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I am glad you enjoyed the book. Your words inspire me.
Père Telilhard De Chardin is one of my hero’s. He too was a Jesuit. On New Year’s day, for a very long time now, I take out this prayer he prayed in 1932 just before he said the Mass at the Liang-Chow Mission in China. I thought you might enjoy it……..
My dear friends, we have met this morning, in this little church, in the heart of China, in order to come before God at the beginning of this new year. Of course, probably for not one of us here does God mean, or seem, the same thing as for any other of us. And yet, because we are all intelligent beings, not one of us can escape the feeling, or reflection, that above and beyond ourselves there exists some superior force, and that, since it is superior to ourselves, it must possess some superior form of our own intelligence and our own will.
It is in this mighty presence that we should recollect ourselves for a moment at the beginning of this New Year. What we ask of that universal presence which envelops us all, is first to reunite us, as in a shared, living, centre with those whom we love, those who so far away from us here, are themselves beginning the same new year.
Then considering what must be the boundless power of this force, we beseech it to take a favorable hand for us and for our friends and families in the tangled and seemingly uncontrollable web of events that await us in the months ahead. So may success crown our enterprises. So may joy dwell in our hearts and all around us. So may what sorrow cannot be spared us be transfigured into a finer joy, the joy of knowing that we have occupied each his own station in the universe, and that, in that station, we have done as we ought.
Around us and in us, God, through his deep-reaching power, can bring all this about. And it is in order that he may indeed do that, for all of you, I am about to offer Him this Mass, the highest form of Christian prayer.
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