SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“Words have something of a sacramental relationship with the reality they represent. Or, to be more precise, they have an iconic...

“An evil person is not someone who is nothing but evil, someone with no redeeming features or virtues whatsoever. An evil person is not a...

“God is He of Whom no questions would arise within us if we weren’t sinful, if we hadn’t fallen from Paradise, as chicks fall from their...

“Attending church is not the same as being united to the Church. Salvation is not granted by presence in a building, but by synergy—the...

“I once confessed to an experienced priest that sinful thoughts were torturing me, and this is what he advised me: “Think of the thoughts...

“There is a natural pattern of the telos in our genetic reality. DNA is an example of a natural telos, a patterning within us that moves...

“In Genesis 1: 3 we read: “God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light.” God was not only making a visible creation but more...

“…it does not help that our image and sound rich society creates a living space that is extremely noisy. All around us there are...

“The virtue of humility is best captured by our willingness to receive with thanksgiving those things (of whatever size) that come our...

“…our modern culture believes that relationships with other people are merely psychological phenomena – they are all in our head. There...