The Pope at Castel Gandolfo: "True beauty is in the signs of love"

"Our true beauty does not consist in hiding the signs of passing time, but in showing the signs of love that has no end imprinted even in our flesh." The Pope said this in the homily of the mass in Castel Gandolfo for the feast of the Assumption. Leo oneself; how one can observe others, perhaps externally attractive, but hard and cold inside". For the Pontiff, thus, "it is easy to understand where true beauty lies and where instead there is still a need for conversion, forgiveness and healing".

Leone added: "If we truly want to discover and cultivate the divine beauty in which we are surrounded and for which we are made, and spread it around us, we must learn to read it in the tender face of a child as in the wrinkles of an elderly person, in the liveliness of a young person as in the composure of an adult, in the ornaments of the party as in the clothes and tools of work. We must listen to the unique love stories that each of these realities tells us, recognizing in them small glimpses of heaven. It is love - he concluded the Pope - the most beautiful ornament of man: the love that transfigures, transforms, ennobles, lifts us up; that makes us light, free, close to God, even through the ups and downs of life".