Center for Christogenesis

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Meditation by St. Symeon the New Theologian

We awaken in Christ’s body as Christ awakens our bodies, and my poor hand is Christ.  He enters my foot, and is infinitely me. I move my hand, and wonderfully…

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This is You, by Francisco Burgos

My stillness in turbulent timesmy loaf of breadmy warm beverage on cold morningsmy shelter and dry towel. The sustaining physics behind my clay vesselthe note that defines my musicmy Gabriel’s…

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Psalms for Praying, An Invitation to Wholeness, by Nan C. Merrill

Psalm 1  Blessed are those    who walk hand in hand   with goodness,    who stand beside virtue,     who sit in the seat of truth; For their delight is in the…

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Embers, One Ojibway’s Meditations, by Richard Wagamese (Excerpted)

I am my silence. I am not the business of my thoughts or the daily rhythm of my actions. I am not the stuff that constitutes my world. I am…

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The Lord’s Prayer (An interpretation from the Aramaic)

O Creative breath, ebbing and flowing through all forms, soften the ground of our being and hollow a place for the planting of your presence. Moving to the heartbeat of…

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It Takes a Universe, by Thomas Berry

The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of wonder. Imagination to a world of beauty. Emotions to a world of intimacy. It takes…

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 “Hymn to Matter,” from Hymn of the Universe, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Blessed be you, harsh matter, barren soil, stubborn rock: you who yield only to violence, you who force us to work if we would eat.   Blessed be you, perilous matter,…

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Patient Trust, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient  in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to skip the intermediate stages.…

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Prayer by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 

Lord, by every innate impulse and through all the hazards of my life, I have been driven ceaselessly to search for you and to set you in the heart of…