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...
Powerlessness
“Without turning to God, without regular prayer, confession and Communion we will always be powerless before our sins.” (Priest Alexei...
Personhood
“The teaching of the faith regarding Personhood requires an acceptance of the connectedness of existence. Human sin tends towards...
Grief and Grieving
“There is a movement to our grief—a progression that leads to a conclusion. That conclusion is a place of acceptance and peace—acceptance...
Disconnection
“I want to press the point of the mistaken notion that outward things, material things, have an inferiority to inward ideas and...
Paths
“St. Paul tells us that we are never actually free (not in the sense that we understand). We are always slaves but for the lack of a...
Invitation
“...God comes into our lives when we invite Him with all our being, opening the gates of our heart from the inside. He will not come...