Shame
“Shame, I think, is the broader name for the energy of the soul that senses our proper limits in our relationships with God and man in...
Lent
“The first evidence of Great Lent is found in the Paschal Letter 2 of Athanasius the Great (297- 372), Patriarch of Alexandria, dated to...
Spiritual Warfare
“So, attention is the central point of spiritual warfare, the focus of Christian life, the criterion and measure of salvation of the...
Identity
“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...
Jesus Prayer
“If I sit down to say the Jesus Prayer [Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner] I will very quickly have certain kinds...
Grace (Willingness to Receive)
“All the Christians of St. John’s time, by “receiving of His fullness,” the “grace for grace,” actually shared in what the Logos...
Enemies
“To love persons is not to love their crimes. To love a human is to love a creature of God; to love crimes is to pursue the inventions of...
Self-Centeredness
“It would seem that we are back to the very beginning with the serpent in Eden—the first Gnostic?—whispering that God is not a good God...
Gospel/Good News
“The meaning of the Gospel is revealed to us precisely when we try to fulfill it. Since it’s mostly just distracted reading for us, it...
Kenosis (Self-Emptying)
“In Christian theology Jesus Christ is said to be the perfect human. This is partly why we are called to imitate him (1 Cor 11:1) if we...