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Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Week of 9/5 to 9/10: Exploring Joy, Work, Justice, and Compassion |
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. September 5, 2022 A View on the Sacred Cosmos from Italy. The Italian version of Fox's book Original Blessing translates the title as “In the Beginning there was Joy.” In his preface, Italian philosopher and psychologist Vito Mancuso praises Fox for “putting the good and not the bad at the center, the bene-diction and not
the male-diction (or the sin), the joy and not the sorrow….” |
“Milky Way into the Darkness: I was waiting for her.” Location: Fellito, Italy. Photo by Erriko Boccia on Unsplash. |
September 6, 2022 On Gratitude
for the Immanence of God in Nature. Vito Mancuso gives several examples of how Matthew Fox’s words mirror the thoughts and words of Giordano Bruno, another Dominican whose life-embracing, cosmological views were so threatening to the hierarchy of the Church that he was burned at the stake during the Inquisition. |
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September 7, 2022 Spirituality and Work. In this Labor Day meditation, we explore how the pandemic encouraged us to look at work in new ways. The phrase “quiet quitting” explores how one can remain employed while simultaneously allowing enough energy for that which is important outside of our work
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September 8, 2022 Speaking of Work, Let Us Praise Barbara Ehrenreich. In this meditation, we explore the literary work of thinker, author, and activist Barbara Ehrenreich, who consistently championed
the rights of workers, women, and the underprivileged. |
"RIP Barbara Ehrenreich: Exposed Inequality in 'Nickel and Dimed,' Opposed Health-Industrial Complex." Democracy Now! September 9, 2022 Barbara
Ehrenreich on Joy and Celebration. In this meditation, we celebrate Barbara Ehrenreich’s important book, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy in which she talks about dancing and ecstatic ritual among the earliest peoples of hunter gatherer societies up to today. (We bring this into our
present-day culture with Cosmic Masses.) |
September 10, 2022 Joy + Justice = Compassion. In this DM, we explore Ehrenreich, Eckhart and Rabbi Heschel’s thoughts on Joy, Justice, and Compassion. Says Heschel: God is not only the creator of earth and heaven. He is also the One ‘who creates delight and joy’….Even lowly merriment has its ultimate
origin in holiness. The fire of evil can be better fought with flames of ecstasy than through fasting and mortifications. |
Banner Image: Joyful work. Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels. |
The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood For Our Time Thomas Aquinas said, “To live well is to work well,” and in this bold call for the revitalization of daily work, Fox shares his vision of a
world where our personal and professional lives are celebrated in harmony–a world where the self is not sacrificed for a job but is sanctified by authentic “soul work.” “Fox approaches the level of poetry in describing the reciprocity that must be present between one’s inner and outer work…[A]n important road map to social change.” ~~ National Catholic Reporter | |
The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he unearths ten metaphors, or archetypes, ranging from
the Green Man, an ancient pagan symbol of our fundamental relationship with nature, to the Spiritual Warrior….These timeless archetypes can inspire men to pursue their higher calling to connect to their deepest selves and to reinvent the world. –“A gutsy, courageous book, one that confronts the terrible isolation in which men live with archetypal images that once nurtured, guided, and connected our ancestors
and that still course within the depths of each of us.” –Dr James Hollis, author of What Matters Most | |
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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 |
| 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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