SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“Mankind is carried away by other aspirations and goals, created for its own detriment and ruin. There are people who don’t pray at all, who don’t feel the need for it, who don’t understand the point of praying and don’t believe in the possibility of being heard by God; and many people do pray, but rarely and always reluctantly, with compulsion and difficulty. Thus, there are very few people who live by fervent, strong, sincere, noetic, and unceasing prayer, according to the

“If a man were to see himself in a mirror in a fit of anger, of rage, he’d be horrified and wouldn’t recognize himself with such a...

“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...

“We all struggle to persist in prayer…Mercifully, Christ aids us in our labors at prayer. Our King and God presents us with three types...

“Precisely because of the excision of God from our life, or at least the marginalization of him, we’ve become convinced that everything’s...

“The culture of our own time continues this separation from Christianity, but not only from Christianity. Contemporary culture is losing...

“The story of the first sin begins not with a choice, but with a lie. As much as we tend to emphasize “free-will” as the origin and...

“I knew a woman who was a self-professed non-believer, though she was willing to believe. Her husband began bringing her to my parish....

“James 5:16 draws the contrast to such Spiritless worship and prayer: “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”...

“During this season of mask-wearing, we have become weary of a “faceless” existence. I can think of nothing that is more de-personalizing...