Tag Archives: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Sunday Reflection, Fifth Sunday of Lent (April 6, 2014): Transformation Through A God Who Shares Our Suffering

“Jesus wept.” — John 11:35 “God has entered so thoroughly into our pain, into our loss, into our fear, that he weeps for us. We don’t have a God that stands aloof from the human condition.” — Fr. Robert Barron … Continue reading

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Sturgill Simpson, Teilhard de Chardin and the Omega Point

    I am not a huge country music fan but I found an article in yesterday’s Washington Post on Sturgill Simpson.  I had never heard of any of Mr. Simpson’s music but I was intrigued by his interview in … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (March 31, 2014): Everything That Rises Must Converge (Part I)

[This Quote of the Week is inspired by the fact that I am rereading Flannery O’Connor] “It is true that at the outset it presupposes a certain fundamental concept of the place of Man in Nature. But as it rises … Continue reading

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Sunday Reflection, Fourth Sunday of Lent (March 30, 2014): Trust in the Slow Work of God

“Live as children of light, for light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth.” — Eph 5:8-9 This weekend is the Fourth Sunday in Advent. The readings can be found here.  The themes focus on the metaphor of … 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 17, 2014): Mysticism and Spirit

[I]t is clear that since all time Christianity has, by virtue of its structure, fallen into equilibrium in the direction of the spirit of unification and synthesis: God finally becoming all in all within an atmosphere of pure charity (‘sola … Continue reading

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Sunday Reflection, Second Sunday of Lent (March 16, 2014): Transfigured in Christ

This weekend is the Second Sunday of Lent.  The readings can be found here.  The readings focus on the Transfiguration.  It was one of those rare instances during Jesus’ lifetime when His divinity was clearly apparent to his closest disciples. … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (March 10, 2014): Healing Power of Christ

Just as in living bodies a cell, at first similar to the other cells, can gradually come to be preponderant in the organism, so the particular humanity of Christ was able (at least at the Resurrection) to take on, to … Continue reading

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Sunday Reflection, First Sunday of Lent (March 9, 2014): O Felix Culpa

“Just as in living bodies a cell, at first similar to the other cells, can gradually come to be preponderant in the organism, so the particular humanity of Christ was able (at least at the Resurrection) to take on, to … 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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