SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“…when you have fear and uncertainty and you want to calculate, define, and control everything, then you’re not living in reality. You become a neurotic and cowardly person. Remember the Parable of the Talents. The man who hid his talent, who hid his charisma, hid from life—he was afraid to live. What do we do? We fear living. We’re afraid to be. We’re afraid of everything. And so, we don’t live, we don’t exist. This fear of not losing anything will not give you a peaceful li

Quotes of the Day for November 14, 2025 – Thoughts on unity and division “Without unity, there can be no diversity (for on what common basis could we then establish difference itself?) while without diversity, there can be no unity (for what would then be left to be unified?)…Unity is good because the Church is One (as is affirmed in the Creed). But it is not good because it is “useful.” Indeed, I suspect that God has allowed our disunity for His own purposes – including savi

“You can know life only through life itself. In other words, the practical application of the Scriptures builds up our relationship with God. We learn from the Bible about Christian life and find the basis for deep faith, because, So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (Rom. 10:17).” (Priest Anthony Rusakevich) “St. John of Damascus’s remark: Let us draw from the fountain of this garden [the Scriptures] perennial and purest waters springing into life

“As we look to the scriptures, with the crucified and exalted Christ as our starting point, we can, only now, recognize that the world...

“Since man is “called to be a god” (i.e. was created to become a god), as long as he does not find himself on the path of Theosis he...

“…sin lies in the direction of the will…A person sins when he looks upon his life as if it belonged only to him…It is necessary for...

“I truly felt the presence of God, and this feeling was reflected in my love for going to church… And I didn’t have this religious life...

“There is a natural pattern of the telos in our genetic reality. DNA is an example of a natural telos, a patterning within us that moves...

“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...

“Facts are those things that are objectively verifiable—the boiling point of water, the diameter of the Earth, and so on. But even though...