SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“…the witness of Christians generally is seriously hindered in the modern secular world by the great variety of voices that all claim to speak authoritatively for Christianity.” (Dr. Mary S. Ford) “Christ is giving a humbling lesson to His chosen Apostles about how difficult evangelism will prove to be. Even if you are offering people eternal life and entrance into God’s Kingdom, they may not believe you or may not be interested in your offer. Evangelism must be done in love,

“God created this entire visible world so that, through man, He might become all in all. This is the human person’s specific mission: to be the link between God and the world, a link between all things, by uniting his spirit with God.” (Fr. Dumitru Staniloe) “It is the meaning of human existence that must be dealt with and not the regulation of human behavior and the legalistic prohibition of human actions, especially when these are dogmatized as ‘the norm.’…The creation of m

“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,...

“It is easy to fall into despair when the deepest desires of our hearts go unfulfilled. When that happens, we suffer but also have an...

“…human minds, human reason, and human language are all inadequate for understanding God and expressing Ultimate Truth…Scripture can only...

“The comprehension of the Gospel depends neither on mental abilities, nor on philosophical sophistication, nor on any other science, but...

“When the Lord Jesus addresses His disciples openly before a multitude assembled in Roman Palestine, He reminds us that the faithful of...

“If you even wonder why you don’t see God, look at your own heart and what’s in it…But God is merciful. The flow of a life between...

“The Fathers understood the Bible to be unlike other texts in that there are always two authors working in synergy to produce each verse:...

“Bad art doesn’t die thoroughly enough; that’s why it never lives completely, and why bad art is almost always eventually discarded by...