Truth, Beauty and Sacred Art
The practice of goodness is accomplished by spontaneous spiritual joy and splendor of spiritual beauty. Truth is beautiful in itself.
Truth in words, the rational expression of the knowledge of created and uncreated reality is necessary to man who is endowed with intellect. But that truth can find other means of expression. Above all when it is a matter of evoking what is beyond words, the depths of the heart, the exaltation of the soul, the mystery of God.
Even before revealing himself to man in words of truth, god revealed himself to man in the universal languages of creation, the work of his word, of his wisdom.
The order and harmony of the universe which both the child and the scientist discover.
From the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their creator. “
For the author of beauty created them”-wisdom
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Created in the “image of god” man also expresses the truth of his relationship with God the creator, by the beauty of his created works.
