SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“Those who stop short of love, hindered by legalism, miss the message of the cross…Legalism does not understand the nature of divine...

“...all introspection is in one respect misleading. In introspection we try to look “inside ourselves” and see what is going on. But...

“Perhaps the most salient aspect of the sacramental life is something that has almost been forgotten within contemporary...

“Our first encounter with Him is through faith. Faith opens the door of the soul, so that Christ can enter. Faith receives Him, subjects...

“ ‘Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you,...

“…humanity was created immortal and incorruptible, though not inherently immortal and self-sustaining (only God is so). Humanity is...

“God is not just Father of the divine Word, but stepfather to all who are baptized. God is not just a friend in Christ, but the...

" '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...

“By holding on so tightly to our sense of self, we choked God, strangling him, and put him to death. ‘But,’ you might ask, ‘can God die?’...

“There is within every human person gold and silver and mud and dross. Life in this age has been given to us for repentance and the...