When the old creeds have become obsolete, I look for new words and metaphors to evoke the Mystery, to revive the Flame, to free us from so much fear and planetary suffocation, to breathe and walk together towards the thresholds of the Light from which everything springs.
Spirituality and Transcendence: how to live the old age
/in Articles, Dawns /by José Arregi(Lecture delivered in the SUMMER COURSES of the UPV-EHU –University of the Basque Country–, in the Course “Meaning and spirituality of life. Taking on new dimensions in the old age paradigms”, in Miramar Palace, Donostia-San Sebastian, September 13, 2021) I start these reflections with two biblical sentences and three introductory observations. “A rich experience […]
Papacy for another century
/0 Comments/in Articles /by José ArregiIn 1995, Pope John Paul II in the Encyclical Ut unum sint expressed willingness to seek a new way of exercising the primacy of the Bishop of Rome as a ministry of communion for all the Churches. The proposal sparked interest in all churches, but was quite soon forgotten. In the pages that follow I […]
The Spirit that moans in all beings
/0 Comments/in Articles /by José ArregiNotes for a liberating eco-spirituality. Or notes for eco-liberating spirituality. Whichever. An authentic spirituality, whether religious or not, is essentially ecological. An ecological spirituality is necessarily liberating, and a liberating spirituality is necessarily ecological. And only an ecological and liberating life is truly “spiritual” regardless of whether it is or is not coated in […]