Fr Stephen is always worth reading, but is particularly on form this week:

Beauty is not mere aesthetics. It encompasses an aspect of truth that is enfleshed and breathes. Our faith is not a mass of syllogisms, no matter how well expressed. Like even the most primitive human beings, believers have reached out to blank walls to fill them with the images of the heart. It reaches out to the souls of broken men and women to bind them up. Beauty is the sound and image of love breaking on the shores all across the planet calling us to our true home.