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Led by the Star of Beauty to the Love of Beauty Unseen

The epiphany of God’s glory in the Church's heaven-touching liturgy

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Jan 04, 2024
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In Plato’s famous dialogue on love, the Symposium, Socrates relates the “tale” he learned from his teacher Diotima of Mantineia. She tells him that love is caused by the beautiful, and that the ultimate goal of our love is absolute Beauty itself:

He who has been instructed thus far in …

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