It is a abstract of the earlier week’s every day meditations. Father Adam Bucko (AB) is visitor author this week for Friday and Saturday. You’ll be able to click on on any title to view the DM in its entirety. Additionally, do not forget that every Monday DM continues to supply a video instructing by Matthew Fox. Thanks on your loyal readership.
February 16, 2026: Saints Amongst Us: Encouraging and Good Information (MF)
Matthew proposes that Time Journal make its “individual of the 12 months” award early, and provides it to the folks of Minneapolis who march and assist their fellow residents throughout this horrific invasion of their metropolis by ICE henchmen (and ladies). However lo and behold! There may be now a motion underfoot by the editors of The Nation to provide a Nobel Peace Prize to the town of Minneapolis and its folks.* One other bit of fine information is the completion of the Buddhist monks’ 108-day, 2300-mile strolling pilgrimage for Peace that ended on Thursday in Washington D.C. Within the phrases of the Venerable Ratanaguna: That is an meeting made up of individuals of all races and cultures with out distinctions of religion or faith. Individuals from all walks of life coming collectively right here within the spirit of unity, love, empathy, and understanding.**
February 17, 2025: Joel Primack: The Passing of a Particular Man and Scientist (MF)
Lately, Matthew attended a Celebration of Life for physicist and cosmologist Joel Primack. He and his spouse, Nancy Abrams, co-authored two crucial books, The View From the Heart of the Universe and The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology May Remodel the World. Through the celebration, his assist of girls scientists and college students was recalled, and his main function and braveness in co-founding the Union of Involved Scientists which resisted the Vietnam Battle.*** One of many issues Matthew shared in his remarks was the next citation from Aquinas: “Probably the most glorious factor within the universe isn’t the human. Probably the most glorious factor within the universe is the universe itself, and all beings are right here to serve the universe.”
February 18, 2025: Joel Primack Eulogy, continued (MF)
We proceed with extra excerpts from Matthew’s eulogy of Joel Primack. Geologian Thomas Berry used to say, “We’ll recuperate our sense of marvel and our sense of the sacred provided that we admire the universe past ourselves as a revelatory expertise of that numinous presence whence all issues come into being. Certainly, the universe is the first sacred actuality.…” Of their e-book on cosmology and society, Joel and Nancy instruct us to “assume cosmically, however act globally.” They name for a “purified faith” that doesn’t dwell up to now however honors the that means of the universe and our particular place in it. Joel was humble, near the earth (humus), in addition to near the celebrities….Joel taught us about our kinship to the celebrities and our origins and sacred relationship to Father Sky, Mom Earth and each other. What a rare man!
February 19, 2026: Not Solely Epstein, However MAGA’s EPA Is Now Victimizing Youngsters (MF)
The Epstein recordsdata reveal that billionaires and different highly effective males the world over have been concerned in abusing over 1200 ladies and kids. UN consultants say we’re speaking a few scale that quantities to crimes in opposition to humanity.**** In the meantime, there are additionally efforts to destroy and dismantle legal guidelines and laws handed to defend Mom Earth from toxic air, soil, and waters. That is one other type of assault which results our youngsters, in addition to future generations. A part of the technique of Venture 2025 has been to so flood the information with a number of unhealthy headlines day by day in order that chaos turns into the secret. The destiny of Mom Earth is usually uncared for by the media who relegate it to the inside pages when it deserves to be middle stage. One can’t think about a extra thorough rejection of Pope Francis’s name for “look after our frequent house” in his groundbreaking encyclical on the surroundings, “Laudato Sí.”
February 20, 2026: Knowledge from Adam Bucko: The Picture of God as Defiant Language (AB)
(Matthew welcomes visitor author Fr. Adam Bucko for immediately’s and tomorrow’s DM. He’s the writer of Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Information: Classes in Engaged Contemplation.) Adam tells us that he was co-facilitating a retreat for homeless youth in upstate New York. He says: A younger lady named Ebony approached me….Painful issues from her previous have been starting to floor….Seeing her ache…I inspired her to go for a stroll across the chapel and discover three objects in nature that represented a few of what she was feeling.…Certainly one of Ebony’s objects was a flower that had not but bloomed. .I instructed that Ebony take her three objects into the chapel and spend a while in prayer and meditation.…A while later, I observed her from a distance working towards me with a giant smile…. (She mentioned) “I used to be holding (the blossom) in my palms whereas praying with my eyes closed, and I felt one thing. I felt like all these struggles I used to be feeling however couldn’t specific in phrases simply dissolved, and there was this sense of reduction and peace. After I opened my eyes, I used to be shocked. The flower I had been holding opened and bloomed whereas I used to be praying.”
February 21, 2026: Adam Bucko on Holiness & The Picture & Likeness of God, continued (AB)
(By Father Adam Bucko.) Howard Thurman understood each how fragile and the way highly effective is the reality that the human being is made in God’s picture and likeness. Thurman wrote and taught throughout a time of segregation and racial terror. He knew that when the world tries to outline you as lower than human, you will need to return repeatedly to that inward altar, the place your dignity is anchored in God and never within the approval of the highly effective. Adam quotes Matthew: We see such braveness and holiness enjoying out within the streets of Minneapolis as of late by peculiar residents, at the least two of whom have been murdered and martyred by ICE, which is our authorities at work. Saints act on their ethical outrage. Says Adam: Holiness isn’t some sort of summary perfection. It’s conscience made public. It’s defiant language.
* The Editors, “Assist Minneapolis Get a Nobel Peace Prize,” The Nation, February 12, 2026.
** Meghan Cook dinner, “Buddhist monks walked 108 days straight from Texas to DC in a stroll for Peace,” MSN, February 13, 2026.
***Kenneth Chang, “Joel Primack, Physicist Who Helped Clarify the Cosmos, Dies at 80” New York Occasions, January 17, 2026
****”Epstein recordsdata counsel acts which will quantity to crimes in opposition to humanity, say UN consultants” Reuters, on The Guardian, February 17, 2026
Banner picture: “Shield what you Love.” Signal at a protest in suburban Pennsylvania. Photograph by Cynthia Greb is used with permission.
Associated Readings by Matthew Fox
The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Knowledge for Onerous Occasions
Order of the Sacred Earth: An Intergenerational Imaginative and prescient of Love and Motion, by Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson, and Jennifer Listug
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth
Occupy Spirituality: A Radical Imaginative and prescient for a New Technology, by Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox
One River, Many Wells: Knowledge Springing from International Faiths
Creativity: The place the Divine and the Human Meet
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