SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“The way to a pure heart and the way to see God are actually the same thing. We have to have the eyes to see purity and beauty…We are to look for that which is pure, beautiful, lovely, godly, holy and readily visible in the world. Then we’ll begin to see purity, beauty, love, holiness, and even God Himself.” (Fr. Ted Bobosh) “In the Biblical and Patristic understanding, the “heart” (Hebrew: leb; Greek: kardia) is the deep center of the human personality, where the spirit, the

“Many of us long for the past because we believe, correctly, that the past uniquely offered something that satisfied a core human need—namely, the need for hope for something better and everlasting beyond this life, which communities steeped in religious tradition, in which faith formed the center of one’s life and permeated every aspect of it, were able to inspire. In short, this past provided the means by which man’s spiritual thirst could be quenched. The tragedy of the pr

“At the root of all this is the failure to see who our true enemies are. Our enemies are demons. Humans who teach false things are not...

“Seeking the Kingdom of God isn’t a retreat into the wilderness or a complete renunciation of the world; withdrawing from the world for...

“If we try to describe our perception and experience of the Holy Spirit, we will quickly realize that human words are not enough for...

“Intercessory prayer “in behalf of all and for all” is a deliberate and decisive act of those individuals who have been baptized into...

“…the Lord taught that the purity that the Jewish Law sought to preserve does not come from outside ourselves. It comes from the inside,...

“That first human sin was about turning away from God. He had explicitly told Adam and Eve not to eat of that tree, and yet they did it...

“Many people, because they’ve written God and Christ out of their lives, think that their existence has been enclosed within the stifling...

“Our experience of God from the beginning is that God is creative. Many scholars think Genesis 1 is meant to be a poem, and the Greek...