SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“When we do something well, we want to tell others and be recognized. But recognition is dangerous—it can lead to inflated pride…Often...

“…March 25, which is traditionally considered in Christendom to be the date of the first Good Friday, the Fall of Adam and Eve, and also...

“Among human beings, love appears to spring from feelings and emotions. Thus some mistakenly characterize love as irrational. But love...

“…it is easy to forget the sober truth of God’s eternal love and care for us. But history shows we humans have faced epidemics and...

“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and...

“What is prayer? Prayer is doxology, praise, thanksgiving, confession, supplication and intercession to God…Prayer is the way to renewal...

“It is not those who begin the race who are seen as champions, but only those who finish the race. As Jesus taught us in Matthew 10:22 –...

“…cultivating a contemplative practice, such as using a prayer word, the breath, sitting in stillness, is not to reduce prayer to a...

“Most woundedness goes back to a lack of love in one way or another, and what is most needed is to fill the person with an experience of...

“Jesus urges us to “give to the poor” (Mt 19:21) and to lay down our lives for others (Jn 15:13). But even such a selfless act done...