{"id":4831,"date":"2025-12-01T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/?p=4831"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:32:12","slug":"orbis-books-thomas-berry-a-book-of-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/orbis-books-thomas-berry-a-book-of-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbis Books: Thomas Berry: A Book of Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>\u201cWe come here to begin to relieve an ancient wrong. We wish especially to restore to this Earth its ancient joy. For while much of what we have done is beyond healing, there is a resilience throughout the land that only awaits its opportunity to flourish once again with something of its ancient splendor.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; \u2014 Thomas Berry<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Berry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thomas Berry<\/a>, a Passionist priest, ecological prophet and self-described \u201cgeologian,\u201d is the focus of this \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/orbisbooks.com\/products\/thomas-berry-book-of-hours?srsltid=AfmBOoqEpcz_OyJLhnx_wVyBHXXbWs0h5_CS38FWMs8z2CPUjl9fipXX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Book of Hours<\/a>.\u201d Editor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iona.edu\/academics\/schools-institutes\/kathleen-deignan-cnd-institute-earth-and-spirit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kathleen Deignan<\/a>, a Sister of the Congregation of Notre Dame and the editor of previous \u201cbreviaries\u201d drawn from Thomas Merton and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, has arranged readings from Berry under themes divided into eight days. Each day includes prayers, hymns and readings for the four moments of the day: Dawn, Day, Dusk and Dark. The result is truly a book of hours, a guide to daily prayer and meditation drawn from Berry\u2019s profound, faith-filled understanding of nature and our place in the earth community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berry, who died in 2009, became well-known for his work on what he called \u201cthe universe story,\u201d the effort to set our own human story within the immensity of the vast and evolving universe. In his many books, including <a href=\"https:\/\/thomasberry.org\/the-dream-of-the-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Dream of the Earth<\/em><\/a>, he outlined the principles of ecology and defined the \u201cgreat work\u201d that lies before us: to develop an \u201cEcozoic\u201d consciousness capable of sustaining life on this planet. His work anticipated the principles of Pope Francis\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Laudato Si\u2019<\/em><\/a> with its call for \u201cecological conversion\u201d and a spirituality attuned to care for our common home. This Book of Hours could well serve as an invitation to incorporate that spirituality in our personal prayer and corporate worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book begins with a meditation by Berry on a boyhood experience while standing in a meadow filled with lilies. That numinous moment, he said, provided orientation and meaning to his later life, an early intuition of the mystery of life and our relationship with nature. \u201cWhatever preserves and enhances this meadow in the natural cycles of its transformation is good,\u201d he concluded; \u201cwhat is opposed to this meadow or negates it is not good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This lesson applied to many dimensions of life, including religion: \u201cReligion too, it seems to me, takes its origin here in the deep mystery of this setting. The more a person thinks of the infinite number of interrelated activities taking place here the more mysterious it all becomes, the more meaning a person finds in the Maytime blooming of the lilies, the more awestruck a person might be in simply looking out over this little patch of meadowland.\u201d This theme of interconnection of all created beings, and the challenge to allow this truth to shape our spirituality and our practice, permeates the texts gathered here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Describing the motive for this work, Sister Kathleen writes: \u201cOurs is an era of both evolutionary and revolutionary transmutations affecting every facet of terrestrial life. We cosmic pilgrims are making our way on a heroic journey in an ineffable, still-unfolding universe toward a destiny both unknown and unimaginable. For such a hazardous adventure we need guides of all sorts. 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