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Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox
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Week of 11/21-26: Praise and Thanksgiving; Grief and the Need for Rites of Passage |
Each Sunday we offer 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. |
A song for the sacred elements. This is a wordless song for ceremony and prayer by Chenoa Egawa (Lummi and S’Klallam) and Alex Turtle (Diné and Southern Cheyenne) Originally posted to YouTube by Swan Clan Productions. |
November 22, 2022. Grief in Colorado Springs: The Latest Mass Shooting in America.
Today we acknowledge not only humanity’s capacity for praise, but also for hatred and violence. We mourn the senseless deaths of at least five people in a LGBTQ+ club in Colorado Springs. The killer was, yet again, another young man. Spiritual teacher Malidoma Some warns us that when we don’t have initiation processes in place for
young men, we are practically inviting anger and violence to be expressed in unhealthy ways. |
November 23, 2022. More on Grieving the Loss of Young Life.
As young people were killed in three separate and horrific incidents recently, we ask the question Why? Among the reasons are: hatred stirred up by the inflammatory speeches of certain politicians, the NRA and the easy accessability of guns, and
the spread of adultism where older people may unconsciously resent young people and will not step up to the plate to help teach values and virtuous living. | | | |
November 24, 2022. Thanksgiving, 2022.
We give thanks for this beautiful prayer of thanks from the Iroquois people. Here is part of it: For Mother Earth: We give thanks and greetings to the Earth; she
is giving us that which makes us strong and healthy. She supports our feet as we walk upon her. We are grateful that she continues to perform her duties as she was instructed. The women and Mother Earth are one, givers of life. |
November 25, 2022. A Preferential Option for the Young?
As we continue to ask how we can prevent such tragic loss of young life, often at the hands of a
young man, we once again turn to African elder Malidoma Some. He tells us that when a society is lacking in rites of passage, the young are confused and angry, the adults are bewildered, and the elders are missing. We explore ways that we can help to develop a healthy masculine in our culture as well as celebrating the divine feminine. |
November 26, 2022. Caring for the Earth and Other Preferential Options for the Young.
In this meditation we reflect on the state of the planet that we are passing on to our young people. Do we care about the Earth that they are inheriting? How else might we nurture, celebrate, and
encourage our youth? Three possible ways are: the Cosmic Mass, the Order of the Sacred Earth, and redesigning our educational system. For instance, we could begin to incorporate more wisdom in our schools by revivifying the arts and creativity. |
Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew is often neglected by Christian theology): the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias
Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
“Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may have originated.” –Thomas Berry, author, The Dream of the Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and
Society Visionary theologian and best-selling author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of
ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a better vision and depth of perception far beyond the grasp of any one single science. A breath-taking analysis.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, author
of Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the new Physics | |
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound exploration of the meaning and practice of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the future that promises personal, social, and global healing, Fox marries mysticism with social
justice, leading the way toward a gentler and more ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate activity.
“Well worth our deepest consideration…Puts compassion into its proper focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register | |
The A.W.E. Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human
The A.W.E. Project reminds us that awe is the appropriate response to the unfathomable wonder
that is creation... A.W.E. is also the acronym for Fox's proposed style of learning - an approach to balance the three R's. This approach to learning, eldering, and mentoring is intelligent enough to honor the teachings of the Ancestors, to nurture Wisdom in addition to imparting knowledge, and to Educate through Fox's 10 C's. The 10 C's are the core of the A.W.E. philosophy and process of education, and include: compassion, contemplation, and creativity. The
A.W.E. Project does for the vast subject of "learning" what Fox's Reinvention of Work did for vocation and Original Blessing did for theology. Included in the book is a dvd of the 10 C's put to 10 video raps created and performed by Professor Pitt.
"An awe-based vision of educational renewal." -- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice. | |
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