SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“So there is always the law of God or the law of destruction in our human mind and heart. That would be a teaching of St. Paul in the letter to the Romans, very clearly, the seventh and eighth chapters. There’s always another law working in a human being. We’re never simply autonomous. So when people ask, “Was it me or was it the devil in me?” or “Was it me or was it the Holy Spirit in me, or Christ in me?” Sometimes people ask that. St. Paul says, “When I do good, I can do a

“If we look inside ourselves and try to see our tendencies, we will easily notice that we already have a developed habit of condemning...

“Christ then appears through shut doors in the midst of them and tells them one thing: ‘Peace be with you.’ For these to be the first...

“Prayer is strange stuff. As a purely mental event it can be indistinguishable from the running dialog that goes on in our heads all the...

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

“What is spiritual renewal? It is when you are no longer weighed down by the burden of past traumas and mistakes, your present is filled...

“Has the world always been such a mad dash and so busy, or is something just wrong with me? But it’s not the outer disquiet that troubles...

“Sin and passion are inextricably linked, but they should be considered separately. We call sin a person’s action which violates one of...

“I know well from a history of panic attacks that shallow, quickened breath is a symptom of deep distress. I also know well the wild...

“There is a kind of moral person with a passion for cleanliness, who runs to confession because for him any little spot is unbearable,...