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The Perfect Human Form | WOW14
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26:38Now Playing"I'm reminded of the day when I wandered for many hours around the Baths of Diocletian in Rome. I encountered the masterpieces of ancient Greek sculpture there. That was a very laborious day. I took great pains and noticed with what immense effort all those people, those great masters of sculpture, had sought to demonstrate perfect, absolute beauty in the human body, and in doing so they had been seeking the Incarnation.
After this walk of many hours it took such a great effort to spend time with that ancient pagan art — I understood the Gospel anew. And I understood it better. I understood that what had been the subject of the search for absolute, impeccably perfect beauty in the human body — that was the Beauty which did indeed become incarnate in the Gospel: God who became Man; God who revealed himself, because he appeared in the flesh. Together with his presence, he brought with him an entire special world of Beauty. Beauty that is peculiar to himself; Beauty which is identical with him, just as he is identical with Beauty."
- Bishop Karol Wojtyła
Artwork: Discobolus of Myron
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