Lessons from the Archetype of Good Friday
Matthew Fox
April 10, 2020
We are meditating on the archetype of Good Friday, the death of Rabbi Jesus at the hands of the Roman Empire, and how they instruct
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Holy Stories in Holy Week during a Pandemic, continued
Matthew Fox
April 8, 2020
Every person’s life is a story. A sacred story. Worth telling, worth listening to, the joy of it and the struggles of it; the successes
Wisdom in a Time of Involuntary Withdrawal
Matthew Fox
March 26, 2020
Ernesto Cardenal speaks out on the Via Negativa and the many deaths we undergo before our final death when he writes: Only by dying to
Humor and the Via Creativa:
Ken Feit, Itinerant Fool
Matthew Fox
October 15, 2019
One faculty member in my MA program was Ken Feit who identified as an itinerant fool. A Jesuit seminarian, he was told by his provincial
Exploring the Apophatic Divinity (the Nameless God)
Matthew Fox
September 28, 2019
The word Apophatic means without light. The God of Creation, liberation and redemption is more a Cataphatic or “God with light” Divinity. But the Apophatic
Eckhart’s Call for a ‘Portable’ Solitude
Matthew Fox
September 25, 2019
Meister Eckhart, great mystic and prophet that he was, honored solitude but he challenges us to think differently about it. He writes: “Spirituality is not
Silence—an “Inner Wealth”
Matthew Fox
September 19, 2019
Meister Eckhart says we should “quit flapping our gums about God and return to the inner wealth of silence.” Once you’ve tasted emptiness, nothingness, and
Aquinas on Contemplation–Part II
Matthew Fox
September 18, 2019
Aquinas elaborates on the role of meditation and contemplation when he writes: “In the soul there are two kinds of distraction that have to be
Aquinas on Contemplation—Part I
Matthew Fox
September 17, 2019
We are meditating on that part of the Via Negativa that is about silence and contemplation. One might call it the “mind-emptiness that leads to
So Much is Positive in the Holy Darkness
Matthew Fox
September 15, 2019
Eckhart says, “The ground of the soul is dark.” Ninety-five percent of the Universe is a mystery that we call “dark matter” and “dark
