I don’t think it has yet found its audience, or been
realized for what it is. It is a story,
yes . . . but more, it's a spiritual journey.
It is set between 1951 and 1999 (beginning before Vatican II
and ending before the arrival of the 21st Century).
This story is written in honor of Jesuit priest and
Paleontologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
Teilhard saw and understood before others the meaning of evolution and
human freedom. He died in 1955 in N.Y.
City where he had been exiled by the Church and the Order that he loved, having
been forbidden to publish any of his writings (some 20 volumes). He sacrificed himself because he knew the
truth of the Science he had studied and the Religion he had embraced. He held the faith that because ‘God is
Truth’, therefore the truth he’d been privileged to understand would survive
his death. Immediately following his
death—when his Jesuit Order and the Vatican were no longer controlling—those
not so confined began publishing his works, which are now held in high esteem. His vision is of unity; leading humanity to
realize that our world is a singular interacting unit and that Science and
Religion are not in conflict—rather, they are two sides of the same coin of
human knowledge and understanding.
The book I have written is not about Teilhard but rather
about a fictional artist who is commissioned to create grand Stations of the
Cross for a proposed shrine. In the
story, as the artist searched for what he is to say with these stations he
suffers a ‘dark night of the soul’ before he awakens to what Teilhard was
pointing to, and he, like Teilhard meets resistance as he gives expression to
the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life in our one world. His stations exemplify the range of human
potential—its wonders and its horrors—which IS the story of Jesus’ Passion.
Throughout the story each station is described with both its
traditional and contemporary theme as the artist seeks to move others to realizing
what we are, who we are and how we
relate to the God of the Universe.
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