SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“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...

“What does it mean to be “called”? It is striking that the same Greek word and its derivatives are used throughout the passage. The Greek...

“Facts are those things that are objectively verifiable—the boiling point of water, the diameter of the Earth, and so on. But even though...

“Stillness of the heart is the practice of quieting yourself to such a degree that you can finally come to hear the voice of God clearly...

“The evangelist tells us, “He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the town” (Mk 8:23). The town represents the security...

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

“And it is very characteristic that the words symvolon (‘symbol’) and diavolos (‘devil,’ literally ‘slanderer’) have a common root in the...

“We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into...

“That the soul is superior to the body is an assumption based in Hellenistic philosophy and is a bit dualistic as the bible presents...

“From a lack of contentment comes death…What we see in the Garden is paradise. A place of intimate and immediate communion with God,...