Nadine Fuchs

This article constitutes a personal meditation in response to a text by Olivier Clément published in the journal *Contacts* (no. 53), devoted to a praise of beauty. The author draws on a lived experience of cultural poverty and religious aridity to question the capacity of contemporary Christianity to respond to the need for beauty, joy, and celebration expressed by young people. The approach is reflective and existential, blending personal testimony with ecclesiological analysis. The central idea is that the Church must renew itself in depth — through its anthropology, its theology, and its liturgy — in order to remain relevant in the face of modern atheism and paganism. The theological contribution lies in the valorization of an Orthodox vision of the human person as co-creator with God, called not to passive submission but to a relationship of living friendship, rooted in paschal hope.