SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“The Lord knows that we can only make sense of the world through rational engagement with it, and so we are given patterns and symbols to...

“St. Maximos the Confessor writes about three “incarnations” of the Logos: Creation, the Scriptures, and the God/Man, Jesus Christ. The...

“It is very interesting that…it is only when God “empties himself” for the life of the world, that He actually takes on being. Before...

“The great tragedy of secularism is its reduction of all things to mere things. We are created to have right relationships with all...

“…in the sacraments, we are not asking God to make something to be other than it is but to reveal it to be what it truly is…A problem...

“In literature and in art, we call the inversion of two elements a “chiasm,” from the Greek letter Chi (Χ) that can be physically traced...

“We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into...

“While every godly expression of our talents, and every lawful calling, can become an occasion to glorify God, the cultural mandate of...

“Some of what we experience of God still remains a mystery despite our entering into that mystery. Human logic is not able to account for...

“The worst conclusion to draw is the notion of a “sin nature” (a horrible theological error). A “nature” (by definition) is “what a thing...