A few stray blossoms remain on tattered plants in our gardens. We notice their fragility and passing beauty. This morning the words of the author of the Book of Wisdom in the First Reading at Mass reminded us to leap ahead from beauty to Beauty:
...how far more excellent is the Lord than these;
for the original source of beauty fashioned them.
For from the greatness and the beauty of created things
their original author, by analogy, is seen.
As one poet remarked when regarding the beauty of a wildflower, "I knew the beauty of Our Lord by it."
for the original source of beauty fashioned them.
For from the greatness and the beauty of created things
their original author, by analogy, is seen.
As one poet remarked when regarding the beauty of a wildflower, "I knew the beauty of Our Lord by it."
