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 may click on on the title of a DM as a way to view the unique piece in its entirety. Additionally, please be aware, we are going to proceed to supply a video educating by Matthew every Monday.
November 9, 2025: Peter Thiel, Democracide & The Authoritarian Stack: The Antichrist, cont’d (MF)
Billionaire Peter Thiel is kingmaker to the present administration. His firm Palantir has taken in billions in protection and ICE contracts since 2015. He has declared that “freedom and democracy are not appropriate.” “Freedom” for Thiel means freedom from regulation, as Palantir has been utilizing AI to catapult spying to a brand new degree. And regulation, to Thiel, constitutes the very essence of the antichrist in our time. Mussolini’s definition of fascism? The wedding of presidency and business. A very scary dimension to this alliance is the “Military’s Govt Innovation Corps” the place Silicon Valley executives are being commissioned into army ranks. This feels just like the antichrist, does it not?
November 10, 2025: No Regulation: A Authorities Changing Democracy with Greed (MF)
Whereas 42 million Individuals had been about to lose their SNAP advantages, the occupant of the White Home was throwing an infinite Nice Gatsby-themed celebration at Mar-a-lago. Disgraceful. What’s a authorities with out regulation of its richest and strongest residents? It’s certainly not a authorities “of the individuals, by the individuals, and for the individuals.” Most religious traditions speak in regards to the sin of Greed or Avarice. Thomas Aquinas teaches that “the greed for acquire is aware of no restrict and tends to infinity.” Creator David Korten warns that some sort of regulation is critical for survival of the planet as we all know it. “To just accept the truth of bodily limits is to simply accept the necessity to restrict greed and acquisition in favor of financial justice and sufficiency.”
November 11, 2025: Girl Love and Her Queen (GG)
Mechthild of Magdeburg is yet one more beguine who lived within the thirteenth century, like Hadewijch and Marguerite Porete (see DMs Nov. 6 and 7). Every of those ladies is remembered as the primary girl to have written a guide within the language of her individuals. However what particularly unites them is that they consecrated their lives to God in methods which are very express and had been fairly scandalous to many. As Matthew Fox has remarked, it isn’t that the mystic ladies of the Center Ages disavowed the Augustinian doctrine of unique sin, however they reframed it. In her guide, The Flowing Mild of the Godhead, for example, Love/God calls the soul “Queen” and needs solely to embrace her. The patriarchal world managed to silence the voices of those three ladies by hiding their texts for fairly some time. Fortuitously, they’ve been rediscovered, and so they communicate volumes to a world desperately in want of affection.
November 12, 2025: Culling Flowers on a Vivid Pathway? (GG)
Students of Dante agree that the character of Matelda in Purgatorio is an individual not weighed down by unique sin. Dante composed the poem a number of many years after she died. This implies the essence of her spirituality was understood and revered. As Dante walks on the Different Facet, he encounters Matelda joyfully culling flowers from a backyard. When Dante asks about her joyful demeanor, she solutions that her smile comes from at all times considering the works of God within the universe. Are you able to get any extra by way of positiva than that? In the meantime, in Mechthild’s works, we discover a entire by way of negativa facet, which she skilled absolutely in her life. She talks about “sinking into the evening!” Each time we will, having walked via all of the darkish valleys, we will have a lifetime of gratitude, singing, and dancing. That is the message of Mechthild and Dante.
November 13, 2025: The Sacred Coronary heart (GG)
Mechthild discovered sanctuary on the Cistercian monastery of Helfta. The abbess, Gertrude of Hackeborn, welcomed her. Fortuitously Mechthild’s knowledge was acknowledged and celebrated there, and she or he grew to become a trainer to 2 younger ladies named, amazingly, Gertrude and Mechtilde! Mechtilde of Hackeborn was a terrific musician in addition to the creator of a guide known as The E-book of Particular Graces. And Gertrude of Helfta wrote a guide known as Herald of Divine Love, These two barely youthful ladies are credited with originating devotion to the Sacred Coronary heart of Jesus. Initially, the Sacred Coronary heart needed to do with how divine magnificence pervades the universe, and the way divine love retains the universe alive. Extra by way of positiva!
November 15, 2025: Billionaires Behaving Badly & Different Classes from the Epstein Story (MF)
Headlines about Epstein and Trump abound. We’re all discovering that these with concentrated wealth and energy can, for a few years, cowl up the pedophilia dedicated by a few of the richest and strongest males on the earth. These similar billionaires are amongst those that personal over 85% of the media in our nation and who’ve purchased the Supreme Court docket and 60% of the politicians in our nation. Do we actually need males like these to set the agenda for our media, for our politics and insurance policies, our faculties and youngsters, our corporations and companies, and our Supreme Court docket? Do we actually need them to make selections about battle and peace and the way forward for our planet?
Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Mild of the Godhead, translated by Lucy Menzies (Martino Publishing, Mansfield Middle, CT, 2012)
Mechtilde of Hackeborn, The E-book of Particular Grace
Gertrude of Helfta, Herald of Divine Love
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Banner picture: “Say No to Billionaire Takeover of our Democracy.” Protest sign up suburban Pennsylvania in 2025. Picture by Cynthia Greb. Used with permission.
