SACRAMENTAL LIVING

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

“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...

“Eve and Adam decide the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is more desirable than their relationship to God. God told...

“So, attention is the central point of spiritual warfare, the focus of Christian life, the criterion and measure of salvation of the...

“…the opposite of love is ego…love is outwardly focused while ego is inwardly focused. Our little ego continually limits our worldview,...

“The loss of this participation and the subsequent diminution and corruption of their being is what it means for an angelic being to...

“…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...

“No one forces us to choose today between idolatry and faithfulness, but we so often freely worship false gods when we ground the meaning...

“I know well from a history of panic attacks that shallow, quickened breath is a symptom of deep distress. I also know well the wild...