SACRAMENTAL LIVING

“It was said to mankind in the person of Adam: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread (Gen. 3:19). Any work that we do every day,...

“…views modern man as an ‘achievement-subject’ where personal identity and self-worth is not related to relationships, duties, spiritual...

“…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...

“The distinction between things that are Caesar's and things that are God's does not imply the division of a believer's life into the...

“Over and over again, St. John emphasizes that because Jesus Christ is the God-man, He reveals most perfectly what God is like and what...

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

“Divine awe has nothing to do with trepidation – by which I mean, not the tremulousness induced by joy, but the trepidation induced by...

“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...

“No one forces us to choose today between idolatry and faithfulness, but we so often freely worship false gods when we ground the meaning...

“Ultimately, none of us are defined by our past, but rather we are defined by what we become in Christ. This is why we can declare...