The Teilhard Project

01/01/2025

On this , we recall the New Year’s prayer Teilhard de Chardin once offered: “At the beginning of this new year, what we ask of that universal presence which envelops us all, is first to reunite us, as in a shared, living center with those whom we love, those who, so far away from us here, are themselves beginning this same new year.” Teilhard continues: “Then, considering what must be the boundless power of this force, we beseech it to take a favorable hand for us and for our friends and families in the tangled and seemingly uncontrollable web of events that await us in the months ahead. So may success crown our enterprises. So may joy dwell in our hearts and all around us. So may what sorrow cannot be spared us be transfigured into a finer joy, the joy of knowing that we have occupied each his own station in the universe, and that, in that station, we have done as we ought.”

Learn more about this French Jesuit priest and scientist in the PBS documentary TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist. Stream it on the free PBS app (download at https://bit.ly/DownloadPBSApp), or use PBS Passport. Or use this direct link, https://to.pbs.org/3R89ycC, available to international viewers as well. Visit our website, www.teilhardproject.com for more resources.

12/25/2024

Teilhard de Chardin served as a stretcher-bearer for the French army during World War I. As part of a series of letters to his cousin Marguerite (“The Making of a Mind: Letters From a Soldier-Priest 1914-1919”), he penned this reflection on December 24, 1915: “We too are going to have our Christmas celebrations. At the spontaneous request of the officers and men I shall be saying midnight mass in the village church very beautifully decorated by the daughter and son from the chateau, with whose help, too, I have been able to teach the men some carols…. I must tell myself, and I think I'll come to feel it, that no Christmas night will ever have meant more to me than this one I am about to spend on the straw this evening."

Learn more about this French Jesuit priest and scientist in the PBS documentary TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist. Stream it on the free PBS app (download at https://bit.ly/DownloadPBSApp), or use PBS Passport. Or use this direct link, https://to.pbs.org/3R89ycC, available to international viewers as well. Visit our website, www.teilhardproject.com for more resources.

12/03/2024

In this week after Thanksgiving, we give thanks again for your generosity in support of making the work and witness of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin better known. We are grateful that “Teilhard: Visionary Scientist” is now streaming nationally and internationally, receiving an extraordinarily positive reception around the world! More than 35,000 viewers worldwide have now seen the film, and it has been translated into Mandarin, as well as Arabic, Turkish, and Farsi, for future satellite broadcast in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

On this we come to you again, to seek your help, most grateful for whatever you can donate to support our ongoing efforts, including:

• EXPANDING the film’s audience with future broadcasts and streaming
• ENHANCING the resources available online for study and reflection
• EDUCATING about his writings and life through community outreach

“The task before us is to build the earth,” Teilhard wrote. The future of the earth is in our hands – and we invite you, through your prayers and financial help, to join us in that effort.

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11/28/2024

On this , we recall this prayer of gratitude of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:
“I thank you, my God, for having in a thousand different ways led my eyes to discover the immense simplicity of things. Little by little, through the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you cause me to undergo, through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside the milieu in which all is made one.”

Learn more about this French Jesuit priest and scientist in the PBS documentary TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist. Stream it on the free PBS app (download at https://bit.ly/DownloadPBSApp), or use PBS Passport. Or use this direct link, https://to.pbs.org/3R89ycC, available to international viewers as well. Visit our website, www.teilhardproject.com for more resources.

11/11/2024

During World War I in France, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, as a priest, was eligible to serve as a chaplain with an officer’s rank. He chose instead to serve as a stretcher bearer with rank-and-file soldiers. “When one enters the battle-zone, one is no longer the same person one was before,” he said. Reflecting on his experience in the trenches he wrote: “I made a tour of the trenches on the eve of the attack to see people I knew and to give Communion to some… You can't imagine what emotions I then experienced, nor what one feels is conveyed in the clasp of a man who shakes one's hand, at a bend in a communication trench, after one has given him God.” Learn more from the documentary, "Teilhard: Visionary Scientist" now at this link: https://www.pbs.org/.../teilhard-visionary-scientist-pt9dc1/

10/26/2024

This afternoon (Saturday, October 26) at 3 PM ET, the film TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist will be broadcast in the Washington, DC, market on WETA Metro Channel. WETA Metro can be accessed in the DC area on these cable outlets – Comcast (Channels 270 and 1148), Verizon FIOS (Channel 470), Cox (Channel 802) and RCN (Channel 599). The film can also be streamed here: https://www.pbs.org/.../teilhard-visionary-scientist-pt9dc1/
More information and resources may be found at https://www.teilhardproject.com/.

10/19/2024

In one week, on Saturday, October 26, at 3 PM ET, the film TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist will be broadcast in the Washington, DC, market on WETA Metro Channel. WETA Metro can be accessed in the DC area on these cable outlets – Comcast (Channels 270 and 1148), Verizon FIOS (Channel 470), Cox (Channel 802) and RCN (Channel 599). The film can also be streamed here: https://www.pbs.org/video/teilhard-visionary-scientist-pt9dc1/
More information and resources may be found at https://www.teilhardproject.com/.

10/16/2024

On this , we salute the work of today’s paleontologists, as we also remember the contributions of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to the discovery and preservation of fossils. Learn more about this French Jesuit priest and scientist in the PBS documentary TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist. Stream it on the free PBS app (download at https://bit.ly/DownloadPBSApp), or use PBS Passport. Or use this direct link, https://to.pbs.org/3R89ycC, available to international viewers as well. Visit our website, www.teilhardproject.com for more resources.

08/24/2024

On this day in 1911 in France, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was ordained a priest. Priesthood became central to his personal identity. He wrote, “Because I am a priest, I am determined in the future to be the first to realize what the world loves, what it seeks for, what it suffers; the first to join in the search, to feel with the world, to know suffering; more widely human and more nobly of this earth than any man who serves the world.”

Learn more about this French Jesuit priest and scientist in the PBS documentary TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist. Stream it on the free PBS app (download at https://bit.ly/DownloadPBSApp), or use PBS Passport. Or use this direct link, https://to.pbs.org/3R89ycC, available to international viewers as well. Visit our website, www.teilhardproject.com for more resources.

08/12/2024

TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist is a Smash Hit!

Since the first broadcast of TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist on May 19, the film has been available for streaming nationally on the free PBS app. The film is also now available for streaming internationally as well, via a separate direct link. (See links below)

The response has been astounding.

More than 20,000 viewers tuned into the show in the first four weeks of streaming. We’ll receive another update soon. We've heard from viewers in Australia, Ireland, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Malaysia, Argentina, and more.

Kevin Gallagher, in Christchurch, New Zealand, booked the film to full houses in a commercial theater for three days.

In the U.S., a dozen screenings have already been hosted across the country, in Washington, DC, Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York City, Atlanta, Cincinnati, and Chicago.

Reactions demonstrate how hungry viewers are to learn about Teilhard.

Here's what they are saying: “Beautifully done! Totally gripping!” ~ "So wide in scope and imagery, so rich in information!" ~ A fantastic piece of work!" ~ “Deeply touching.” ~ “A work of art, legacy, beauty, and love.” ~ “I have just experienced an elevation of thought and deep spirituality.” ~ “Absolutely stunning.” ~ “Bravissimo!”

THANKS TO YOU for helping make this film possible!

Now let's spread the word! Help others learn about this transformative figure in science, spirituality, and vision of the future.

Your gifts of time and talent, your moral support, your prayers, your continuing financial contributions will help us reach a broad audience.


LINKS FOR VIEWING TEILHARD: VISIONARY SCIENTIST
To download the free PBS app to your television:
https://www.mpt.org/anywhere/pbs-app/
(or watch on PBS Passport if you already have it).

Direct link accessible internationally:
https://www.pbs.org/video/teilhard-visionary-scientist-pt9dc1/

DVDs are also available, which can be purchased at the MPT Store, (or call 800-873-6154) for $19.95 + s/h.

Frank and Mary Frost

08/11/2024

You’re invited by The American Teilhard Association to an online conversation of our documentary TEILHARD, Visionary Scientist, this Tuesday, August 13. Watch the film in advance, and then join Sister Kathleen Duffy SSJ at 7 PM ET to explore the life and theological and scientific contributions of Teilhard de Chardin. REGISTER for the ATA online conversation at this link: https://bit.ly/ATA08132024Event.

STREAM the documentary at https://to.pbs.org/3R89ycC. Or download the free PBS app on your TV at https://bit.ly/DownloadPBSApp.

07/24/2024

Asking yourself where to start your reading of Teilhard de Chardin? For spiritual inspiration try The Divine Milieu. Want to understand his vision of evolution? Try The Human Phenomenon. And check out our new RESOURCES PAGE for more options of books and writings by Teilhard and about him. https://bit.ly/TdCWritings

07/21/2024

Today, Sunday, July 21, AT 4 PM ET watch the encore broadcast of the documentary film TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist on Maryland Public Television. Even if you aren’t in the Baltimore-Washington area, you can still stream it on your own schedule by downloading the PBS free app (https://bit.ly/DownloadPBSApp), or use PBS Passport in the US. And here’s a direct link for international viewers as well as U.S. residents: https://to.pbs.org/3R89ycC.

07/07/2024

In two weeks, on Sunday, July 21, AT 4 PM ET there will be the encore presentation of the documentary film TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist on Maryland Public Television.

07/04/2024

“Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.“ This quote from Teilhard de Chardin launches the documentary film, TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist. Watch the film now at this link: https://www.pbs.org/video/teilhard-visionary-scientist-pt9dc1/

05/24/2024

Here is NEWS, especially for our INTERNATIONAL friends, although it works in the US as well. With a new streaming link that follows, you can just click on it, and the link will take you directly to the film, no password or searching required. We have had reports that it is working in multiple countries. So, if it doesn’t work for you, let us know. This link will also be available for 2 years, however only on your computer or tablet.

Film about French priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who was exiled for his beliefs.

05/21/2024

Thank you to all who tuned in to Teilhard: Visionary Scientist on Sunday. We hope you enjoyed it – as much as you could see of it. It was excruciating for us (and for you) to see that brief gaps appeared twice during the film and that the last five minutes were totally missing. Maryland Public Television (MPT) deeply regrets the technical difficulty and immediately scheduled an encore broadcast for July 21, at 4:00 pm.

You need not wait that long, however, to see the film in its entirety. You can now stream it at any time anywhere in the country on the free PBS app. The app can be downloaded at https://www.mpt.org/anywhere/pbs-app/.

When you sign into the PBS app you’ll need to search for the title Teilhard: Visionary Scientist. It will be available for streaming free for the next two years.

Another option is a DVD, which can be purchased from MPT at the MPT Store, (or call 800-873-6154) for $19.95 + s/h

05/20/2024

Starting today, the film, “TEILHARD: Visionary Scientist,” is available to view (in the United States) on the free PBS App. Visit https://bit.ly/DownloadPBSApp to download the App for your mobile phone or tablet, as well as for your Smart TV. Search the App for the film’s title, and enjoy! For international viewing and to watch on your computer / tablet, visit https://to.pbs.org/3R89ycC