"Through all things, by day and by night,
in clear light or in darkness,
let us live like the Magdalen, always under
the eyes of Unchangeable Beauty...
St 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
O Beauty, ever ancient, ever new, we love You!
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