The Incarnation is a making new, a restoration, of all the universe’s forces and powers; Christ is the Instrument, the Center, the End, of the whole of animate and material creation; through Him, everything is created, sanctified and vivified. This is the constant and general teaching of St. John and St. Paul (that most “cosmic” of sacred writers), and it has passed into the most solemn formulas of the Liturgy: and yet we repeat it, and generations to come will go on repeating it, without ever being able to grasp or appreciate its profound and mysterious significance, bound up as it is with understanding of the universe.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The Future of Man (Kindle Locations 4692-4696).
This is such a powerful expression of the composition of the Liturgy. I have often expressed that I fear that people don’t “get” the Liturgy. If we listened with our hearts, we would be filled with wonder and awe at the magnificence and beneficence of our God. Thank you for this quote.
All encompassing and so powerfully explicit.