It seems our world has become sullied - divided by harsh rhetoric. To what or whom can we turn?
“Beauty is a gift of the Spirit that nourishes and
heals our souls, for ultimately, Beauty is but another name for God.” Sr. Melannie Svoboda, SND
“The soul craves beauty.” Thomas Moore, The Care of the Soul
Beauty is all around.
We need only to open our eyes, ears and heart to see, hear and
experience that “Each day in our world Beauty is born anew,
it rises transformed through the storms of history.” Pope
Francis
Because God loves us and God created beauty, “Beauty
is nothing other than love, and love is life.” St.
Augustine
How can we be beautiful and show that love is our
life? What can we do to “Be creative in
order to achieve peace.” Pope Francis
We must simply all do our part because “Beauty will
save the world.” Fyodor Dostoevsky, The
Idiot
Jesus is BEAUTY, and said to our foundress Bl. Celeste: “Enter into my Heart and admire the beauty of these images which I created in my own likeness, and be no longer surprised that I should have come down from Heaven and died for them on the Cross: my own Love did all this.”
And Bl. Celeste, who set her heart on higher realms,
responded: “Nothing, neither the beauty of all the created things in
this world, nor the immensity of the sea, nor all the ornaments of the heavens;
nor the wealth of the rich, or the kings or lords of the earth, nor the honors
of the great, can ever satisfy a heart capable of possessing Your Infinite
Good.”
In God’s eyes our images are beautiful. Therefore, in loving
God in return, we are capable of being beautiful to one another. Let it be so.
