Flower Power by Father Sam Bond...
The use of flowers in the Church seems selfevident...they add beauty. However, flowers provide more than something to break up the static architectural elements in the Church. Flowers help to focus our attention on the role of Christ in the Mass. They do this according to the following: Through Beauty—Flowers show the aspect of God as the beautiful. In philosophy there are traditionally 3 transcendental properties that make up existing things—Goodness, Truth, and Beauty. Jesus as God is goodness itself, Jesus is Truth, and Jesus is beautiful. When something is good and true it follows that it is also beautiful. As a candle is able to dispel the error of darkness, flowers can dispel the ugliness of the mundane. Please click here to read more.
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