Beauty
“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...
Modern Culture
“While every godly expression of our talents, and every lawful calling, can become an occasion to glorify God, the cultural mandate of...
Incarnation
“We serve one another because we know that the world is full of pain and suffering caused by sin. We serve one another because we would...
Purpose
“It should be common knowledge (though it is not) that the whole of our purpose in this life is communion with God, and, together with...
Mystery
“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...
Sin, Nature, and Will
“The worst conclusion to draw is the notion of a “sin nature” (a horrible theological error). A “nature” (by definition) is “what a thing...
God's Nature/Our Nature
“Being renewed by God’s power, we become partakers of the divine nature. This does not mean we become divine by nature. If we...
Secularism
“…secularity is the negation, the evacuation from life, of the experience of the world as sacred reality, as “participant” in divine...
Sacramental Understanding and Living
“We go to church… in order to have our eyes opened to see the goodness which God bestowed upon creation… We begin to see God revealed in...
Sacramental World/Creation
“In all its most ancient traditions Christianity is a sacramental religion. Sacraments form the very life of the Church through which the...