Horizontal and Vertical (Life/Faith)
“One of the parishioners of my church is a man…I knew him for several years. He would come to confession about once a year, right before Lent, and his confession went something like this: “Father, I repent, I am a sinner, but I don’t have any major sins—I live like everyone else.” I tried to talk to him, asking if he read the Gospel or prayed at home. He would shrug and reply, “No time, father—work, family, this and that. But I try to be a good person.” And I could see he was
Quotes of the Day for October 16, 2026 – Thoughts on the horizontal and vertical nature of our existence
“One of the parishioners of my church is a man…I knew him for several years. He would come to confession about once a year, right before Lent, and his confession went something like this: “Father, I repent, I am a sinner, but I don’t have any major sins—I live like everyone else.” I tried to talk to him, asking if he read the Gospel or prayed at home. He would shrug and reply, “No time, father—work, family, this and that. But I try to be a good person.” And I could see he was
Faith as Communion
“… man has a capacity (in incapacity) for faith. Thanks to his ekstatic personhood man confronts nothingness not as a sort of acceptable...
Force
“According to St. John Chrysostom, the violent who take the Kingdom by force are those who have such earnest desire for Christ that they...
Problems
“The ideas that constitute “modernity” center around life as management. Modernity assumes that life can be managed, and that human...