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Feast of Pope Pius X (August 21): Christ, Modernism and Teilhard de Chardin

____________________________________ ____________________________________ A missed opportunity for unity amid the echos of St. Paul: “The goal is to ‘restore all things in Christ’ so that ‘Christ may be all and in all’.  We need ‘to renew all things in Christ‘.  — St. … Continue reading

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Sunday Reflection, 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time (August 18, 2013): Purifying Fire of God’s Love

Today is the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time.  The weekly readings are here and are extremely challenging.  In Luke’s Gospel Jesus proclaims: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! There is a baptism … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (August 12, 2013): In the beginning . . . )

“In the beginning was Power, intelligent, loving, energizing. In the beginning was the Word, supremely capable of mastering and molding whatever might come into being in the world of matter. In the beginning there were not coldness and darkness; there was Fire. This is the truth. … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (July 15, 2013): Collective Consciousness and the Consummated Christ

“Without biological evolution which produced the brain, there would be no sanctified souls; similarly, without the evolution of collective thought which alone can realize on earth the fullness of human consciousness, could there be a consummated Christ?” — Pierre Teilhard … Continue reading

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Life of Teilhard de Chardin: First China Trip and Mass on the World (1923-1924)

Teilhard de Chardin set sail for his first trip to China in Spring 1923.  He landed at Shanghai and proceeded to travel by train to Tientsin, a coastal city some eighty miles from Peking where Emile Licent, S.J., had built … Continue reading

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Sunday Reflection; 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time (June 30, 2013) (Freedom in Christ)

One of the comments I hear from people (both non-believers and believers) on religion in general and Christianity in particular is that it is a stifling set of rules that limit human freedom.  These people view commitment to a belief … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (June 24, 2013): Christ and Science

“Science alone cannot discover Christ, but Christ fulfills the desires which spring up in our hearts from the teachings of science.” — From Science and Christ (quoted in Robert Speaight, the “The Life of Teilhard de Chardin“).

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Sunday Reflection; 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time (June 23, 2013) (One in Christ)

This week we have a rich series of readings.  We read from Psalm 63 with its poetic longing for unity with God: “My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God”.  We have an insightful reading from St. Paul’s … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (June 17, 2013)

“The great cosmic attributes of Christ, those which (particularly in St John and St Paul) accord him a universal and final primacy over creation, these attributes… only assume their full dimension in the setting of an evolution… that is both … Continue reading

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Following Christ in a Consumer Society: The Way Out of the Cultural Cul de Sac

The Gospels for the daily mass the last two days (Mk: 10:17-31) have been particularly hard for those of us living in advanced Western society, especially the U.S.: “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the Kingdom … Continue reading

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