art by James Langley
MEETING WITH ARTISTS
ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
Sistine Chapel
Saturday, 21 November 2009l
Here are some of my favorite lines from the speech:
“This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time, which unites generations and enables them to be one in admiration. And all this through the work of your hands . . . Remember that you are the custodians of beauty in the world.”
"The experience of beauty does not remove us from reality, on the contrary, it leads to a direct encounter with the daily reality of our lives, liberating it from darkness, transfiguring it, making it radiant and beautiful."
"Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence”
Simone Weil wrote in this regard: “In all that awakens within us the pure and authentic sentiment of beauty, there, truly, is the presence of God. There is a kind of incarnation of God in the world, of which beauty is the sign."
*Hat-tip to Genevieve at http://www.goldenbooklist.blogspot.com/
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