SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“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...

“All good things come from God providentially, and those who bring them are the servants of what is good.” (St. Mark the Ascetic)  “We do...

“The first evidence of Great Lent is found in the Paschal Letter 2 of Athanasius the Great (297- 372), Patriarch of Alexandria, dated to...

“Who hasn’t experienced that indescribable sweet inner pleasure that our heart feels when we manage, with God’s aid, to help another get...

“The Gospel mentions several points when it was demanded of the Lord to give an immediate answer, but He remained silent: And when He was...

“Divine justice is radically different from human justice. There is no equal exchange remotely possible;…“the whole moral order as we...

“St. Peter — always the most zealous of the disciples — then made an extremely bold reply: “Lord, if it be Thou, bid me come unto Thee on...

“I find the bits and pieces of everyday life much more precious than the hopes and dreams of an unlived future. Clouds passing in the sky...

“…we cannot see ourselves accurately simply by looking at ourselves. The soul does not serve as a private mirror. Who and what we are is...

“Many people indeed live lives of “quiet desperation” simply because they have no hope and cannot imagine where hope would begin. The...