SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“With supernatural authority, Christ our God rebukes the wind and calms the sea (Mark 4:39). He intends to awaken his disciples from...

“ ‘But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.’ (John 6:69). “To be givers of life in...

“It is only in Saint Luke’s account that we read that wonderful verse of the healed demoniac sitting at the feet of Jesus…It is an...

“…we were troubled on every side. Outside were conflicts, inside were fears (2 Corinthians 7:5). In this passage St. Paul captures what...

“The ideas that constitute “modernity” center around life as management. Modernity assumes that life can be managed, and that human...

“Yet here [striving to do God’s will] is precisely where the conflict is great. What gives our inner conflicts their power over us? We...

“ ‘Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart’ (2 Corinthians 4:1).  In the face of...

“All of us have known moments during which close kin or wonderful friends have suffered a grievous loss. Our instinct is to go to them,...

“The godly suffer, in part, so that having experienced God's comfort they in turn can comfort others. Thus, Paul shows the fallacy in his...

“Even if we do not constantly struggle against “murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies” (Matthew 12:19),...