy Spirit, invisibly escorted by the
angels. Only humble accidents veil the radiance of His flesh.
Christ is
beauty, and He becomes present to make us
beautiful. ...Christ in all His
matchless beauty is substantially present in the Eucharist, and His Church
strives to worship that beauty with all the accidental beauty of her sacred art
- by vestments and vessels, by chant and icons, by the consecrated space of her
temples. The bride knows that no human art can be worthy of her Spouse, who is
the eternal Son and Splendour of the Father. ... the hidden beauty is always
greater than the visible forms."
John Saward
From The Beauty of
Holiness and the Holiness of Beauty
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