SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“Although it is not readily apparent, we experience disappointments and hardships first as shame. It is only after the experience of...

“It is insistence on the individualistic mode of the created that constitutes ‘evil’ and freedom from this mode, self-transcendence in...

“To be a father means to have a child, and at the same time, to be a son means to have a father. Each term needs the other to have...

“In times of adversity, we can find solace in the words of St. Isaac the Syrian. He wrote, “In love did He bring the world into...

“On each day of creation, God sees that what He has created is good. Only after God creates humans does God proclaim His creation to be...

“… man has a capacity (in incapacity) for faith. Thanks to his ekstatic personhood man confronts nothingness not as a sort of acceptable...

Quotes of the Day for September 22, 2023 – Thoughts on the danger of misguided piety “You will surely say this proverb to Me, ‘Physician,...

“The normal mode of “seeing” in our daily world can be called “objective.” We see things as objects, and nothing more. Indeed, we see...

“…the most paradoxical thing that lies in the fact of freedom is that man cannot “free himself” from it—if he wanted to do so—unless he...

“Many societies have pushed against their boundaries. France and Germany notoriously battled over what, exactly, was to constitute their...