SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“If the Kingdom of Heaven is the knowledge of God, it follows that the greatest sin is ignorance of God…Ignorance of God is always a sign that relations with God have broken down, have been terminated, whereas the knowledge of God leads one to union with Him.” (Archimandrite Aimilianos) “…knowledge about God, like any other knowledge, is absorbed only by the mind and memory, studying the Law of God in school usually becomes an abstract, external assimilation of religious trut

“God is an obvious reality, but man is a paradoxical being—God’s beloved creation, fallen away from real life and caught in some fiction,...

“Just as Christ deepens our understanding of the Law in spiritual terms, so Saint Paul advises us to rid ourselves of all reluctance and...

“People always seem to be thinking too literally, and Jesus is always moving them from the literal to the spiritual level—to seeing...

“In Christian theology Jesus Christ is said to be the perfect human. This is partly why we are called to imitate him (1 Cor 11:1) if we...

“The asceticism of prayer is important for each one of us. It is not always easy to pray. Quite the opposite! Prayer may bore you, it may...

“Everything is beautiful, all gives God glory in its unique manner. One cannot recognize that without the insight of the Holy Spirit. If...

“By holding on so tightly to our sense of self, we choked God, strangling him, and put him to death. ‘But,’ you might ask, ‘can God die?’...

“…sin indicates spiritual illness…God never departs from us. It is we who depart from Him. It is we who become spiritually ill through...

“We also heard today from Saint Paul these words: “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its...