Not even tomorrow, on the Assumption, will there be a mass. I will try to make up for it with a longer meditation. As it is said in the gospel for this feast, let us strive to firmly possess and so to speak inhabit the "unum necessarium", the one thing that is necessary.
(Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ /1881–1955/, letter from the front, to his cousin, August 14, 1918;
quoted from the book Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Birth of Thought. Letters 1914–1919, Malvern 2021)