The Heart of Christ at the heart of matter…the Golden Glow…gleaming at the heart of matter.
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Under the symbol of the Sacred Heart the divine assumed for me, the form of fire… through its power to become universal this fire proved able to invade and impregnate with love the whole atmosphere of the world in which I lived…. It is in the Sacred Heart that the conjunction of the divine and the cosmic has taken place…. There lies the power that from the beginning has attracted and conquered me…. All the later development of my interior life has been nothing other than the evolution of that seed.
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
This week I was at a Christian conference where I experienced the grace and power of God in a beautiful and powerful way. A Catholic priest prayed for me and spoke I believe prophetically over me when he asked for God's sacred heart to fill my heart. I have been studying Chardin's writings for the past few months and this all connected together in a mysterious way for me. What God is doing in me is summed up nicely by Ilia Delio who says,The Sacred Heart: instinctively and mysteriously for me, since my infancy, the synthesis of love and matter, of person and energy. From this there has gradually evolved in me the perception of Omega—the universal cohesion in unity.
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Retreat Notes, 1939-43
"A dynamic universe provokes the idea and the understanding of a dynamic God…. This is not a stay-at-home God. This is a God who is deeply immersed in a love affair with the beloved, the creation which flows out of his divine heart. To say that God is love is to mean that God is eternally and dynamically in love."
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