SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“We live in a culture of statistics – and they hide a lot. They obscure us in the reduction of our lives to generalities. None of us is a...

“Who hasn’t experienced that indescribable sweet inner pleasure that our heart feels when we manage, with God’s aid, to help another get...

“Everything is paradox, and we throw ourselves upon the mercy of God… as Grace increases in our lives, we become more like Christ through...

“Rather than support a life of prayer our society keeps us perpetually distracted and erodes our ability to concentrate, compromises our...

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

“Sin and passion are inextricably linked, but they should be considered separately. We call sin a person’s action which violates one of...

“…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...

“Divine awe has nothing to do with trepidation – by which I mean, not the tremulousness induced by joy, but the trepidation induced by...

“In literature and in art, we call the inversion of two elements a “chiasm,” from the Greek letter Chi (Χ) that can be physically traced...

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