Earth Day 2023: Lessons of Celebrating & Exulting
Matthew Fox
April 22, 2023
Let us celebrate today, Earth Day, with joy and gusto and gratitude. Let us rejoice not at what we have made but what Earth and
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Week of 3/13-18, 2023: Joy, the Spiritual Journey & the Wisdom of Celtic Spirituality
Matthew Fox
March 19, 2023
March 13, 2023. Joy! Why We Are All HereMatthew poses the delightful questions: Did you ever consider that maybe the “Big Bang” was a Big
Joy! Why We Are All Here.
Matthew Fox
March 13, 2023
The Divine Joy. Did you ever consider that maybe the “Big Bang” was a Big Laugh? Or a Big Shout of Joy? That the Trinity could not take
Yeats on Celebration, Praise and Festivity
Matthew Fox
November 19, 2022
Speaking of festivity and celebration, I am moved by Yeats’ simple poem: We must laugh and we must sing, We are blessed by everything Everything
September 5-10: Exploring Joy, Work, Justice, and Compassion
Matthew Fox
September 11, 2022
Each Sunday, we are offering a brief summary of the meditations from the previous week, as a kind of “index” inviting you to return to
Joy + Justice = Compassion
Matthew Fox
September 10, 2022
To commit to Joy and Justice and Celebration, as Barbara Ehrenreich does, is to commit to Compassion. As Meister Eckhart tells us, “what happens to another, whether it
Barbara Ehrenreich on Joy and Celebration
Matthew Fox
September 9, 2022
Barbara Ehrenreich’s pursuit of truth was a prophetic work and a spiritual commitment. Her critique of society’s sins and falsities was the same. Her looking for alternatives was
A View on the Sacred Cosmos from Italy
Matthew Fox
September 5, 2022
Contemporary Italian philosopher and psychologist (and ex-priest) Vito Mancuso, wrote a very rich Introduction to my book Original Blessing when it was translated into Italian. In Italian the
Hildegard of Bingen on Fire & Spirit, Joy & Wisdom
Matthew Fox
February 24, 2022
Recently I was gifted with a wonderful recording of Hildegard of Bingen’s song, “O Fire of Comforting Spirit.” The singer is Jess Dandy and she had
More on Joy a la Thomas Aquinas
Matthew Fox
February 3, 2022
In spite of the struggle toward survival of the fittest, can joy reign? Aquinas offers a clear and blunt answer to this big question. He
