2020

Teilhard de Chardin {New Year’s Day 1932, in China}:

My dear friends, we are together this morning to begin, in front of God, the new year. God, for each of us, certainly does not have the same precise image. But since we are all human, we cannot escape, not one of us, the sentiment and the idea that, above and beyond us, a supreme energy exists, one that we must well recognize that, being superior to us, it must possess some superior form of our intelligence and our will. It is in front of this powerful Presence that we should recollect ourselves a moment at the start of this year. Of this universal Presence, which envelops us all, we first request to unite us, as in a common living center, with those whom we love and who are also starting, although far away from us, this 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. 

Comments

[Jack Shifflett]

Thanks, Ann. May your New Year be bright with promise and may your heart be filled with hope...

[Ann Markle]

Beautiful. Thank you. Perfect prayer for the New Year.