Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ d. 4/10 1955. 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.”
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Ok thank you for sharing this - you have my attention, & one of these will be added to my queue. Have a blessed day.
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Isn’t that the text quoted by Bishop Michael Curry
at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle?
Powerful! Poetic.
A phenomenal theologian (no pun intended)
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When I visited his grave, probably 20 years ago, all of the other limestone markers had blackened. Only his had been power washed and gleamed white. St. Andrew:s on Hudson, now the CIA was once an immense Jesuit seminary. But no more.
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He died on Easter Sunday. The most appropriate day for every Christian, the day the Lord rose in silence from the dead.
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Happy Siblings Day to Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, Ursula King, who inserts this paragraph into her book, Spirit of Fire; and, to you Robert.
We are all made from the same dust.
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