March 17, 2025: St. Patrick’s Day 2025: Items From the Celtic Custom
On this time of darkness, Celtic spirituality is usually a balm to the soul. Matthew explores two nice books by Scottish theologian John Philip Newell: Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul and The Nice Search. Celtic spirituality doesn’t start with unique sin or put down ladies or denigrate sexuality; it’s all in regards to the sacredness of nature. This “safety prayer,” attributed to St. Patrick, clearly celebrates each the Earth and the cosmos. I bind unto myself in the present day the sturdy title of the Trinity. I bind unto myself for ever Christ’s Incarnation. I bind unto myself this present day the love of angels and of saints. I bind to myself in the present day the vitality of stars, the brilliance of solar, the whiteness of moon, the splendor of fireplace, the flashing of lightning, the depth of seas, the fecundity of earth, the solidity of rocks.*
March 18, 2025: Staying Sturdy: The “I Am” Poems of Eire & the Gospels
One other dimension to Celtic spirituality is the “I’m” poems, prayers that after once more start with the universe and have a good time the awe, marvel and grandeur of the cosmos and our place in it. The cosmic Christ is in all places in these historic prayers. Celtic scholar John O’Donohue calls the next poem “the primary poem ever composed in Eire.” Listed below are some excerpts: I’m the wind which breathes upon the ocean, I’m the wave of the ocean, I’m the murmur of the billows…I’m a world of data, I’m the purpose of the lance of battle, I’m the God who created the fireplace within the head. Within the Biblical custom, God is the good “I’m.” Christ additionally declares “I’m the nice shepherd,” “I’m the sunshine,” “I’m the door,” and so forth. This “I’m” language might be discovered around the globe.
March 19, 2025: The Unhealthy Information Continues and The Good Information Stirs
The Unhealthy Information continues. Continuous it appears. Every day brings an onslaught towards something resembling wholesome democracy. Trump has rushed to implement as a lot of Challenge 2025 as he presumably can. The work of the antichrist archetype is in our midst, as Matthew warned in his e-book, Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ. Christofascism and Christian nationalism invoke Christ’s title to kill democracy as we all know it in America. The Good Information? Resistance is going on within the streets, congressional townhalls, in (some) of the media and elements of congress and in courtrooms. Ethical outrage and religious warriorhood is stirring in residents waking up to what’s afoot. Fires are being lit within the hearts and minds of many.
March 20, 2025: Extra “I AM” Prayers from the East and from Hildegard & Julian
We proceed to discover the “I’m” prayers. They’re prevalent within the East in addition to the West. Within the Bhagavad Gita, we learn the next: I’m the Father and Mom of the world. In historic days, I established it. I’m what wants be recognized, what purifies. Your manner and purpose, upholder, pal, witness, dwelling, refuge, pal. The world’s origin, continuance and dissolution, abiding essence, seed. I’m the complete world. I’m deathlessness and demise. I’m the complete world.… In the meantime, Hildegard says about God: I’m the rain coming from the dew that causes the grasses to giggle with the enjoyment of life. I name forth tears, the aroma of holy work. I’m the craving for good. And Julian of Norwich mentioned: Our Lord Jesus oftentimes mentioned: ‘This I’m. This I’m. I’m what you’re keen on. I’m what you take pleasure in. I’m what you serve. I’m what you lengthy for. I’m what you want. I’m what you propose. I’m all that’s.‘
March 21, 2025: “I Am” Prayers From Aboriginal Poets of Australia
Persevering with our exploration of “I’m” prayers from around the globe, we honor this poem from Hyllus Maris, an aboriginal girl from Australia: I’m a baby of the Dreamtime Folks/ A part of the Land, just like the gnarled gumtree/ I’m the river, softly singing/ Chanting our songs on my option to the ocean…I’m the snow, the wind and the falling rain/I’m a part of the rocks and the crimson desert earth/
Pink because the blood that flows in my veins…. And aboriginal poet Kevin Gilbert gives this poem known as “Tree.” I’m the tree/the lean laborious hungry land/the crow and eagle/solar and moon and sea/I’m the sacred clay/which varieties the bottom/the grasses vines and man/I’m all issues created…. Creation Spirituality abounds in these poems.
March 22, 2025: Trumpet Sounds, 5 Alarm Shouts, of What Is Taking place NOW within the U.S.
As issues proceed to spiral uncontrolled within the U.S., Alexander Panetta of CBS Information writes this alarming headline: “U.S. might lose democracy standing, says international watchdog.” Staffan Lindberg, head of the Forms of Democracy undertaking, warns: “If it continues like this, democracy [in the US] won’t final one other six months.”** In the meantime, Jamelle Boules writes: “Trump Has Gone from Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional.”*** And Thom Hartmann writes: “Welcome to Trump’s America: The place Immigrants Vanish, Courts are Ignored and No One is Secure.”**** What begins with asylum seekers and immigrants can tomorrow be political opponents, journalists or anybody who criticizes the dictator. Hartmann says: The Republican Get together, already complicit in numerous abuses of energy, should be compelled to confront this atrocity. Each Republican within the Home and Senate who nonetheless believes within the Structure—if any stay—should stand up and act….
*Newell’s literal translation of the traditional Irish textual content attributed to St. Patrick. See John Philip Newell, Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Knowledge For Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Therapeutic the World, pp. 72-78.
**Alexander Panetta, “U.S. might lose democracy standing, says international watchdog.” CBC Information, March 18, 2025.
*** Jamelle Bouie, “Trump Has Gone From Unconstitutional to Anti-Constitutional.” New York Occasions, March 19, 2025.
****Thom Hartmann, “Welcome to Trump’s America: The place Immigrants Vanish, Courts Are Ignored, and No One Is Secure.” The Hartmann Report, March 18, 2025.
Banner picture: Coastal Wales. “I bind to…the depth of seas, the fecundity of earth, the solidity of rocks.” Photograph by Cynthia Greb. Used with permission.
Christian Mystics: 365 Readings & Meditations
As Matthew Fox notes, when an ageing Albert Einstein was requested if he had any regrets, he replied, “I want I had learn extra of the mystics earlier in my life.” The 365 writings in Christian Mystics symbolize a wide-ranging sampling of those readings for modern-day seekers of all faiths — or no religion. The visionaries quoted vary from Julian of Norwich to Martin Luther King, Jr., from Thomas Merton to Dorothee Soelle and Thomas Berry.
“Our world is in disaster, and we’d like highway maps that may floor us in knowledge, encourage us to motion, and assist us collect our abilities in service of compassion and justice. This revolutionary e-book does simply that. Matthew Fox takes among the most profound religious teachings of the West and interprets them into sensible each day mediations. Examine and apply these teachings. Take what’s on this e-book and train it to the youth as a result of the brand new technology can not afford to endure the spirit and moral illiteracy of the previous.” — Adam Bucko, religious activist and co-founder of the Reciprocity Basis for Homeless Youth.
Authentic Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a complete new route for Christianity—a route that’s the truth is very historic and really grounded in Jewish considering (the truth that Jesus was a Jew is usually uncared for by Christian theology): the 4 Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an prolonged and deeply developed manner.
“Authentic Blessing makes out there to the Christian world and to the human neighborhood a radical treatment for all darkish and derogatory views of the pure world wherever these might have originated.” –Thomas Berry, writer, The Dream of the Earth; The Nice Work; co-author, The Universe Story
One River, Many Wells: Knowledge Springing from World Faiths
Matthew Fox calls on all of the world traditions for his or her knowledge and their inspiration in a piece that’s way over a listing of theological place papers however a brand new option to pray—to meditate in a worldwide religious context on the knowledge all our traditions share. Fox chooses 18 themes which are foundational to any spirituality and demonstrates how all of the world religious traditions provide knowledge about every.“Studying One River, Many Wells is like coming into the wealthy silence of a masterfully directed retreat. As you learn this textual content, you mirror, you pray, you embrace Divinity. Actually no phrases can totally specific my respect and awe for this magnificent contribution to modern spirituality.” –Caroline Myss, writer of Anatomy of the Spirit
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had at all times shied away from utilizing the time period “Anti-Christ” as a result of it was so typically used to unfold management and concern. Nonetheless, given in the present day’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this e-book using the archetype for the reason for justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a second, for inspecting the archetype of the Antichrist, it’s now…Learn this e-book with an open thoughts. Good and evil are actual forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, writer of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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