SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“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...

“God is beyond our human conceptions and we cannot describe Him thoroughly with human language. But the Church Fathers go even further:...

“The Lord says that because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold (Matthew 24:12). Usually this point is presented as...

“So we see dramatized in Genesis the bitter “fruit” of an approach to the interpretation of spiritual realities that attempts to be...

“There was once a woman who went to church for thirty years. When she got sick, she was scared and said to her priest, “Father, have I...

“God creates the cosmos so that love between beings is possible. God creates the world with the intention of entering into the world in...

“Even among those of us who call ourselves Christians, the concept of godly sorrow (2 Cor 7:10) is not well understood. How easy it is to...

“ ‘Beloved, we are God’s children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him,...

“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...

“We modern people suffer a lot because we don’t want to accept ourselves as we are. So we don’t accept ourselves, but at the same time,...