SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“On some level we feel that we can’t trust others, that we can’t trust God to do what is right, and that we have to be in control by...

“The food and drink of nature sustains natural life, and only natural life.  A few years ago on a warm summer afternoon I was sitting on...

“While St Paul uses language which distinguishes between the ‘spiritual’ human and the ‘natural’ or ‘carnal’ human, he still holds to a...

“The reason the Church puts restrictions on pleasures…is not that she is against them, but she wants you to be able to distinguish...

“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...

“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...