SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“We increasingly live in a world where it appears as though everyone is courageous, especially behind the screens of social media. Technology gives a false sense of personal power. But in reality, in real-life situations, very few seem to have the courage to speak truth to power. Especially in situations where they personally have something to lose or risk. How many of us “stay silent” at a meeting, be it the workplace or otherwise, not because we have nothing to offer or hav

“In thinking about darkness and light – and their role in our apprehension of the truth – I cannot but think about Beauty, which is a primary place in which the light of God is made manifest among us (if rightly perceived). The heart that is full of darkness cannot truly perceive beauty: the heart which is full of light, cannot help but perceive it. Perhaps a measure of our heart can be found in how we perceive the world around us: is it primarily a place of beauty or darknes

“ On the day of Christ’s birth, the regular events of human history began to be penetrated by eternal events: the Incarnation, the redemption on the Cross, the Resurrection, the Ascension, and the sitting at the Father’s right hand…the Nativity was not properly the beginning of the Life of Christ, but rather a bodily extension of His eternal spiritual presence. His Incarnation was only the means for His entry into the world in order to carry out the strategy designed by God f

“An evil person is not someone who is nothing but evil, someone with no redeeming features or virtues whatsoever. An evil person is not a...

“…by entering into His created order by means of the Incarnation, God intimately unites Himself to our nature, thereby infusing it with...

“That the soul is superior to the body is an assumption based in Hellenistic philosophy and is a bit dualistic as the bible presents...

“In the created world only the human being combines material and spiritual elements. Human existence is thus differentiated from...

“…our age is haunted. On the one hand, we live under a brass heaven, ensconced in immanence. We live in the twilight of both gods and...

"The divine cannot be easily explained or clearly defined, but yet God is not completely out of reach either; divine mysteries can be...

“Human beings have an innate sense of transcendence and longing for ultimate reality experienced only in the internal presence of God.”...