SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“One of the most encouraging lines of the Divine Liturgy comes shortly before Holy Communion, when the priest says “The Holy Gifts for...

“The Holy Bible and the Church Fathers encourage us to become persons, not individuals. Only then we can be in the likeness of the Holy...

“Human life consists of two components: one is internal, invisible, and the other external, visible. The first is all the spiritual...

“Two gifts that God has given to man for the good of himself and others and which he should multiply are conscience and faith. The...

“Therefore, the All-Merciful Lord sends us various reasons for works of mercy and charity so that we can be saved—ever more poor, sick...

“If I sit down to say the Jesus Prayer [Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner] I will very quickly have certain kinds...

“It would seem that we are back to the very beginning with the serpent in Eden—the first Gnostic?—whispering that God is not a good God...

“We live in a culture of statistics – and they hide a lot. They obscure us in the reduction of our lives to generalities. None of us is a...

“…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 foremost issue facing us in this life is the state of our relationship with God. And yet this relationship with God is...