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Week of 11/24-29/2025:
Resistance, Wholeness & 3I/Atlas By the Daily Meditation Team 11/30/2025 |
This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You can click on the title of a DM in order to view the original piece in its entirety. Also, please note, we will continue to offer a video teaching by Matthew each Monday. |
November 24, 2025: Resistance Takes Many Forms (MF)
There are many forms of resisting the authoritarian regime of
the current administration. Here are a few: 1) A recent headline: “The Pope stepped up his criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.”* It appears that about 9 out of 10 persons rounded up in the anti-migrant drive are Catholics from Latin America. 2) The American Catholic Bishops put out a rare special message, approved 216 to 5: “We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people.” 3) The most recent “No Kings” protests numbered 7 million. (Some say much higher.) 4)
A documentary on the American Revolution aired this week on PBS—even though it was recently stripped of all federal support. |
November 25, 2025: Our Holy Ancestors: Resistance Takes Many Forms, Part II (MF)
Another way to resist evil in the world is to celebrate the Good and the Holy. John Nava is an artist who creates tapestries. The University of San Diego invited him to create 52 tapestries for “Holy People for Our Times.” Even reading the names is inspiring. He featured people such as the Dalai Lama, Pope Francis, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, Sr. Dorothy Stang, Rabbi Heschel, Gandhi, Oscar Romero, C.S. Lewis, etc. Some of their words of wisdom? Prayer is
not a substitute for action; rather it is a preparation for it. (Rabbi Heschel); Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks love…. (Edith Stein); We must live simply so that others may simply live. (Not a quotation by Sr. Dorothy, but words that she lived by.) John Nava’s tapestry for the East Wall of the University of San Diego depicts C.S. Lewis,
John Henry Newman, Dorothy Mae Stang, Flannery O’Connor, Nguyen Van Thuan, and
Rumi.
Photo from Lighting the Way Forward: Holy People For Our Times: Tapestries by John Nava.
Reprinted with permission
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November 26, 2025: Wholeness (part one) (GG)
St. Augustine is responsible for putting forth the doctrine of original sin.
This created in people a belief that I am essentially faulty, but I must become perfect, which is a perfect recipe for neurosis. Matthew Fox, a critic of the concept of original sin, espoused instead the concept of Original Blessing. Through the years, Gianluigi has met many people familiar with Matthew’s theology. Virtually all of them felt relief and joy in understanding that they weren’t carrying with them some unearned blemish from the time of their birth. GG believes that
psychological health and spiritual health are deeply connected. The spiritual path is a search for wholeness. And Matthew has helped many people to feel more whole, thanks to the concept of Original Blessing. November 27, 2025: Wholeness (part two) (GG)
The archetype of wholeness has a long history. It appears, for example, in the Pauline letters under the name of pleroma, where it refers to the Cosmic Christ — or God’s Wisdom — holding the
universe together. The archetype of wholeness can also appear in our social interactions, but GG warns against projecting it onto our families and societies. This is a case in which the archetype can be destructive rather than healing. Thanksgiving can be an occasion for inner work, observing one's projections, being able to own them and withdraw them. November 28, 2025: Wholeness (part three) (GG)
GG believes that wholeness, not to be mistaken
for moral perfection, is available to everyone as long as they put forth real effort. Mechthild of Magdeburg was no stranger to the harshness of life, yet she lived as somebody not weighed down by sin in any way. Catherine of Genoa believed in the purifying qualities of Christ’s blood, but she was also utterly convinced that no (male) authorities, and perhaps not even celestial ones, could prevent her from becoming truly and completely herself. The Creation Spirituality critique of the doctrine
of original sin is solid. The challenge we face today is that of bringing to the fore the archetype of wholeness as a solution to the narcissism which is often on full display in our society. Wholeness: connecting with All That Is. Photo by Oluremi Adebayo on Pexels. November 29, 2023: 3I/Atlas: A Visit From a Far-Distant Civilization? (MF)
Matthew finds it extremely exciting that the largest of all comets ever sighted in our solar system might not be a comet at all, but an artifact created by a civilization billions of years ago that may well be currently extinct. It is, he says, certainly worthy of contemplation. The possibility that intelligence far more advanced than ours
exists elsewhere in the universe (or did in the past) is an opportunity for deep gratitude and awe. Can this event (and the possibility of making contact) wake us up to what matters (i.e., connection) rather than the banal folly of war and hatred against our own kin? Can it bring us together as a species? Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Captured From Every Angle By NASA” Scott
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