A Revised “Hail Mary” & A New Cosmology Banish Despair

We have now proposed a brand new Hail Mary prayer that can be a extra historical one:

Hail Mary, stuffed with grace,
the Lord is with you, untroubled maiden.
You might be blessed amongst ladies,
you who introduced forth peace to individuals
and glory to the angels.
Blessed too is the fruit of your womb,
who by grace made it attainable for us to be his heirs.
Holy Mary, Mom of God, pray for us heirs
and colleagues of God on the hour of our creativity.  
Amen. 

Additionally in yesterday’s DM, I alluded to the necessary research by Jean Delumeau on the emergence of a Guilt Tradition within the West that culminated within the 16^th century.  He believes Protestantism upped the ante on despair:  

In its sixteenth-century type, the doctrine of justification by religion thus represents the logical (though excessive) finish of the lengthy and desolate highway via pessimism.  Incessantly repeated for greater than a thousand years, the affirmation of the world’s fragility, of its vice and its self-importance, reached an enormous viewers.  Man was however ‘dung’ and ‘filth’—no surprise the consequence was despair.

John Calvin says, “Life on this world is…. completely wretched. Nowhere is happiness to be discovered.”  An “infinite distress” abounds.  As a substitute of blessing within the cosmos, Calvin sees solely curse.  

Irrespective of the place we glance, excessive or low, we are able to see solely a curse that, spreading over all creatures and embracing the earth and the sky, must burden our souls with horrible despair. 

Creation Spirituality resists that despair and cautions towards it.

A brand new cosmology can liberate us from this guilt tradition—even John Calvin confessed to that, “if God had fashioned us of the stuff of the solar or the celebrities…then we would have stated that our starting was honorable.”

Sure, in the present day’s science with its new cosmology can elevate our souls, open our hearts, return us to the primal message homo sapiens must be taught earlier than it’s too late: The goodness of creation.  (See Gen 1.)

See Matthew Fox, Unique Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.

And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society, pp. 163-173.

And Fox, Confessions: The Making of a Submit-denominational Priest, p. 206.

Banner Picture: “Queen of the Could.” Picture of Our Girl of Cana within the Rosary Backyard on the Rosary Shrine in London. Picture by Fr. Lawrence Lew, OP, on Flickr.

Queries for Contemplation

Do you see the brand new cosmology and the surprise and awe it evokes together with the Webb Telescope banishing despair and awakening humanity just like the revised “Hail Mary” prayer can do?

Beneficial Studying

Unique Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality

Matthew Fox lays out an entire new path for Christianity—a path that’s the truth is very historical and really grounded in Jewish considering (the truth that Jesus was a Jew is commonly uncared for by Christian theology): the 4 Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an prolonged and deeply developed method.
“Unique Blessing makes out there to the Christian world and to the human neighborhood a radical remedy for all darkish and derogatory views of the pure world wherever these might have originated.” –Thomas Berry, creator, The Dream of the Earth; The Nice Work; co-author, The Universe Story

Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Reworking Evil in Soul and Society

Visionary theologian and best-selling creator Matthew Fox affords a brand new theology of evil that essentially modifications the standard notion of fine and evil and factors the best way to a extra enlightened remedy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Jap custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to assume creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we are able to do about them. 
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anyone single science.  A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, creator of Quantum Theology: Non secular Implications of the New Physics

Confessions: The Making of a Submit-Denominational Priest (Revised/Up to date Version)

Matthew Fox’s stirring autobiography, Confessions, reveals his private, mental, and non secular journey from altar boy, to Dominican priest, to his eventual break with the Vatican. 5 new chapters on this revised and up to date version carry added perspective in mild of the creator’s continued journey, and his reflections on the present modifications happening in church, society and the surroundings.
“The unfolding story of this irrepressible non secular revolutionary enlivens the thoughts and emboldens the center — should studying for anybody fascinated with braveness, creativity, and the way forward for faith.”
—Joanna Macy, creator of World as Lover, World as Self