This can be a weekly abstract of the earlier week’s Each day Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and a few by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You’ll be able to click on on the title of a DM in an effort to view the unique piece in its entirety. Additionally, please be aware, we are going to proceed to supply a video instructing by Matthew every Monday.
November 17, 2025: Aquinas and Korten on Limiting Institutionalized Greed (MF)
Greed is rampant proper now. Prior to now 42 years, 800 individuals have joined the ranks of billionaires, and shortly we could have our first ever trillionaire. Our society is so rigged in favor of the super-rich. They’ve the facility and infrequently make the legal guidelines. In the meantime, the massive, dangerous price range invoice gutted healthcare and meals help for the plenty. David Korten compares our present financial system of limitless development to a most cancers. “Our financial philosophy based mostly on fixed development is a form of most cancers that appears to parallel the rise of bodily most cancers in our time…. Each are killers.” In the meantime, maybe one of the best ways to counteract the institutionalized greed of right now’s America is by demanding the overturn of Supreme Courtroom’s Citizens United choice (2010).
November 18, 2025: Aeesha Clottey: A Buddy, Co-Employee, Champion for Love & Justice (MF)
Many lovely souls have handed on this previous 12 months, and Aeesha Clottey is one other. She was the youngest in an African American household of 12 kids who grew up in Louisiana throughout the pre-Civil Rights period of deep segregation. All 12 went to varsity! Aeesha was on the board of the College of Creation Spirituality and was a fierce champion of our Cosmic Mass and supporter of our YELLAWE program for inside metropolis youngsters. Aeesha and her husband Kokomon wrote two books collectively: Coloration Principle: Race is a Highly effective Phantasm and Everlasting Quest for Happiness. In addition they directed therapeutic packages, together with: Conscious Drumming Circles, Racial Therapeutic Circles, The Good Neighbor Mission, and Unleashing the Human Spirit Retreats. Aeesha was at all times fascinated by methods to serve the youthful era.
November 19, 2025: Extra on The Holy Life Journey of Aeesha Clottey (MF)
Matthew was amongst about six individuals invited to talk at Aeesha’s Celebration of Life Ceremony. This included a few of her surviving siblings in addition to Dr. Dianne Cirincione Jampolsky, director of the Worldwide Attitudinal Therapeutic Middle, who knew Aeesha very properly. Dianne spoke of the worldwide impression of Aeesha and Kokomon’s work by means of the Attitudinal Therapeutic Connection’s worldwide outreach. She named at the least 15 international locations the place Aeesha’s work is now identified, together with China, Vietnam, Mexico, Japan, Italy, and past. However they have been additionally a “energy couple” for good and therapeutic nearer to dwelling, in Oakland. Aeesha’s massive, radiant smile uplifted everybody who noticed it, and got here from a deep place of Pleasure and Function that energized her life.
November 20, 2025: November: Disappointment and Its Treatments (GG)
Together with all the wonder that November brings—the cool, crisp days, the colourful foliage, the crackling fires—there’s additionally, for a few of us, the despair that accompanies Seasonal Affective Dysfunction, or SAD. Hildegard of Bingen knew concerning the imbalances that may come up with November. When the soul of the particular person feels one thing dangerous to herself or her physique, her coronary heart, liver and blood vessels contract. Consequently, the hurt rises like a cloud that overshadows the guts, and the particular person turns into unhappy. For the onset of the chilly season, Hildegard suggests a weight loss program with heat meals, comparable to soups. She additionally suggests consuming chestnuts and consuming fennel tea, accompanied with the correct of spices—these which dry the organs of the physique, fairly than producing an extreme quantity of fluids.
November 21, 2025: Dwelling in Hell, Purgatory, or Heaven (GG)
Gianluigi needs us to know that in yesterday’s DM, he didn’t intend within the least to trivialize psychological ache, or to recommend that SAD can merely be cured via weight loss program. As an alternative he needs to point out how our psychological and bodily well being are inextricably linked. To speak about religious well being, let’s discuss with Mechthild of Magdeburg. One of many chapters of her ebook* is titled: How our house is now in Heaven, now in Purgatory, now in Hell. Being in purgatory occurs once we make errors and we are able to regain the standing that we misplaced via purgation or cleaning. Being in hell normally means there isn’t a hope. But Mechthild explicitly says that God’s compassion follows sinners there, in order that they’re there right now, however maybe tomorrow within the firm of angels. However what is particularly fascinating is that Mechthild claims that we’re already residing in these three states, right here on this life, and we transfer from one to a different. A very powerful sentence in your complete chapter is that this: Thus our dwelling could also be in or out of heaven, in purgatory or in unblessed hell, with whichever place we voluntarily affiliate ourselves. It appears Mechthild’s complete message is targeted on the opportunity of residing a blessed life not simply within the afterlife, however right here on this very physique of ours.
November 22, 2025: Nothing Can Forestall a Lady from Loving (GG)
Whereas Mechthild of Magdeburg would possibly properly have influenced Dante regarding the imaginary form of Purgatory (see DM Nov. 21), one other lady is remembered as the best “professional” of Purgatory itself. Her title is Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510). Catherine got here from wealth and was married to a nobleman, however riches didn’t ease her troubled thoughts. Someday, she noticed blood masking all 4 partitions of her bed room. She in all probability thought she was going mad. She locked herself in for days. When she emerged, she was a relaxed, balanced, and safe particular person. She had determined that the blood on her partitions was that of Jesus, washing her clear from all her sins. She promptly left each palace and husband in an effort to dedicate the remainder of her life to serving the sick and the poor, performing even probably the most humble companies.
* Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Gentle of the Godhead, translated by Lucy Menzies (Martino Publishing, Mansfield Middle, CT, 2012)
Banner Picture: One other treatment for Seasonal Affective Dysfunction (aka SAD) is to hold mini-lights inside your home, and don’t take them down after Christmas. Hold them up all 12 months spherical, turning them on every time a siege of the SADs begins. An enormous image window that displays them, will enlarge the impact. Photograph by media crew member Rosanna Tufts; used with permission.
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Christian Mystics: 365 Readings & Meditations.
Julian of Norwich: Knowledge in a Time of Pandemic–and Past.
Meditations with Julian of Norwich.
Authentic Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society.
