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Consenting to the Communion – A Prayer from Teilhard (Main Forum)

by PeterR @, Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 19:36 (1095 days ago) @ Roch

From "Hymn of the Universe" - Teilhard de Chardin

"When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize I am a sick person or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I am feeling that I am losing hold of myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is YOU (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself."

I am about there now - a beautiful prayer for the ageing.

Peter

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