SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“… it also deserves to be pointed out that the first words of Jesus to have been written down anywhere (as far as we know) were not the...

“… it also deserves to be pointed out that the first words of Jesus to have been written down anywhere (as far as we know) were not the...

“The second active character in this event [Matthew 26:6-16] is the sinful woman, whom the Church’s tradition and hymns tell us had...

“One of the most encouraging lines of the Divine Liturgy comes shortly before Holy Communion, when the priest says “The Holy Gifts for...

“There is an experience of shame that surrounds the self (everybody’s self) that is simply unavoidable. Shame is associated with the...

“Spiritual death is therefore, spiritual paralysis. Those who are in this state of lifelessness are “dead in trespasses and the...

“I consider it both a strange mystery and a settled matter of the faith that God prefers not to do things alone…He acts in a manner that...

“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 first to enter heaven was a thief. And the first to enter hell was an apostle of Christ. And how all this happened is a great lesson...

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