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A Thank You to Queen Elizabeth |
We have been meditating on work and spirituality and we are remembering a woman who worked very hard at her very public job for seventy years for all the world to see. |
My first memory of Queen Elizabeth was when I was 12 years old and our family went to a friends’ house to watch her coronation on TV (we did not have a TV then). She has been a queen to most Englanders and millions of other
people in the Commonwealth and around the earth ever since. | Princess Elizabeth pledges herself to the service of all her people on her 21st birthday. She kept her pledge to the end. The Royal Family Channel. |
My heart goes out to those who have lost the only queen they have known and are feeling a deep loss. Many words and tributes to Queen Elizabeth are emerging. Bishop Marc Andrus of the Northern California
diocese praised her for a recent missive she sent to Anglican bishops from around the world meeting in England urging them to address climate change and the rights of the poor. And for her genuine faith that she practiced sincerely and that sustained her through her years. |
From the United States to South Africa, New Zealand to Ukraine, the world has come together to remember the Queen. Channel 4 News | An article in the Jesuit publication America praised her for her courage in being the first monarch to visit Ireland (where understandably there is still much hurt and trauma from the wounds of the British empire days). |
In doing so she is said to have exemplified a kind of forgiveness for the murder of her close relative Lord Mountbatten by the Irish Republican Army. In a eulogy by a Roman Catholic archbishop in Belfast today, she was praised for her acts of reconciliation between Catholics and Protestants during bloody times. I honor her as a strong and smart woman who committed herself generously to her work and sense of duty and vocation. I also liked her keen interest in animals and nature, especially dogs and horses and the outdoors. |
She reigned through times of the dismantling of the British Empire and the emergence of a Commonwealth of nations in its place. She did it with grace and
graciousness. | “Queen Elizabeth II in her own words” – a retrospective of her 70-year reign. Guardian News |
(Now is not the time to discuss morality and empires, though clearly we are living in an Age of
Reckoning around slavery, colonialism and empire building in America, England and other colonial powers as well.) She knew the limits of her very limited role. No doubt the future of the monarchy in England will evolve and become even
more limited now that her era has passed. We praise her for her strength and devotion to her vocation. We hope our dedication to ours is equally generous. |
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See Matthew Fox, The Reinvention of Work. Banner Image: Queen Elizabeth in Berlin, 2015, giving her famous wave in her signature bright colors. Photo by PolizeiBerlin on Wikimedia Commons. |
Queries for Contemplation What are your memories of Queen Elizabeth? What did she and the role she played mean to you? |
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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
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See Matthew Fox's full calendar HERE
Join scholars Matthew Fox and Thomas G. Hermans-Webster for Progressive Christianity's monthly “Things that Matter” discussion on eco-spirituality: “The
Intersection of Faith and Climate Justice.” Available on Facebook Page or YouTube Channel on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 11 a.m. PT (GMT/UTC-7), 2:00 p.m. ET. Learn more HERE 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 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
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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. Creation Spirituality in Conversation |
| Join scholars Matthew Fox and Thomas G. Hermans-Webster for Progressive Christianity's monthly “Things that Matter” discussion on eco-spirituality: “The Intersection of Faith and Climate Justice.” Available on
Facebook Page or YouTube Channel on Thursday,
Sept. 15 at 11 a.m. Pacific (GMT/UTC-7), 2:00 p.m. Eastern. Learn more HERE |
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