The Beauty of Virtue

About this sermon

St. Thomas Aquinas explains the notion of beauty in a number of places in his works… teaching: “Beauty includes three conditions, (i) integrity or perfection, since those things which are impaired are by that very fact ugly; (ii) due proportion or harmony; and lastly, (iii) brightness or clarity, whence things are called beautiful which have a bright color” (I,39,8). The more these three things are present, the more beautiful a thing is. Virtue is something beautiful because it requires all of these to be in place before it can be truly virtuous. For more please visit http://reginaprophetarum.org/ & remember to say 3 Hail Marys for the priest