SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“… it also deserves to be pointed out that the first words of Jesus to have been written down anywhere (as far as we know) were not the...

“The Fathers of the Church tell us to hate the sin, not the sinner. They tell us to refuse to sin ourselves, and to understand that the...

“Too often, those seeking to “salvage” the Scriptures—motivated by our modern disapproval of violence, particularly when it affects...

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

“Our roots, our heritage, and our life experiences shape us, for in them, as in every aspect of the created order, the hand of the Lord...

“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...

“To think in a sacramental way about the world basically means two things. Primarily, it means to see the physical and spiritual as...

“A false Eden represents a significant theme in the Scriptures—the attempt by human beings to make for themselves that which God had...

“In short, the Old Testament recounts the works of Christ before His incarnation as a man, while the New Testament recounts the works of...