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...

“One of the most encouraging lines of the Divine Liturgy comes shortly before Holy Communion, when the priest says “The Holy Gifts for...

“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...

“So the criteria by which we are judged is our acts of love, or our lack of these acts of love. Through these acts of charity such as...

“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 the sacraments, we are not asking God to make something to be other than it is but to reveal it to be what it truly is…A problem...

“He is the all.” This verse declares the great truth of God's supreme omnipresence. He permeates everything, but also transcends...

“Christian witness is not just supplying material needs. It is supplying all human needs: material needs as well as consolation,...

“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...

“The false narrative of secularism says that religious activity is the realm of human concern with God, and the only proper realm of such...