SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“Christianity demands that the family be a small church…Our home is a little church, and creating the right sort of context and...

“Sorrows are the best harbingers of the will of God, and from the beginning of the age they have served as a sign of God’s election. God...

“It’s impossible to harvest the fields with a shovel, or to hammer with a sickle, or to build with a knife, or to dig with a saw… but...

“The pride of the mind is much more disastrous than the pride of the will, because the pride of the will can be observed by the mind,...

“Many people today lack perseverance. We have become so accustomed to instantaneous communication and access to entertainment and...

“It is a commonplace in the Fathers to describe despair or sadness as the result of failing to get what we want. It sounds quite simple,...

“We fail to understand that knowledge is an act of communion. In some measure, everything we “know” becomes a part of us, and in becoming...

“Our Risen Lord has liberated us from slavery to the fear of death, which is at the root of all our anxiety and despair. So the next time...

“The word “apocalypse” means “to remove the veil from that which is hidden, that which is in darkness, that which is covered.” It’s the...

“The virtue of humility is best captured by our willingness to receive with thanksgiving those things (of whatever size) that come our...