
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
Having named the “five supreme joys” within Divinity, Julian tells us that “Christ wants us to rejoice in them, too.” She recognizes three faces in
We are meditating on Joy because in our meditations on Evil, Rabbi Heschel reminded us that holiness is the prime medicine for evil. What is
Yesterday we meditated on the need to dig deep to get to our true self. Sometimes suffering is a gateway to truth. Julian of Norwich
In our recent daily meditations, we have been praising and therefore thanking Earth and Air, Fire and Water. As Thomas Berry put it in a recent
To me, one of the greatest gifts from science in our time is its bestowing us with the news of the universe and its 13.8
Dear readers and meditators: We are slightly altering our DM fare, making it a bit lighter for reader and writer/photo gatherers as well. In our
We are meditating on Pope Francis’s visit to the first peoples of Canada this week to apologize for so much abuse and trauma toward the
We have been celebrating the implications of the Webb Telescope for awakening humanity to a healthy sense of our place and time in this amazing universe
Clearly, in our recent daily meditations, Eckhart is urging us to become the light, the light of Christ, the light of God, the light of
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