Prayer for the Grace to Age Well
“When the
signs of age begin to mark my body
(and still
more when they touch my mind);
when the
illness that is to diminish me or carry me off
strikes
from without or is born within me;
when the
painful moment comes to which I suddenly awaken
to the fact
that I am growing ill or growing old;
and above
all at the last moment
when I feel
I am losing hold of myself
and am
absolutely passive within the hands
of the
great unknown forces that have formed me;
in all
these dark moments, O God,
grant that
I may understand that it is you
(provided
only my faith is strong enough)
who are
painfully parting the fibers of my being
in order to
penetrate to the very marrow
of my
substance and bear me away within yourself.”
Teilhard
de Chardin, The Divine MIlieu
Hymn to the Universe
“The
day will come when, after harnessing the ether, the winds, the tides, and
gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the
history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
Teilhard
de Chardin
Hymn to Matter
“Blessed
be you, harsh matter, barren soil, stubborn rock: you who yield only to
violence, you would force us to work if we would eat. . . . . Blessed be you, mortal matter! Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of
us, we should remain ignorant of ourselves and of God.”
Teilhard
de Chardin
Mass on the World
“Since
once again, Lord,…I have neither bread nor wine nor altar I will raise myself
beyond these symbols, up to the pure majesty of the real itself; I, your
priest, will make the whole earth my altar and on it will offer you all the
labors and suffering of the world.”
Teilhard
de Chardin
On the Human Phenomenon
“If
there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary
level – indeed in the molecule itself – it would be physically impossible for
love to appear higher up.”
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