SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“…God Himself takes on human form to reveal man’s vocation and meaning as divine. From this moment onward man is free. Nothing stands over him, for the very world is his as a gift from God to fulfill his divine destiny….Tragically, too many people do not hear this voice of Jesus as the voice of Love Incarnate calling us to repent, to sacrifice, to have sacrificial love in order to have the greatest joy, to have our deepest desires fulfilled, to find our true selves, to fulfil

“…sin lies in the direction of the will…A person sins when he looks upon his life as if it belonged only to him…It is necessary for...

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

“Facts are those things that are objectively verifiable—the boiling point of water, the diameter of the Earth, and so on. But even though...

“…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...

“The normal mode of “seeing” in our daily world can be called “objective.” We see things as objects, and nothing more. Indeed, we see...

“…hubris seems to signify not pride but rather a failure of the aesthetic sense; the hubristic man is the man who cannot see that his...

“In the created world only the human being combines material and spiritual elements. Human existence is thus differentiated from...

“Our task is to struggle, to cast sin aside, and to strive for the holiness that God is creating in us by means of His grace and...

“Is our starting point God or man, a Christian humanism or secular humanism. . .?…When the human being sets himself or herself in the...