Growing in Radiance with Teilhard de Chardin

A virtual program facilitated by Kathleen Duffy, SSJ

May 7, 2025, 6-8 p.m. U.S./EDT

$45 (inquire about partial scholarships)

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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. 
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” - Teilhard de Chardin

 

About this offering

Radiance, the ability to see beneath the surface of Matter and into its Heart, is the hallmark of a true contemplative. In The Divine Milieu, Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin teaches us how to deepen our ability both to access the radiance of Matter’s inner face and to respond to the Divine Presence.

During this Zoom-based program, we will use a Lectio Divina style and will read and pray with one of Teilhard’s most beautiful mystical essays in which he shares with us the inner glow that throughout his life drew him more and more deeply into an encounter with the living presence of Christ Incarnate in Matter. There will also be time for reflection, sharing, and a short ritual.

About the presenter

Kathleen Duffy, SSJ is Professor Emerita of Physics and Director of the Institute for Religion and Science at Chestnut Hill College. She is President of the American Teilhard Association, Associate Editor of Teilhard Studies, a biannual publication of the American Teilhard Association, and serves on the Board of Cosmos and Creation. Her current research interest concerns the religious essays of Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the relationship of his synthesis to modern developments in science. She has published Teilhard’s Mysticism: Seeing the Inner Face of Evolution (Orbis 2014), Teilhard’s Struggle: Embracing the Work of Evolution (Orbis 2019), an edited volume of essays about Teilhard’s life and work entitled Rediscovering Teilhard’s Fire (St. Joseph’s University 2010), as well as numerous book chapters and articles about Teilhard.