Day 24
A great liturgy
Spend time with the photo

Dawn and sunset are moments 

When the numinous source of all existence 

is experienced with special sensitivity. 

 

In springtime, the flowering world 

sets forth its blossoms.

The birds appear in the brilliance of their coloring, 

in the ease and skill of their flight 

and in the beauty of their song. 

 

Then there are the fearsome moments 

when thunder rolls across the heavens 

and the lightning shatters both 

the sky and the earth.

 

In the northern hemisphere, 

when the autumn comes, 

the fruits appear, the birds depart, 

the leaves fall, darkness settles over the land.

 

In various tropical regions, 

the rain comes more fully 

in their seasonal sequence.

 

Living things come into being, 

flourish, then fade from the scene.

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This ever renewing sequence of sunrise and sunset,

 of seasonal succession

constitutes a pattern of life, 

a great liturgy,

a celebration of existence.

Thomas Berry, The Great Work