Divine Likeness
“The human person, created in the image of God and called to progress toward the divine likeness, is unique and of infinite value.” (Fr....
Prayer (Fervent)
“Paul not only urges us to pray, but he teaches us how we should do it. He writes that we should offer our petitions and supplications to...
Fire (Divine and Spiritual Fire)
“There is within every human person gold and silver and mud and dross. Life in this age has been given to us for repentance and the...
Orientation/Reorientation
“Our orienting loves are like a kind of gravity—carrying us in the direction to which they are weighted. If our loves are absorbed with...
Sin and Forgiveness
“Sin is fundamentally a kind of demonic force that masters us and makes us demonic slaves when we give in to it (John 8:34)…Being an...
Brokenness
“Just as God sent Jesus back into the world with his wounds, so we are sent into each day with our wounds…Jesus His followers with their...
Light
“For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the...
Life (the Good Life)
“People think about how to live a good life in many different ways. Some want rules to follow, regardless of how obedience to them...
Tension
“As Christians, we live in the tension of the already and the not yet. Already Christ is risen, and death is conquered; not yet do we...
Ascension
“Christ's Ascension is His enthronement in the fullness of divine authority and glory. Icons of the Ascension represent Christ in such a...