Dear Marg,
… as I write to you, I am bringing my thoughts under your most powerful influence that exists here on earth, under the influence of the dying Lord – and coincidentally, my letter might reach you, at least I hope, on Easter Monday morning. I would be very glad if this morning brings light and peace to your heart, no matter what the outer circumstances may be – a peace born from trust in Him who has overcome death, that is, who can arrange for each of our diminishments to turn into a growth of life in Him.
(Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ /1881–1955/, letter to his cousin, Good Friday 1919;
quoted from the book Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Birth of Thought. Letters 1914–1919, Malvern 2021)
