Can we know what real beauty and wellbeing? Is there a description of these attributes, or are they just what you see, that they? Let us concentrate on what God has given to women and to the society to be told. Where the truth lies in the success of women for women, with the exception of the nature of women, and in dependence on the admiration of others to their self-confidence, or the simple pleasure of physical objects? Or are they, in finding the truth, the dignity of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, which is involved and the divine truth, beauty, goodness and the whole creation, which is called to reflect and share?
The question of truth, beauty and goodness, that people for centuries. The pagan philosophers tried to discover what is true, good "and" Beautiful. For the Christians, but there can be no other response than that of the Triune God is the true, beautiful and good. By their very nature of God is all three. The rest is only through participation. We know this because God has chosen for us. The Catechism of the Catholic Church # 2500 says: "Even before my people even words of truth, to God (the man) in the universal language of creation." The whole of creation with its Creator, and therefore something of beauty, even in the body. Truth, beauty and goodness, known as the "Transcendental," can not be separated from each other, because it is a unity of the Trinity is. The truth is beautiful in itself. And describes what God has done. "God saw everything he had done, and it was very good" (Gen.1: 31).
The man is the head of the work of the Creator, as Scripture clearly speaks of the creation of man from other creatures. "God created man in his own image ..." (Genesis 1:27). So the man was not only very well, but it was in friendship with his Creator and in harmony with itself and with the creation of it in a state that is crossed by the glory of the new creation in Christ. The inner harmony of the first people, the harmony between the first man and woman (Adam and Eve), and the harmony between the first pair and the whole creation, is "the original of justice." The results of this original harmony justice has been lost by the sin of our first parents. Created in a state of holiness, the man was in full "God" by God in glory. But he has preferred to disobey God and the commandment of God.
So, Adam and Eve, has immediately lost the holiness and harmony in which they lived was destroyed. They were divorced beauty of God himself, but is not the task of mankind, the sin of Adam, because "by the disobedience of one man were all sinners" (Romans 5:12). In the fullness of time, God sent his son had lost. The son, who is beautiful above the sons of men who came to us the beauty.
So, we are starting with the beauty. By Balthasar, once pointed out that if you try, the other to win God, he must in the beauty, because beauty attracts. After the beauty of truth and goodness. Therefore, if a beauty and he must know what beauty is. I make a distinction between two kinds of beauty, even if only one of them is the beauty in the true sense of the definition. It is "attractive", the beauty, often in our culture. This entails the risk that our self-temptations (morally or mentally). We must move away from what we made to the Union itself beauty. This kind of beauty where I come from, but I would like to start with a definition and a good understanding of what "true" is the beauty. This is first and foremost, what we attract into our true fulfillment and happiness. In his book, the beauty of holiness and the holiness of beauty, John Saward, based on the work of Saint Thomas Aquinas defined beauty as the glory of the country or form of the relationship of the parties to an instrument. "With other words, you see the beauty in appearance, it is deeply rooted in the nature or essence of the case.
"So a substance in the hardware (a man), there is beauty, the essence of a thing by its clear appearance." The beauty of the soul can be said to shine by a person in the face. To achieve this, three elements are necessary to ensure the integrity (integrity), because a part (harmony) and clarity (clarity). It is important to note that this definition is the fact that beauty is a reality in itself, but this is not something that we produce a work of art or another thing that attracts us. On the contrary, it radiates the beauty of what we see. It seems because he is the beauty in relation to Jesus, the Christian tradition - Augustine and Hilary Peter Lombard, Albert, Thomas and Bonaventure - that the beauty, in a special way to the second person ... "
Saint-Thomas, the three of beauty to be found in Jesus. Radiance found, because it is the word of the Father, the eternal Word and spoke with the father speaks perfectly and completely by Him. It is the clarity of the spirit of his father. The share can be found in the Son of God, because it is the perfect likeness of the Father. If the picture is perfect, the divine beauty. Jesus is the fullness, as he himself the nature of the father. And yes, the son, the father divides the entire nature of God. So we have a divine person, the Son of God, without cease to be true God, was the right man for us, in the belly of the Virgin. If you look at the Virgin and child, we see proof of the Trinity. Pope John Paul II declared that the image of the Mother and Child "is a solid, but the silence of the virginal motherhood of Mary, and for this reason, the deity of the Son."
It's like one of these witnesses of the Trinity, with Mary, a special place in relation to the true, good and beautiful. The Holy Virgin said to the XV-century poet John Lydgate, the "Mother fairest than ever to live." Many poets and artists have tried their admiration and praise Saturday, so closely connected with the deity. When Dante's Paradise, it's the beauty of the perfect Son of God in Mary, he was born. Thus we see how Mary is for everyone, but especially the women, a kind of beauty, and goodness and truth, because the life of the Trinity. "The whole beauty of the soul and the body, the Son of God in the world, the charm of the beautiful he wanted humanity, is abstract, and the placement of the person his mother is always empty," a woman wrapped the sun, the moon under her feet and on his head a crown of twelve stars "(Apoc. 12:1). If there is beauty here."
For the beauty of Mary, you have to donate to him, and his response to these gifts in the closest contact with the beauty, the Scriptures themselves, the word of God is revealed, so that was the angel Gabriel from God in a city in Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin bride to a man named Joseph ... and the name of the Virgin Mary was. And he (the angel) came to her and said: "Rejoice, full of grace, the Lord is with you! ... Do not be afraid Mary, for thou hast found grace with God. And see, go to your breasts development and the birth of a son, and you say Jesus. It will be great and called Son of the Most High ... And Mary said: "How is it possible, because I am not the man?" And the angel said to him "The Holy Spirit will have you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, so that the unborn child is a saint, the son of God. ... And Mary said:" Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord that is for me according to Your word. "(Luke 1:26-38).
The Mother of the Redeemer, Marie took the necessary donations and fits into such a role. Marie was known as "full of grace" as if it was his real name. A name expresses the identity of the person. "Full of Grace" is the essence of Mary, his identity and the meaning of his life. Maria full of grace because the Lord is with him. The grace with which she is satisfied, the presence of Who is the source of all grace, and they will like the place where they live and how it is in the process in the world. It is characterized by a unique, free from any stain of sin, because of the merits of her son. He has the harmony that Adam lost. It has the first two properties because of the beauty (harmony) and integrity (integrity), because the merits of her Son, and the fullness of grace, she has received, its nature is complete - unwounded and without stain of sin.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "Mary is always holy Virgin, Mother of God, is the masterpiece of the mission of the Son and the Holy Spirit in the fullness of time ... In the" miracle of God, the Spirit is fulfilled in Christ and the church began to manifest themselves. "With Mary, the Holy Spirit begins the people," the objects in the merciful love of God in communion with Christ. "
Grace is described as "God's better beauty, the beauty of the soul." And Mary, full of grace, the beauty that radiates to the spiritual beauty. Grace (sanctifying grace) gives us the divine life, our soul, is the resemblance to Christ. Marie in her fullness of grace is an expression of the beauty of his son. They have the "radiation" is the third of the quality of beauty. The Great St. Bernard of Clairvaux, that "the contemplation of the face of the mother is the best way to focus on the face of the glorious son." Saward supports this idea, with emphasis on the fact that our Lord is the Holy Spirit without seed, so there is only one person you see in his humanity, and the virgin and mother.
Like the beauty of Mary of the women of today an image of true beauty, and thus the truth and the good too? Mary, the Theotokos - the Mother of God, the mother of the infinite beauty, which itself is beautiful, the women to discuss what is right and good. It shows the falsehood of the "seductive beauty, as described above, we love what we in our (morally and spiritually) with the guidance of the" real "beauty competition contrast. The essence of the beauty of Mary, also in St -. Thomas for beauty, wealth, because of the share, and shine, we focus on business at the request of the beauty of women. d women of today are the company than what is good and beautiful is what magic and seduction. The Beauty of God, the goodness of their exchanged for one "spirit and poor leadership" (Romans 1:28), which leads to mental and physical resolution often. The "truth" that are learned, it is believe that man (and therefore the woman) and not as a person but as a thing as an object of trade, in the service of selfish interests and are just ... this product, such as fruit, the bitter contempt for the men and women, slavery, oppression of the weak, pornography, prostitution ... "
The beauty is often mentioned as a simple physical quality. There are not "made", because only one aspect of the whole will be considered. Society is focused on physics, with the exception of the intellectual. This type of mentality, we see that the women honored for their work outside the home, for their work in the family. What's "in" so attractive is a woman who is able to "good" from a successful career, the promise of happiness and equality with men. "To achieve this goal, the women who often or to abandon their femininity, or only an imitation of the male role. They are in one direction, the negotiations on the quality of the" integrity ", which is necessary for the true beauty of the application only by the company of beautiful. The "seductive beauty", which promises the "good" basis for a hedonism, which distorts and degrades human sexuality and the true dignity of the human person. This not only leads to a lack of respect for what femininity is, because the truth about their personal dignity, as it was created by God and later is unknown, but it also prevents women from achieving the fullness of grace "for the they were created. This leads to the destruction of spiritual women, because they are not a life. And they do not live for God.
Marie, lived a life full of grace, but the model of women's over. God himself "Manifesto of the dignity of women in the highest form possible, by the flesh of the Virgin Mary, the honor of the Church as the Mother of God". The highest level of human nature in the male sex, as Jesus, the Son of God became man and men. The heights of the people has taken place, the more women, the Virgin Mary. His divine mother gives him a high degree of dignity. It's "blessed of women." Therefore, all measures of femininity and the blessing of his charisma. "If the Virgin Mary is honored modest for the love of his son, women in the honor ... it is the true beauty of femininity."
In the light of what we have Marie, we know that "full of grace" shows his essence, his identity. It is also the key to the reflection of the real, proper, and the beautiful. It is the key to discovering the truth, the women of their dignity, and to obtain the divine life that is offered by a life of grace. It is a life, in their goodness and true beauty, its participation in the beauty of the Creator.
Because Mary is "full of grace", the wealth that was lost by Adam. Because it is "the sun", in which the brightness of life connected to God. Such seems to be the union of a person on the goodness of God. "The practice of spontaneous kindness, the joy, spiritual and moral beauty" (CCC 2500). These measures virtues' are supported by education, by the action and the endurance time and time again the repeated efforts are purified and the level of divine grace "(CCC1810). Grace covers all aspects of a person's life. The is a gift from God to us by God. We are also God, the more we have him the truth, beauty and goodness.
Marie has for us, just as life after. It is a guide to a life of fidelity to grace. Due to the limitation of space, I will briefly examine three virtues of Marie and invites us to imitate. They are loyalty, obedience and love. The Church Ave Maria as a good example of faith and charity "(Lumen Gentium 53). We will see if their faith to trust God in the proclamation, faith and belief that the message of the angels that her son would be the son of the Most High, be sure that with God nothing is impossible "(Lk. 1:30). The path of faith with their response to what in his life, an association with Jesus. He fled to Egypt, Joseph is you "(Mt 2:13-15), they're in the same way (Matthew 2:19-23), and it is precisely his collaboration with his son on the cross (see LG 58 Jn.19: 25 -- 27), all in the faith and trust in the wisdom of God's divine plan. She believes that his son, but was crucified and buried, even without the death. He is expected to be in prayer (Acts 1:14). We are women of faith to believe what God has his plan for us and for our hello.
Marie deep faith that gives them loving obedience. His obedience is not servile. It was rather an obedience, of humility. They knew that the wisdom and the size of God and thus try to live in harmony with her. God's love in response to his confidence in the midwife plan. Again, the Annunciation, she responds in obedience to the angel: "What happens everything for me, as you say" (Luke 1:36). They obediently followed the instructions that the angel to Joseph, the trust in God. Marie remained in line with its role as a mother, even the cross, where it has the full support of its intelligence and obedience to the will of the government, resources are inscrutable. While we try to imitate the obedience of Mary, we find that we are free from the slavery of sin. Obedience makes us good, because it gives us the grace of God in your life and love in us.