Owensboro, Ky., Aug 21, 2017 / 10:23 am
As Americans prepare to view a total solar eclipse passing from Oregon to South Carolina, the director of the Vatican observatory has reflected on what the event can teach us about God and his creation.
An eclipse "reminds us of the immense beauty in the universe that occurs outside of our own petty set of concerns," Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, told Time magazine. "It pulls us out of ourselves and makes us remember that we are part of a big and glorious and beautiful universe."
Brother Guy is in Hopkinsville, Ky., 80 miles southwest of Owensboro, one of the places where the Aug. 21 total eclipse will last the longest.
The eclipse reflects that "God chose to make a universe that was rational, so that we could predict these eclipses with enormous precision," he said.