It is a weekly abstract of the earlier week’s Day by day Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and a few by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You may click on on the title of a DM with the intention to view the unique piece in its entirety. Additionally, please notice, we’ll proceed to supply a video instructing by Matthew every Monday.
November 3, 2025: Does America (and the Earth) Have a Billionaire Drawback? (MF)
Chuck Collins, director of the Program on Inequality and the Frequent Good on the Institute for Coverage Research, has written a ebook known as Burned By Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Energy Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet. Between 1980 and 2024, the variety of billionaires in the USA rose from 15 to greater than 800. (A billion {dollars} is one thousand million {dollars}, a billionaire is a millionaire 1,000 instances over.) Collins says we’d like “rule modifications that rewire capitalism for shared prosperity for all fairly than spoils for the few.” He calls it a “type of modern-day idolatry” to exalt billionaires, and to show over to them ever extra wealth and energy and media management and political leverage.
November 4, 2025: Good Information: Interspirituality, The Cosmic Mass, Democratizing Mysticism (MF)
A couple of months earlier than his loss of life, Pope Francis known as for a “new type” of Liturgy—types that substitute merely reciting phrases about our sins, however as an alternative have a good time our shared religious expertise. The Cosmic Mass is a gorgeous instance of this. In final week’s DM, we mirrored on a brand new ebook on Deep Ecumenism entitled Interspirituality (with a foreword by Matthew.) The truth that this ebook is showing presently, with over 120 contributors from varied world spiritual traditions, is sweet information. It’s a wholesome signal of our instances that individuals in every single place are waking up and keen to maneuver from spiritual confrontation to religious intercommunion. Additionally at problem is the democratization of mysticism—how we’re all known as to develop into our deepest selves in love with the world.
November 5, 2025: Witchcraft (GG)
In response to the newest report on Palestinian occupied territories, the Israeli ambassador to the UN publicly and vehemently accused particular UN envoy Francesca Albanese of witchcraft. She replied calmly that if she may make spells, she would cease the killings “from the river to the ocean.” Albanese, identical to Greta Thunberg, has develop into a political and public icon who’s concurrently fiery and compassionate. This scares those that have bought their souls to the satan. Those that accuse Albanese now would possible have been amongst these burning and hanging the smart girls of the previous.
November 6, 2025: Marguerite and Love (GG)
he majority of the witches’ trials and executions occurred within the late 1400’s to about 1650. However in 1310, Marguerite Porete was branded a heretic and burned on the stake. She was a pacesetter within the Beguine motion. The phrase “beguines” was utilized to girls in Northern Europe and Italy who selected to not marry nor enter a nunnery, however to stay a life consecrated to Love outdoors the boundaries of these two establishments. As you may think about, they have been by no means preferred very a lot by many of the male clergy. Marguerite taught that the soul can develop into nothing and lose itself into the nothingness that God is. In Marguerite’s expertise, from the annihilation of 1’s will, daring and sensible Love past motive emerges, which can also be God. That was an excessive amount of for her accusers, who first burned her ebook in entrance of her, after which her dwelling physique for refusing to cease her instructing and recant her views.
November 7, 2025: Hadewijch and Love (GG)
Like Marguerite Porete, Hadewijch of Brabant was a beguine, a realized girl, and wrote within the language of the individuals—in her case, Center Dutch. Like Marguerite, the middle of her writings is Love, or fairly fiery Love, which burns her in ecstasy when reached. With the present resurgence in our world of acts of cruelty, GG’s curiosity in medieval girls mystics who speak about God as love and love as God has been stoked. We’d like Love on this world, and we’d like fiery girls like Albanese, Thunberg, and the beguines.
November 8, 2025: America’s Tuesday Election: Hope on the Horizon for Democracy? (MF)
The outcomes this previous election day gave us motive for hope, as Democrats received races all through the nation. As Matthew mentioned, “Democracy occurred.” Halleluia! One man, figuring out himself as a “lifelong Republican,” feels that Republicans “have misplaced the Republicans who’re centrists….There’s nothing in MAGA for us so we’re voting for candidates who higher replicate our values.” Values. What a candy phrase to listen to in a world the place the present administration is totally value-less. Matthew wonders what the billionaires and companies who donated to Trump and the Republic campaigns are pondering now. Collectively, these corporations doled out a surprising $960 million to lobbying and political contributions through the 2024 elections alone. Perhaps their funding in probably the most corrupt administration in historical past might not have been so good in spite of everything?
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Banner picture: Creating change. “Ladies World Leaders at COP26.” Photograph by the Scottish authorities. Wikimedia Commons.
