VI. Truth, Beauty, and Sacred Art

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The practice of goodness is accompanied by spontaneous spiritual joy and moral
beauty. Likewise, truth carries with it the 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 truth can also find other complementary forms of
human expression, above all when it is a matter of evoking what is beyond
words: the depths of the human heart, the exaltations of the soul, the mystery
of God. Even before revealing himself to man in words of truth, God reveals
himself to him through the universal language of creation, the work of his
Word, of his wisdom: the order and harmony of the cosmos – 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.”²⁸⁹

From The Catechism of the Catholic Church – rosary.team

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