As a teenager I read all sorts of things. Some of them I re-read later and of course understood more. One of the books  in this category is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's  Le Divin Mileu. My religious upbringing was loosely Presbyterian, but my parents admired Jesuits for their intellect. Perhaps that is what drew me to this book. There is a fictional character base don de Chardin in Morris West's The Shoes of the Fisherman. 

    In a Lutheran seminary later on my appreciation for the Sacrament of the Altar increased; a Jesuit once told me that was a grace. I recalled something I had read from de Charin:

All the communions of a life-time are one communion.

All the communions of all men now living are one com-

munion.

All the communions of all men, present, past and future,

are one communion.

Have we ever sufficiently considered the physical im-

mensity of man, and his extraordinary relations with the

universe, in order to realise in our minds the formidable

implications of this elementary truth?

Let us conjure up in our minds, as best we can, the vast

multitudes of men in every epoch and in every land. Accord-

ing to the catechism we believe that this fearful anonymous

throng is, by right, subject to the physical and overmaster-

ing contact of him whose appanage it is to be able omnia sibi

subicere (by right, and to a certain extent in fact; for who

can tell where the diffusion of Christ, with the influence of

grace, stops, as it spreads outward from the faithful at the

heart of the human family?). Yes, the human layer of the

earth is wholly and continuously under the organising in-

flux of the incarnate Christ. This we all believe, as one of

the most certain points of our faith.  -Le Divin Mileu

Some of these thoughts appeared in "The Telos of Time", from Accents, KDP Publishing ©2018,( my second book of poetry:

III

At the axis mundi

where the veil between

eternity and time

is somewhat lifted,

we experience the

moment above time,

the transcendent moment

where Creator and creature

Redeemer and redeemed,

Sanctifier and sanctified

from all places and times,

Host holding a host

shatter time as it is measured

transitioning into timelessness.

Finally, some biographical information
https://www.ignatianspirituality.com/ignatian-voices/20th-century-ignatian-voices/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin-sj