Cross
“To be made in the image of God is a sign of highest dignity; so high, in fact, that outside of Christ no human being can even be said to...
Weakness
“The second active character in this event [Matthew 26:6-16] is the sinful woman, whom the Church’s tradition and hymns tell us had...
Awareness
“There is an experience of shame that surrounds the self (everybody’s self) that is simply unavoidable. Shame is associated with the...
Individualism versus Personhood
“The Holy Bible and the Church Fathers encourage us to become persons, not individuals. Only then we can be in the likeness of the Holy...
Human Person
“The loss of this participation and the subsequent diminution and corruption of their being is what it means for an angelic being to...
Fear and Awe
“Divine awe has nothing to do with trepidation – by which I mean, not the tremulousness induced by joy, but the trepidation induced by...
Reality
“Everything we can see is in reality calling us to something much deeper, and everything in creation transcends its material existence.”...
Behavior
“While St Paul uses language which distinguishes between the ‘spiritual’ human and the ‘natural’ or ‘carnal’ human, he still holds to a...
Joy (Finding and Spreading)
“The reason the Church puts restrictions on pleasures…is not that she is against them, but she wants you to be able to distinguish...
Home
“Christianity demands that the family be a small church…Our home is a little church, and creating the right sort of context and...