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Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Week of 8/28 to 9/2: Honoring Sacred Creation, Warding off Fascism |
Each Sunday, we are offering a brief summary of the meditations from the previous week, as a kind of “index” inviting you to return to a previous meditation which may call to you. Over the past week we have covered a number of topics. We began with an extended appreciation of the wonders of creation, celebrating the extraordinariness of the world and our need to move beyond grief and into prophetic action….and to help our children to experience awe and wonder at the sacredness of the cosmos. We paused to ground ourselves
in the paths of Creation Spirituality through the practice of meditatively walking the labyrinth, then spent two days bearing witness to the rising danger of fascism in the United States through clandestine religio-political action. We closed the week with a short
meditation inspired by the Dalai Lama: what is the identifying characteristic of our particular faith? |
A video meditation on The Great Work by Thomas Berry. Bruce
Weaver. |
DM 8/29/2022: Praising the Earth, Father Sky and the Cosmos. Julian of Norwich celebrates “God (as) the goodness in nature,” charging us “with the quality of reverence and loving awe,” to “turn ourselves with all our might toward the actions” to which we are
guided. |
the universe be presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest, for it will create in him/her admiration and wonder, a feeling loftier than any interest and more
satisfying. |
DM 8/31/2022: Walking the Labyrinth: A Spiritual Practice with the Four Paths. Mary Ann Wamhoff integrates the practice of walking the labyrinth with the vias positiva, negativa, creativa and transformativa through the steps of connecting, releasing,
receiving, and returning. DM 9/1/2022: Opus Dei and American Fascism Strike It Rich. Stepping into the prophetic work of the Via Transformativa, we considered the implications of a $1.6 billion-dollar donation to the Marble Freedom Trust, headed by Leonard Leo, Opus Dei operative who arranged the appointment of six conservative Supreme Court justices. |
How much is 1.6 billion dollars? If you saved $10,000 every single day, it would take you 438 years to save 1.6 billion. Money by Pixabay from
Pexels. | DM 9/2/2022: American Fascism on the March: Looking further at the $1.6 billion-dollar donation to the Marble Freedom Trust, we considered the potential impact of such money
in the hands of a man who has demonstrated his commitment to overthrow the impartiality of the judiciary and is already funding |
organizations pushing false claims about election fraud and promoting more restrictive voting
rules. DM 9/3/2022: A Short
Meditation with the Dalai Lama. Contemplating a story of how the Dalai Lama defines what makes a Buddhist, we explored what is the defining characteristic of our particular faith tradition. |
Matthew Fox: Essential Writings on Creation Spirituality To encapsulate the life and work of Matthew Fox would be a daunting task for any save his colleague Dr. Charles Burack, who had the full cooperation of his subject. Fox has devoted 50 years to developing and teaching the tradition of Creation Spirituality and in doing so has reinvented forms of education and worship. His more than 40 books, translated into 78 languages, are inclusive of today’s science and world spiritual traditions and have awakened millions to the much neglected earth-based mystical tradition of the West. Essential Writings begins by exploring the influences on Fox’s life
and spirituality, then presents selections from all Fox’s major works in 10 sections. “The critical insights, the creative connections, the centrality of Matthew Fox’s writings and teaching are second to none for the radical renewal of Christianity.” ~~ Richard Rohr, OFM. | |
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Join Matthew Fox in a 6-week virtual course on “Mystics, Mysticism and Ourselves as Mystic-Prophets,” hosted by Creation Spirituality Communities. Wednesdays, 8/24, 8/31,
9/7, 9/14, 9/21, and 9/28, 4:00pm-6:00pm PT. Register HERE. Join Matthew Fox and Neil Douglas-Klotz for “The Aramaic Jesus and the Cosmic Christ: Enduring Lessons for a World in
Confusion,” a live video conversation online, a pre-launch event for the release of Revelations of the Aramaic Jesus,
Sunday, September 11, 10:00am-11:15am PT. Register HERE. Join Matthew Fox for the monthly Our Lady of the Prairie Retreat, discussing The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, Thursday, September
15, 4:00pm-6:00pm PT. Register HERE. Matthew Fox, Caroline Myss, and Andrew Harvey offer a 3-part series of solo online lectures on “The Power of Truth, Wisdom, Choice Part 2” through the Sophia Institute in Charleston, SC. Wednesdays, September 21, 28, October 5, 3:00pm-4:30pm PT. Register HERE. |
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Creation Spirituality in Conversation |
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Andrew Harvey, author of The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism, interviews Matthew Fox on The Essential Writings of Creation Spirituality,
July 26, 2022. |
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