This Dear Planet’s Dear People
Br Matthew Sawczyn, LC
“When silence lay all over, and night had run half her swift course, your all-powerful Word, O Lord, leaped down from heaven, from the royal throne” (Wis 18:14-15).
“All things came to be through Him… He was in the world, and the world came to be through Him, but the world did not know Him. He came to what was his own, but his own people did not accept Him. But to those who did accept Him, he gave power to become sons of God” (Jn 1:3, 10-12).
Our universe stretches about 80 billion trillion miles in each direction. Nebulae, the leftovers of supernovas, light up the darkness with their beautiful clouds of pink or purple or blue. Comets soar at unbelievable speeds, and stars with crushing densities whirl as if they were weightless. Galaxies upon galaxies fill this unimaginably vast space. One of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy, one of its 100 billion, is average — only 27 million degrees Fahrenheit, with flares only 300,000 miles long. Read more
