Dear friends,
Threats of re-confinement are again invading our media. Fortunately for us, Teilhard’s thought is an inexhaustible source of riches in these moments of planetary crisis where we too often have the impression of wandering from trial and error to trial and error… To understand them, let us reread how, in 1932, he presented Life and the Evolution to the students of the National Peking University : A Consciousness that gradually awakens in the course of infinite trial and error … and he concluded by giving them the following advice: Not only to know, – but to make advance further, in us, the Evolution. [T. III, p. 255]
It is thus with serenity that we resume the thread of our newsletters, with an extract of the letter of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to his cousin Marguerite, which he wrote from Tientsin, on August 7, 1927. It is proposed by Robert Mayet of the Toulon Reading Group : ” It is that, if I have not had time to think, for the last three months, on the other hand, I have experienced a settling down and a clarification of my ideas, the important elements taking their true value. And then I perceive more clearly how my inner life is definitely dominated by these two twin mountains: an unlimited faith in our Lord, animator of the World, and an unconfusable faith in the world (especially human) animated by God…. I feel resolved to declare myself a “believer” in the future of the World in spite of appearances, in spite of a false orthodoxy that confuses progress with materialism, change with liberalism, human perfection with naturalism. ” [Lettres de voyage (1923-1955, Grasset, p.106]
Association of Friends of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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VIDEO CONFERENCING:
- Monday, March 15, 2021, 6:00 pm / 7:30 pm – Organized by Art, Culture and Faith, as part of the 23rd week of the Marais Chrétien, a videoconference by Bertrand Vergely, philosopher: Joy as a path to wisdom... It is necessary to register online (5€)
by following this link
- Work has only just begun on the construction of the future Teilhard de Chardin Center in Saclay, but conferences, open to all, are already being offered at . The videos of the last conferences are available on the site
Center Teilhard de Chardin – YouTube
- The Semaines Sociales de France propose to follow online, each week, a replay of the 94th Meeting 2020, A society to rebuild, let’s commit ourselves. This week, Cynthia Fleury’s conference, Who am I to change the world ?
Click here
- The René Girard Association proposes a series of videoconferences
Violence and representation
(
click here to read the presentation of the cycle
). The third conference of this cycle, by Jérôme Thélot, Guéricautl – Genealogy of painting, is scheduled for Saturday 13 at 3pm. Registration required on Eventbrite, by following
this link
(free). You can also watch the first two conferences,
click here
.
CHRONICLES
Teilhard Today
on RCF : Every Saturday at 18:15, listen to the chronicle Teilhard Aujourd’hui, on RCF Maguelone Hérault, or download it in podcast on site.
Click here
. Consult the provisional program from March 1st to June 27th 2021
COURSES : The Collège des Bernardins offers two new MOOCs:
Living death
, starting April 12, with Blandine Humbert, and
Living Heaven
starting October 4, with Fr. Nathanaël Pujos. To view the seven courses currently available,
click on the SINOD website
.
READ : The Consolation of the Angel by Frédéric LENOIR (Livre de Poche, 2019). An initiatory dialogue between an old lady in the twilight of her life and a young suicidal man, from Jung to Spinoza, through Victor Hugo and Etty Hillesum.
LISTEN :
The Miserere of Allegri
TEILHARD WORLD :
Link to the international bulletin of February 2021
