Teilhard De Chardin - A BOOK OF HOURS (Orbis)

Sisters Kathleen Noone Deignan CND, PhD a teaching theologian and Libby (Elizabeth) Osgood, CND, PEng, an aerospace engineer. Have written this Book of Hours drawing from Teilhard de Chardin, one of the most influential spiritual thinkers of our time.

The book is arranged from a cosmic perspective under evolutionary themes. Each day is subdivided into Dawn, Day, Dusk and Dark. If you have some familiarity with the Divine Office / Breviary, the divisions will seem familiar to you. The evolutionary content is very different. A few examples follow in random order.

Friday Dawn

Invocation

Lord, with every instinct of my being

And through all the changing fortunes of my life –

God is the heart of everything

 Monday Day

Invocation

Lord, make of each of us a purifying leaven

Through the activity of the Child-God!

Wednesday Dusk

Evening Prayer

 Poet, philosopher, mystic –

It is hardly possible to be one

Without being the others.

In the great stream of past humankind,

Poets, philosophers, and mystics-

The long process of those who have been initiated

Into the vision and cult of the Whole-

Have left behind them a central wake…

 Sunday Dark

 Night Hymn

 I would like to speak

What I hear murmuring in me

Like a voice or a song which are not of me,

But of the World in me.

I would like to express the thoughts of someone

Who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings

Of little countries, little coteries, little sects,

Rises above all these categories

And finds themselves a child and citizen of the Earth.

There is first of all the deep joy,

Which we owe to our new perspectives on Life,…

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