This photo-meditation — linking the Eucharist with our current environmental crisis — is inspired by Mass On The World, an essay by priest-scientist Teilhard de Chardin. Having “neither bread, nor wine, nor altar” during his scientific fieldwork in Asia, he made the whole world his altar and offered up our earthly joys and sorrows as his bread and wine.
In this meditation Teilhard’s earthy Eucharistic vision is shared by contemporary visionaries who call us to a deeper awareness of Earth as a Divine gift we’re called to cherish and celebrate.
The spitiual guides quoted in this guided meditation:
- Teilhard de Chardin, SJ — Priest, scientist and mystic
- Ronald Rolheiser, OMI — President of OMI School of Theology
- Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ — Professor of Theology, Fordham University
- Denis Edwards, MA — Professor of Theology, Flinders University, Australia
- Ilia Delio, OSF — Professor of Spirituality, Washington Theological Union
- David Toolan, SJ — former Editor of America Magazine
- Mary Southard, CSJ — artist, painter, sculptor and Earth contemplative
- Maureen Wild, SC — speaker, writer on the new cosmology and deep ecology
- Diane Pendola — editor of Earthliness and an eco-contemplative
- Beatrice Bruteau — author and contemplative