Discipline
“I will tell you a true story. When I was a deacon many years ago, we met for daily matins at 6:00 am every day. We had a young man in...
Knowing God
“Perhaps the most salient aspect of the sacramental life is something that has almost been forgotten within contemporary...
Attachments
" 'In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all of own possessions' (Luke 10:33). The...
Spiritual Disease
“Self-importance, according to St. Basil, is a spiritual disease that “matures,” that gets stronger over time. It is a disease that...
Repentance
“…repentance does not fundamentally mean to feel guilty about our past sins, nor even merely to cease from sinning in the future....
Doing Good
“In our spiritual life, only seldom do we experience immediate consequences for our actions. Very, very, seldom do I pray and see an...
Tension
“As Christians, we live in the tension of the already and the not yet. Already Christ is risen, and death is conquered; not yet do we...
Questions (Wrong Questions)
“Christ promises to be present and make Himself known to us. When we spend time with each other, developing our relationship, we no...
Thoughts and Feelings
“The abstraction that we call “thinking,” etc., in the contemporary world is a diminishment of what it means to be human. We have learned...
Self
“The story of ‘the Fall’ is the story of human self-will: we like to do what we want regardless of how our relationships or others are...