Fr. Seán ÓLaoire

We honour you.

God the mathematician, we honor you.

You who love to play with binary codes, with base 4 and 6 and 8, with rational numbers and with irrational numbers, with real numbers and with imaginary numbers.

You who from nothing created the one, and from the one created the partnership of the two, and from the two created the many.

and then, from the many, collapsed all mystically back to the one, which vanishes into the womb of nothingness, awaiting rebirth.

We honor you.

Guide the physicist.

We honor you.

Quantum leaping from the impossible to the possible, from the improbable to the probable, and from the potential to the actual.

We honor you.

God, the biologist, we honor you.

You who whirl ecstatically around your own image in the double helix of life-making, we honor you.

God the architect, we honor you.

You who silently whisper the secrets of home building in the hearts of beaver birds and ants, in the hearts of spiders and mice, in the sacred geometry of the temple makers and in the wombs of mammal mothers.

We honor you.

God the Awakener, we honor you.

You who patiently call forth more and more complete images of yourself until a species is born that remembers fully.

You who send avatars into every age to nudge religion towards spirituality and to move us from mere belief in gods to experiences of the God within and the God among us.

You who are the sender of Siddhartha and the commissioner of the Christ.

You who continue to send countless others to awaken us from illusion.