‘Lord, lock me up in the deepest depths of your heart; and then, holding me there, burn me, purify me, set me on fire, sublimate me, till I become utterly what you would have me be, though the utter annihilation of my ego.’5
𝑇𝑢 𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑚, 𝐷𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑖, 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑢𝑠 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑢𝑖. 𝐴𝑡𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑖𝑏𝑖 𝑚𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑜𝑞𝑢𝑒, 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑎, 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒, 𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑎𝑐, 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑎, 𝑎𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑢𝑚 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑢𝑖 𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑚 𝑎𝑡𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑚, 𝑎𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑚 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑚.6
‘Lord.’ Yes, at last, though the twofold mystery of this universal consecration and communion I have found one to whom I can wholeheartedly give this name. As long as I could see — or dared see — in you, Lord Jesus, only the man who lived two thousand years ago, the sublime moral teacher, the Friend, the Brother, my love remained timid and constrained. Friends, brothers, wise men: have we not many of
these around us, great souls, chosen souls, and much closer to us? And then can man ever give himself utterly to a nature which is purely human? Always from the very first it was the world, greater than all the elements which make up the world, that I was in love with; and never before was there anyone before whom I could in honesty bow down. And so for a long time, even though I believed, I strayed, not knowing what it was I loved. But now, Master, today, when though the manifestation of those
superhuman powers with which your resurrection endowed you you shine forth from within all the forces of the earth and so become visible to me, now I recognize you as my Sovereign, and with delight I surrender myself to you.-The Mass On The World – Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, S.J
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., was professor of geology at the Catholic Institute in Paris, director of the National Geologic Survey of China, and director of the National Research Center of France. He died in New York City in 1955.His book Hymn of the Universe was published in 1961 by Harper & Row. Chapter One of the book was entitled The Mass on the World.
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