SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“Our evaluations of others are quite incomplete and subjective; we not only can’t look into their souls, but often know nothing about...

“By offering our time and energy to attend to the mundane matters necessary for the wellbeing of the Church, we grow in love for Him in...

“The received word of God, sown into the depth of the heart, begins its secret work, like leaven in dough. However, that which was heard...

“Heresy comes from a Greek word that means “picking and choosing.” A heretic is someone who picks and chooses which parts of a religion...

“People always seem to be thinking too literally, and Jesus is always moving them from the literal to the spiritual level—to seeing...

“…although humans could feasibly have united the various natural divisions in the created order, they could not of their own accord...

“Prayer is strange stuff. As a purely mental event it can be indistinguishable from the running dialog that goes on in our heads all the...

“God is beyond our human conceptions and we cannot describe Him thoroughly with human language. But the Church Fathers go even further:...

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

“I truly felt the presence of God, and this feeling was reflected in my love for going to church… And I didn’t have this religious life...