SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“…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...

“…although humans could feasibly have united the various natural divisions in the created order, they could not of their own accord...

“Prayer is strange stuff. As a purely mental event it can be indistinguishable from the running dialog that goes on in our heads all the...

“The Lord knows that we can only make sense of the world through rational engagement with it, and so we are given patterns and symbols to...

“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...

“Attending church is not the same as being united to the Church. Salvation is not granted by presence in a building, but by synergy—the...

“It is very interesting that…it is only when God “empties himself” for the life of the world, that He actually takes on being. Before...

“Becoming a child of God, being born of God by being purified and renewed, is the clear theme this chapter opens with, as Jesus instructs...

“The second active character in this event [Matthew 26:6-16] is the sinful woman, whom the Church’s tradition and hymns tell us had...

“The distinction between things that are Caesar's and things that are God's does not imply the division of a believer's life into the...