Repentance
“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...
Life and Death
“What is life and what is death? Based on our everyday understanding, life is always joy, triumph, pleasure and enjoyment, whereas death...
Consumerism
“As Christians, then, we find ourselves in the awkward position, indicative of a genuine tension, of accepting our Lord’s teaching about...
Individualism versus Personhood
“The Holy Bible and the Church Fathers encourage us to become persons, not individuals. Only then we can be in the likeness of the Holy...
Sacramental Understanding and Living
“…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...
Peace
“…we believe that this word of peace enters into the violence of history not as an idea but as a Person….The pervasive, cosmic peace we...
Asceticism
“There is a kind of moral person with a passion for cleanliness, who runs to confession because for him any little spot is unbearable,...
Trust
“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...
Perception
“We have within us the beginning of the Divine—the ability to recognize the uncreated God, sensing His presence in our lives and trusting...
Cross
“The Cross is not so much something we did to Jesus as it is something He did for us. It is voluntary. It is revelatory. The Cross makes...