SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“Man is a being with an upright spine. He cannot change the natural position of his body without losing his dignity. A man on all fours...

“After Adam and Eve disobeyed God, sin and death entered the human experience. Instead of ordering the world around God, we tried to...

“Human efforts alone achieve nothing in the Kingdom of God. Human efforts under the power of God the Holy Spirit yield everything God...

“From the moment you meet and convert to Christ, your intensely difficult spiritual work begins of self-improvement, of being transformed...

“Jesus says of Satan, “He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he...

“The cry, “Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand!” is not an enjoinment to moral improvement. It is a call to recognize the very...

“St. Maximus the Confessor describes human beings as a “microcosm,” that is, as the universe (cosmos) made small (micro). This indicates...

“The Church speaks to us about the power of repentance and gives us an image of how a man can rise up from the abyss of sin to the...

“ ‘But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it’ (Genesis 4:7)....

“Throughout human history, the existence of evil spirits has been something so obvious that it is practically a universal constant across...