Living Deeply

Christ Will Come Again (Pierre Teilhard De Chardin)

One day, the Gospel tells us, the tension gradually accumulating between humanity and God will touch the limits prescribed by the possibilities of the world.  And then will come the end.  Then the presence of Christ which has been silently accruing in things, will suddenly be revealed---like a flash of light from pole to pole.  Breaking through all the barriers within which the veil of matter and the water-tightness of souls have seemingly kept it confined, it will invade the face of the earth.  And under the finally liberated action of the true affinities of being, the spiritual atoms of the world will be borne along by a force generated by the powers of cohesion proper to the universe itself, and will occupy, whether within Christ or without Christ (but always under the influence of Christ,) the place of happiness or pain designated for them by the living structure of the Pleroma.  “As the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west . . . as the floods came and swept them all away . . . so will be the coming of the Son of Man” (Matthew 24:27, 29).  Like lightning, like conflagration, like a flood, the attraction exerted by the Son of Man will lay hold of all the whirling elements in the universe so as to reunite them or subject them to his Body.

Infinite Mystery, Infinite Delight (Walker Percy)

This life is much too much trouble, far too strange, to
arrive at the end of it and then be asked what you make of
it and have to answer, `scientific humanism.' That won't
do. A poor show. Life is a mystery, love a delight.
Therefore, I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for
nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite
delight.

The Generous Mystery (Benjiman Britten)

God moves in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea and rides upon the storm. Ye Christian people, of little faith, the clouds you so much dread, are big with mercy and shall break with blessings on your head.