SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“ “Take up your cross,” says Jesus Christ. He didn’t say to create or construct yourself a cross. Christ also didn’t choose or build...

“There is a movement to our grief—a progression that leads to a conclusion. That conclusion is a place of acceptance and peace—acceptance...

“From a lack of contentment comes death…What we see in the Garden is paradise. A place of intimate and immediate communion with God,...

“We should pray for the ability to distinguish discernment from judgment. The word discernment is derived from the idea of perception. It...

“In Christ’s teaching, suffering is not abolished – it is communed. The Bread we eat is a communion in the broken Body of Christ. The Cup...

“St. Paul tells us that we are never actually free (not in the sense that we understand). We are always slaves but for the lack of a...

“I find the bits and pieces of everyday life much more precious than the hopes and dreams of an unlived future. Clouds passing in the sky...

“Our free will gives us either a propensity to virtue, or an inclination to sin…humans are aligned either with mortal Adam or the...

“This world is a world of mixed powers. This world is a field of battle on which people must consciously and voluntarily choose: either...

“...God comes into our lives when we invite Him with all our being, opening the gates of our heart from the inside. He will not come...