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Week of 12/23-28/2024:
The Coming of the Light
& Spiritual Warriors 12/29/2024 |
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December 23, 2024: Is there One Advent—or Several?
The convergence of the winter solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa is a potent time of year. It’s a time when we celebrate the coming of the Light. Part of the mystery of
existence is the play between the Via Positiva and the Via Negativa, the light and the darkness in life. Both contribute to wisdom. Poet Rainer Maria Rilke underwent a profoundly painful childhood, locked in the attic frequently by his mother for long periods of time. From it all he learned something of both pain and praise. Oh, tell us, poet, what do you do? I praise. But the deadly and the violent days, how do you undergo them, take them in? I
praise…. Light within a field of darkness. The winding arms of the spiral galaxy called NGC 3982 are lined with pink star-forming regions of glowing hydrogen, newborn blue star clusters, obscuring dust lanes that provide the raw material for future generations of stars. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) |
December 24, 2024: Christmas Eve 2024
When we are in the midst of feeling loss and grief, it can, paradoxically, bring a greater feeling of the preciousness of life. In the midst of this darkness, we remember the coming of the Christ about 2020
years ago and we call that remembrance Christmas. The Great Mystery behind the vast consciousness of the cosmos chose to visit Earth and become human. There lies the wonder of Christmas. The Mystery beyond all names is part of a continuous creation and continuous incarnation all around us and in us, as Père Chenu taught. We are all reborn on Christmas morning, when Wisdom "leapt down from her heavenly throne" and entered history, with all its
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December 25, 2024: Christmas 2024: Our Birth as Immortal Diamonds & Original Blessings
Here is one of Matthew’s favorite passages in all of scripture: When peaceful silence lay over all,
and night had run the half of her swift course, down from the heavens, from the royal throne, leapt your all-powerful Word. Into the heart of a doomed land the stern warrior leapt….He touched the sky, yet trod the earth. (Wis 18.14-16) Christ was a model and teacher of what it means to be an image of God. The birth of the Cosmic Christ among us is celebrated by poet Gerard Manley Hopkins this way: In a flash, at a trumpet crash/I am all at once what Christ is,
since he was what I am, and/This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,/Is immortal diamond. We are all reborn as other Christs on this Christmas Day—and every day. That is the Promise of Christmas, to recover how we are all immortal diamonds. December 26, 2024: Christmas 2024: Jesus’ Prayer Sustaining Stern Warriors
The reading from the Book of Wisdom for Christmas Midnight Mass speaks of the arrival of Christ as the arrival of a “stern warrior” who
leapt into a “doomed land.” A stern warrior who “touched the sky, yet trod the earth,” one who brings heaven and earth together. The traditional Lord's prayer is translated from Jesus' Aramaic by Neil Douglas Klotz as follows: O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos, you create all that moves in light…Create your reign of unity now—through our fiery hearts and willing hands...
Help us love beyond our ideals and sprout acts of compassion for all creatures.… Let your heart’s fervent desire unite heaven and earth through our harmony. December 27, 2024: Lily Yeh’s Fiery Heart and Willing Hands—and Ours
In this Christmas season, it’s good to bring alive in ourselves the mystic and the spiritual warrior. Jesus surely embodied both for us. Yesterday we reflected on a translation of the Our Father from the original Aramaic, part of which was: Create your reign of unity now—through our fiery hearts
and willing hands. If we look around us for examples, artist Lily Yeh is such a person. Lily recently gave a TED talk in which she speaks about how beauty saves us, especially in the hard times. Lily goes to some of the most
"broken" places and first helps children to create and embrace beauty. This, in turn, influences the adults. Healing and miracles result. |
Lily
Yeh poses with volunteer artists, leaders of the Balata Women's Center, students of the Balata Girls’ School, and other participants in front of the "Palestinian Tree of Life" they painted at the Balata Refugee Camp in Palestine. Photo by Theresa Yeh, from BarefootArtists.org |
December 28, 2024: Social Media as Heroin? Thom Hartmann on Today’s Politics of Rage
As we look for spiritual warriors to inspire us, another is Thom Hartmann. He is a a journalist and
writer who uses his “fiery heart and willing hands” to question that which doesn't work in our politics and culture. Case in point: He recently wrote an article called “Is Social Media This Generation’s Heroin?” He says:
If you could invent a drug that would cause people to be fearful—and thus stimulate the rage that comes from fear—you could have incredible control over a population if you could simply tell them where and against whom to direct that fear-induced rage. Social media propagates this fear and rage. (If you want to assess your level of addiction to social media, click HERE.) |
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The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance
In what may be considered the most comprehensive outline of the Christian
paradigm shift of our Age, Matthew Fox eloquently foreshadows the manner in which the spirit of Christ resurrects in terms of the return to an earth-based mysticism, the expression of creativity, mystical sexuality, the respect due the young, the rebirth of effective forms of worship—all of these mirroring the ongoing blessings of Mother Earth and the recovery of Eros, the feminine aspect of the Divine.
“The eighth
wonder of the world…convincing proof that our Western religious tradition does indeed have the depth of imagination to reinvent its faith.” — Brian Swimme, author of The Universe Story and Journey of the Universe.
“This book is a classic.” Thomas Berry, author of The Great Work and The Dream of the Earth. |
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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 |
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Creativity: Where the Divine and Human Meet
Because creativity is the key to both our genius and beauty as a species but also to our capacity for evil, we need to teach creativity and to teach ways of steering this God-like power in
directions that promote love of life (biophilia) and not love of death (necrophilia). Pushing well beyond the bounds of conventional Christian doctrine, Fox’s focus on creativity attempts nothing less than to shape a new ethic.
“Matt Fox is a pilgrim who seeks a path into the church of tomorrow. Countless numbers will be happy to follow his lead.” –Bishop John Shelby Spong, author, Rescuing
the Bible from Fundamentalism, Living in Sin |
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Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election Matthew Fox tells us that he had always shied away from using the
term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to spread control and fear. However, given today’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables in this book employing the archetype for the cause of justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity. For immediate access to Trump
& The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, order the e-book with 10 full-color prints from Amazon HERE. To get a print-on-demand paperback copy with black & white images, order from Amazon HERE or IUniverse HERE. To receive a limited-edition, full-color paperback copy, order from MatthewFox.org HERE. Order the audiobook HERE for immediate download. |
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The Return of Father Sky: A Cosmic Mystery for Kids of All Ages
The second book in the Father Fox’s Fantastical Fables series, The Return of Father Sky helps boys and girls to celebrate a new relationship with the masculine by way of Father
Sky, whose return excites joy and wonder and possibility that enlarge the soul to welcome others and all creation. Written in a rhyming Dr. Seuss-like style, this full-color, beautifully illustrated book, written by world- renowned theologian Matthew Fox weaves together modern science and classic spirituality in a whimsical, entertaining format to illustrate important truths to readers aged 4 and up. With artwork curated from illustrators around the world, this book expresses the joy and wonder
of all peoples and cultures, planting seeds of respect, cooperation and hope to work together for the healing of our planet. |
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