SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“So, attention is the central point of spiritual warfare, the focus of Christian life, the criterion and measure of salvation of the...

“The meaning of the Gospel is revealed to us precisely when we try to fulfill it. Since it’s mostly just distracted reading for us, it...

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

“Who hasn’t experienced that indescribable sweet inner pleasure that our heart feels when we manage, with God’s aid, to help another get...

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

“What is spiritual renewal? It is when you are no longer weighed down by the burden of past traumas and mistakes, your present is filled...

“…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...

“Christian witness is not just supplying material needs. It is supplying all human needs: material needs as well as consolation,...

“In literature and in art, we call the inversion of two elements a “chiasm,” from the Greek letter Chi (Χ) that can be physically traced...

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