SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“So we see dramatized in Genesis the bitter “fruit” of an approach to the interpretation of spiritual realities that attempts to be...

“ ‘Beloved, we are God’s children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him,...

“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...

“The heart of worship is the offering of praise and thanksgiving to the God who has given us life and sustains all things in their...

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for...

“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 goal of the Christian life is the acquisition of love for God and others. The Lord Himself speaks of only two commandments, upon...

“Becoming a child of God, being born of God by being purified and renewed, is the clear theme this chapter opens with, as Jesus instructs...

“What were God’s first words, having become man, in His peaching? ‘Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’ There are no hopeless...

“…the “pattern” in the whole of Scripture is revealed in the primary pattern of Christ’s Pascha (death and resurrection). His Pascha...