SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“ ‘But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must subdue it’ (Genesis 4:7)....

“There are moments in life when our customary peace is temporarily set aside by unanticipated events. None of us are immune to these...

“Our culture has trained people to become an audience. A theater performance, a concert, and a Church service are all of a piece. Worse...

“Saint Paul states that we practice the faith of the apostles when we “have carefully followed my doctrine [and] manner of life” (2...

“Prayer is an encounter with God. It’s not just a question of sacred duty, not some kind of religious obligation, and even less is it...

“…our modern culture believes that relationships with other people are merely psychological phenomena – they are all in our head. There...

“True knowledge changes us. “If only I had known,” can also mean, “If only I had been a different person.” Knowledge, in this biblical...

“St. John Chrysostom writes an encomium of Abraham, pointing out that nothing in his life prepared him for such faithfulness to God. For,...

“According to Bishop Kallistos Ware, “Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is...

“In times of adversity, we can find solace in the words of St. Isaac the Syrian. He wrote, “In love did He bring the world into...