SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“… it also deserves to be pointed out that the first words of Jesus to have been written down anywhere (as far as we know) were not the...

“The Fathers of the Church tell us to hate the sin, not the sinner. They tell us to refuse to sin ourselves, and to understand that the...

“Too often, those seeking to “salvage” the Scriptures—motivated by our modern disapproval of violence, particularly when it affects...

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

“Our roots, our heritage, and our life experiences shape us, for in them, as in every aspect of the created order, the hand of the Lord...

“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...

“To think in a sacramental way about the world basically means two things. Primarily, it means to see the physical and spiritual as...

“We fail to understand that knowledge is an act of communion. In some measure, everything we “know” becomes a part of us, and in becoming...

“Our Risen Lord has liberated us from slavery to the fear of death, which is at the root of all our anxiety and despair. So the next time...

“The word “apocalypse” means “to remove the veil from that which is hidden, that which is in darkness, that which is covered.” It’s the...