It is a abstract of the earlier week’s every day meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF) and a few are written by his colleague, Gianluigi Gugliermetto. (GG) You possibly can click on on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Additionally, do not forget that every Monday DM continues to incorporate a video instructing by Matthew Fox. Thanks on your loyal readership.
April 13, 2026: Chaos & Evil Beneath Trump & MAGA: Classes From Hildegard (MF)
On this DM, we meditate on Hildegard of Bingen’s portray of the Antichrist and the way it so precisely displays Trump and his horrendous, foolhardy warfare in Iran. In her portray, every of the 5 animals depicted (which come from the Ebook of the Apocalypse) signify a facet of right now’s chaos and evil. The canine represents people who “chew at their very own circumstances.” The lion stands for “warlike males,” the horse for individuals who put their very own egocentric pleasure above the wants of others. The pig represents that which is unclean, and the wolf represents stealing from others. The comparability with Trump is clear: waging an unjust warfare, luxurious residing (golden bathrooms?), the fixed grifting, and many others.
April 14, 2026: Trump Performs the Antichrist Function—Time for the twenty fifth Modification? (MF)
This Sunday, Easter Sunday within the Orthodox custom, Trump attacked Pope Leo for being “woke” and “weak” and likewise printed on X an AI-generated picture of himself as Jesus. The general public outcry was nice, even amongst some conservatives.* Former MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene referred to as it “greater than blasphemy.” She additionally referred to as it “an Antichrist Spirit.” The pope used the event to remind folks that Jesus taught peace and never warfare, and the Gospel is about liberation for the poor. Is it time for the twenty fifth Modification but?
April 15, 2026: Annihilation of a Civilization? Annihilation of ALL Civilizations! (MF)
Final Tuesday, Trump declared, “A complete civilization will die tonight, by no means to be introduced again once more.” The backlash was nice, even amongst MAGA people. MTG stated: “President Trump has gone mad as he wages warfare towards Iran, a damaged marketing campaign promise.” Candace Owens stated: “It could be time to place Grandpa up in a house.” Requires the invocation of the twenty fifth Modification elevated. However there’s one other warfare that Trump is waging which doesn’t get as a lot publicity, and that’s the warfare towards Mom Earth. She is struggling. Take, as an example, this headline: “US had hottest March on document as nation confronted ‘unprecedented’ warmth.” As well as, “January by means of March interval was the driest on document for the contiguous US. So not solely was it scorching, it was document dry as effectively.”** Trump’s response? Obliterating many environmental legal guidelines which have been in place because the unique Earth Day in 1970.
April 16, 2026: Diary from the Italian Countryside – half 3 (GG)
Gianluigi presently lives in a paradise which is greening gloriously with the arrival of spring. He experiences: The hills are so extremely inexperienced! It’s a significant, shouting, joyful inexperienced that solely the Hildegardian phrase viriditas (“verdancy”) can describe. Stated she: “The grasses snigger with the enjoyment of life! ” When her working relationship with Emperor Frederick Barbarossa turned bitter because of his domineering nature, she wrote him heated letters, saying: Whenever you lack the verdancy of justice, your soul is dry, completely with out tender goodness, completely with out illuminating advantage. GG displays on the comparisons of Hildegard’s time with ours right now. He tells us that whereas he can’t isolate himself “from the information of lunacy, hate, and destruction,” he’s grateful to “breathe in as a lot viriditas as doable.”
April 17, 2026: Dancing as a Method of Life – half 1 (GG)
Lately, GG rediscovered an previous guide titled Danser sa vie (Dancing One’s Life). The primary chapter speaks of the spirituality of dance. Right here, as an example, is one sentence from that chapter: To bop means primarily to ascertain an lively relation between the human and nature, it’s turning into a part of the cosmic motion…. In Creation Spirituality, dance is discovered each within the through positiva and the through transformativa. At the start, in through positiva, dance provides to the individual an actual sense of bodily id; on the finish, in through transformativa, dance items the individual a concrete sense of neighborhood. GG means that the latter type of dancing could be free type or people dance. It’s in itself a complete ritual, symbolizing and making actual in that very second the unity of the human household, in addition to the cosmic order.
April 18, 2026: Dancing as a Method of Life – half 2 (GG)
Within the first chapter of his Danser sa vie, Roger Garaudy traces a spirituality of dance which is a spirituality of life. He quotes Ananda Coomaraswamy: Inside this expression of the natural unity of human beings and nature, India fabricated from Shiva’s dance the clearest picture of God’s exercise… Our God — an historic sacred Indian hymn spells out — is a dancing God…. Shiva’s dance is cosmic because it expresses the 5 divine actions with relation to the universe: creation, conservation, destruction, rebirth (reincarnation), and supreme freedom. Garaudy additionally writes that the “place” of the dance, the middle of the universe, is the center of every human being. Dance eroticizes our complete relationship with the world and (provides) a method to our physique’s actions and our life, awakening in us the will that our entire being categorical itself by expressing the world.
*Catherine Bouris and Ewan Palmer, “Even MAGA Recoils at Trump Cosplaying as Christ in Deranged Publish,” The Day by day Beast, April 13, 2026
**Related Press, “US had hottest March on document as nation confronted ‘unprecedented’ warmth,” The Guardian, April 9, 2026.
Banner picture: Daisies in a sunlit area. Photograph by Daiga Ellaby on Unsplash. “I’ve set earlier than you life and loss of life… Subsequently select life, that each thou and thy seed could reside.” (Deuteronomy 30:19)
Associated Readings by Matthew Fox
Trump and the MAGA Motion as Antichrist.
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul & Society.
Unique Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth.
Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen
Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox, Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient for a New Era.
Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jennifer Listug, Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Imaginative and prescient of Love and Motion
Charles Burack, ed., Matthew Fox: Important Writings in Creation Spirituality.
Creativity: The place the Divine and Human Meet
WHEE! We, wee All of the Method Residence: A Information to Sensual Prophetic Spirituality
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