SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“The Fathers understood the Bible to be unlike other texts in that there are always two authors working in synergy to produce each verse:...

“So we see dramatized in Genesis the bitter “fruit” of an approach to the interpretation of spiritual realities that attempts to be...

“It is very interesting that…it is only when God “empties himself” for the life of the world, that He actually takes on being. Before...

“To be made in the image of God is a sign of highest dignity; so high, in fact, that outside of Christ no human being can even be said to...

“Stillness of the heart is the practice of quieting yourself to such a degree that you can finally come to hear the voice of God clearly...

“The first evidence of Great Lent is found in the Paschal Letter 2 of Athanasius the Great (297- 372), Patriarch of Alexandria, dated to...

“…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...

“The pride of the mind is much more disastrous than the pride of the will, because the pride of the will can be observed by the mind,...

“Grace is the deliverance that God gave the world. When we in the Church say “grace,” we understand this word to mean energy, the...

“The Genesis narrative shows that the relationship between Man and God is not primarily an intellectual one (the contemplative raising of...