SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“…part of what it means to say we live in a fallen world is that people are in a weakened state, in poor spiritual health, likely to...

“A key word from classical Christianity is the Greek term “nous,” and its adjectival form, “noetic.” Western translators early on...

“From a world held hostage by the idea that the quantifiably big, the numerically great, and the visibly expansive accurately describe...

“Isn’t it amazing that everyone is taught grammar so no one writes in his own way, but according to the rules? They try to teach everyone...

“It is the eternal, timeless God who gives meaning to time by imbuing it with holiness and incorporating time into eternity…Time was...

“There is a kind of moral person with a passion for cleanliness, who runs to confession because for him any little spot is unbearable,...

“On some level we feel that we can’t trust others, that we can’t trust God to do what is right, and that we have to be in control by...

“The reason the Church puts restrictions on pleasures…is not that she is against them, but she wants you to be able to distinguish...

“Christianity demands that the family be a small church…Our home is a little church, and creating the right sort of context and...

“It is a commonplace in the Fathers to describe despair or sadness as the result of failing to get what we want. It sounds quite simple,...