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In yesterday’s DM, we spoke of the resistance going on in our time. Honoring people of courage and values is a kind of resistance, also.
This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are written by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You
While Mechtild of Magdeburg might well have influenced Dante concerning the imaginary shape of Purgatory (see DM Nov. 21), another woman is remembered as the
The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is something that one is inclined to toss into the sentimental garbage bin, until one finds its
Dante’s scholars agree that the character of Matelda represents the “prelapsarian” human being, that is, the person not weighed down by original sin. In yesterday’s
Like Marguerite Porete (see yesterday’s DM), Hadewijch of Brabant was a beguine, a learned woman, and wrote in the language of the people — in
The majority of the witches’ trials and executions happened in the early modern era, with the Malleus Maleficarum — the main textbook on how to
I was saddened to learn this past hour that Rabbi Arthur Waskow has passed on at the age of 92. Activist, wisdom-seeker and teacher, his
Yesterday, October 15, was the feast day of Teresa of Avila (1515-1582). This most famous and revered Spanish saint — proclaimed “doctor of the Church”
An homiletic treatise of the 1st century C.E. presents a list of ancestors who trusted in God since the origins of the world. All together
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