Tag Archives: Cosmic Christ

Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (June 16, 2014): Charity and Progress

  “Christian detachment subsists wholly in this wider attitude of mind: but instead of “leaving behind” it leads on; instead of cutting off, it raises. It is no longer a breakaway but a way through; no longer a withdrawal but … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (June 2, 1014): The Primacy of Christ and His Relationship to the Cosmos

  “In the narrow, partitioned and static Cosmos wherein our fathers believed themselves to dwell, Christ was “lived” and loved by His followers, as He is today, as the Being on whom all things depend and in whom the Universe … Continue reading

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Sunday Reflection, The Ascension (June 1, 2014): The Divine Milieu

This Sunday, parts of the Church celebrate the Feast of the Ascension.  The readings can be found here. Today’s reflection comes from Drew Christiansen, S.J., former editor of America Magazine.  You can find the full reflection here but set forth below … Continue reading

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Reclaiming Teilhard de Chardin

I have remained silent at the most recent public remarks by Cardinal Gerhard Müller and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), mostly because the conflict saddens me and I feel like a child caught in the middle of a dispute between Mom and Dad. … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (March 24, 2014): Unity, Love and Consciousness

The more, as an irresistible effect of technical progress and reflection, mankind becomes conscious of the immensity, and even more the organicity, of the world around it, the more the necessity for a soul makes itself felt: for a soul … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (March 3, 2014): The Incarnation and Renewal

  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. … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (February 24, 2014): The Incarnation and Transformation

“At the source of its developments an operation was called for, transcendent in order, to graft the person of a God onto the human cosmos, under conditions that are mysterious but physically governed . . . Et Verbum caro factum … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (February 3, 2014): Unification of Humanity

From his Essay: “The Psychological Conditions of the Unification of Man” If there is one event that is insidiously and irresistibly engrossing our thoughts, adding every day a further complication, it is undoubtedly that of the unification of man. All around … Continue reading

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Sunday Reflection on Epiphany (January 5, 2014): A Real Truth That May or May Not Have Been Historical

This weekend is the celebration of the Epiphany. The readings can be found here. The journey of the Magi is one of the most beautiful stories in the Bible.  Mysterious foreigners receive a cosmic sign to leave their home and … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (December 9, 2013)

One could say that the whole of life lies in seeing — if not ultimately, at least essentially. To be more is to be more united — and this sums up and is the very conclusion of the work to … Continue reading

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