SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“I consider it both a strange mystery and a settled matter of the faith that God prefers not to do things alone…He acts in a manner that...

“What were God’s first words, having become man, in His peaching? ‘Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’ There are no hopeless...

“Eve and Adam decide the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is more desirable than their relationship to God. God told...

“…the opposite of love is ego…love is outwardly focused while ego is inwardly focused. Our little ego continually limits our worldview,...

“The loss of this participation and the subsequent diminution and corruption of their being is what it means for an angelic being to...

“…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...

“No one forces us to choose today between idolatry and faithfulness, but we so often freely worship false gods when we ground the meaning...

“I know well from a history of panic attacks that shallow, quickened breath is a symptom of deep distress. I also know well the wild...

“Everything we can see is in reality calling us to something much deeper, and everything in creation transcends its material existence.”...

“But Nietzsche, madman and destroyer of faith, fascinated me. His work was twisted and imaginative, truthful and awful and compelling; he...