De chardin biography
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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by Fr. John Welch, O.Carm.
The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) is an unlikely place for a pilgrimage. But recently I went there to visit the grave of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. The location formerly had been the novitiate for the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, on the Hudson River in Hyde Park, New York. The cooking school bought the location and maintains the graves of hundreds of Jesuits, among them Chardin's.
It was a pilgrimage for me. When I was finishing theology studies and preparing to be ordained, I was looking for something inspirational about the priesthood. I came across an article by Teilhard de Chardin. This Jesuit priest was a paleontologist and geologist who, among other explorations, spent years in China studying geology, the natural world, and prehistoric human life.
The article, written about 1924, was titled "Mass on the World." On the steppes of Asia, Chardin found himself without bread, or wine or an altar. He prayed to the Lord,
"I, your priest, will make the whole earth my altar and on it will offer you all the labors and suffering of the world. ... all the things in the world to which this day will bring increase; all those that will diminish; all those too that will die; all of them Lord, I try to gather in