
Sadness & Acedia: Julian, Hildegard, Aquinas on the Opposites of Joy
One way to grasp a spiritual concept is to consider its opposite first. What constitutes the opposite of joy? Sadness is an opposite of joy
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One way to grasp a spiritual concept is to consider its opposite first. What constitutes the opposite of joy? Sadness is an opposite of joy
November 28, 2022. On Grief Work, Youth Work, and Adam Bucko’s New Book.In this meditation, in the wake of the shootings at the Colorado gay
A return to the dark is also a return to our origins. Most of us were conceived in the dark, lived our first nine months in
We have seemingly interrupted our meditations on Praise to reflect on the heart-breaking events of murder at the gay Club in Colorado Springs and other colleges this
November 21, 2022. Thomas Berry’s Invitation to Praise the Earth.In this meditation we are invited to remember to praise, not only this good Earth, but
We have been meditating on the gift that our Earth and Air and human existence is, a 13.8 billion year gift. Now, closer to home, we
Each Sunday, from now on, we will offer a brief summary of the meditations from the previous week. This will be a kind of “index”
Rainer Maria Rilke, whom Robert Bly used to call “the greatest poet of the last 500 years,” gives us useful and profound advice for living
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