FOR TEILHARD AND THOMAS BERRY (and for All Sages Who Help Us to See)

Sacramental Seer

Living Chalice--

Purified stardust, tempered strength
Luminous beauty, divine icon.

The Spirit conceives you.
Earth's womb nourishes you.
Loving hearts fashion you.
The Heart of hearts communes with you

Consecrated crucible for the One and the Many,
Vessel of Divine Magnetism,
Cosmic Cup of Love, Truth and Goodness,
Blessing for a Sacred Cosmos </

Sacramental Seer!

Living Host--
Humanizing nourishment, transforming energy
Refined wheat, activating leaven.

You propagate spirit,
You co-create with heaven and earth,
You hallow hearts.
You commune with the Heart of hearts.

Consecrated Mandala for the One and the Many
Bread of "holy communion,"
Fiery-Food of Wisdom, Universality and Inspiration,
Blessing for a Sacred Cosmos,

Sacramental Seer!

Deep Indebtedness of this Blog

"Earth Spirituality" is deeply indebted to World Scriptures, Thomas Berry, Pierre Teilhard, Dorothy Day and for all Sage-Friends, poor and rich, young and old of every race, gender and belief, who help us to see and to love. This would not be possible without Loving Mystery, various Communities and the developing Earth Community itself.

Nov. 2: Remembering Our Beloved Dead & All Who Have Passed On to New Life

Today, Nov. 2 is a special day for remembering our beloved dead and all who have passed on to new life on our Great Journey. We pray for saints and sinners, everyday heroines and heroes, family members and those who have no one to pray for them. The following glimpse of an interview related to life and death will find a home in the hearts of many of us. (Tom Berry, my incomparable friend-mentor-priest was interviewed by Mary Judith Ress for the eco-feminist magazine Con-spirando, in 1994).

Responding to where he would be in 50 years, Tom indicates that he will be where he has always been. Continuing, he explains:

"Each of us is as old as the universe and experiences our greater self in the larger story of the universe. So we are as old as the universe and as big as the universe. That is our great self. We survive in our great self. Our particular manifestation is distinct from our universal presence to the total process. We exist externally in our participation in the universe's existence."

Regarding immortality, Tom notes:

"The universe itself is the comprehensive mode of existence--everything exists in relationship to the universe. Everything participates in everything that happens in the universe. Therefore we never cease to be a participant in the universe. Everything we do will have consequences that will go on forever. There is a way in which we exist individually as a dimension of the totality of things and as an influence on everything that to some extent governs what came before us and everything that will come after."

Tom's inclusive vision gives us much food for thought. For one thing it helps us to be grateful for our loved ones, ourselves and everyone else. We are all historically irreplaceable on the Great Journey as we continue to stretch, to self-transcend and to develop on our Great Journey toward community and self-fulfillment lured on by Loving Mystery. Our beloved dead and ourselves are still on this Great Journey together.

Our Journey

To be is to be on a journey. We are familiar with the journeys to adulthood, to play, to school, to work, to worship, to weddings, to funerals, to vacation, to home. To be born is not to remain still, but to journey toward self-transcendence and union for the good of the Whole. To be born is to be an evolving member of an evolving Earth Community. We are interwoven with the unfolding journey-story of a sacred journey, of a sacred cosmogenesis. We are women, men and children of the 21st century part of a cosmic process. We are not finished; we are all becoming.

Who Are We?

Who are we in the 21st century? What is our historical challenge? How will we decide? We are earth community members. We are the consciousness of the earth. We are daughters and sons of Mother Earth who is sick.