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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Good morning,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">As the semester comes to a close:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"Above all, trust in the slow work of God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We are quite naturally impatient in everything<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">to reach the end without delay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We should like to skip the intermediate stages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We are impatient of being on the way to something<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">unknown, something new.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">And yet it is the law of all progress<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">that it is made by passing through<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">some stages of instability—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">and that it may take a very long time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">And so I think it is with you;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">your ideas mature gradually—let them grow,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">let them shape themselves, without undue haste.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Don’t try to force them on,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">as though you could be today what time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(that is to say, grace and circumstances<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">acting on your own good will)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">will make of you tomorrow.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Fr Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">French Jesuit priest, scientist, paleontologist, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">theologian, philosopher and teacher.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The end of a semester has its unique stressors. Pls know you are remembered in my prayer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Blessings and peace,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Rock Salt";color:#2F5597"><img width="121" height="35" style="width:1.2604in;height:.3645in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D74D63.FB984380" alt="signature_884613595"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Reverend Michael B. Medas, MSW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Catholic Chaplain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Massachusetts Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">W11-012 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">40 Massachusetts Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cambridge, MA 02139<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">“<i>But now thus says the Lord,<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> He who created you, O Jacob,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> He who formed you, O Israel:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I have called you by name, you are mine.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Isaiah 43:1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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