Supplications
Gianluigi Gugliermetto
August 29, 2025
Last week on August 22 — which for Roman Catholics is the feast of Mary Queen of Peace — Pope Leo presided over a solemn
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Aquinas on the Marriage of Imagination & Our Prophetic Vocation
Matthew Fox
March 27, 2024
In recent daily meditations, we have been considering the immense role that the Via Creativa plays in Thomas Aquinas’s theology. Being an “image of God” is
More Feminism and Deep Ecumenism and Science from Aquinas
Matthew Fox
March 21, 2024
Further evidence of the proto-feminism of Thomas Aquinas includes his reminding his readers on several occasions that the word “Spirit” in Hebrew is feminine (ruah).
Meister Eckhart’s “Rapid River that Divinizes Us”
Matthew Fox
February 21, 2024
We ended yesterday’s DM about Joy, Courage and Generosity as signs of holiness with reference to Meister Eckhart’s amazing sermon on “The Holy Spirit, Like
Week of 11/13-18/2023: Coming Together in Compassion for Our Common Survival
Matthew Fox
November 19, 2023
November 13, 2023: A Big Lesson from Iceland on Moving Beyond WarMatthew’s brother is married to an Icelandic artist. As the entire town of Grindavik
The Mystics on Justice, the Holy Spirit, & Compassion
Matthew Fox
November 18, 2023
In the prophetic tradition of Israel, justice and compassion go together. “Compassion means justice,” Eckhart reminds us. Eckhart is not alone in connecting compassion and justice. Mechtild
God, the Holy Spirit, as Fire & Compassion
Matthew Fox
March 27, 2023
The Holy Spirit is often depicted by the mystics as a kind of fire. Thus Hildegard of Bingen writes: Who is the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit is
